Principal Investigator
Dena Shahriari, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopaedics
School of Biomedical Engineering
Principal Investigator, ICORD
dena.shahriari@ubc.ca
Education and Training
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Post Doctoral Fellow at Bioelectronics Laboratory with Prof. Polina Anikeeva. Research Laboratory of Electronics; McGovern Brain Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. PhD in Macromolecular Science and Engineering
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. BS in Bioengineering
Lab Coordinator
Nadine Truter
Faculty of Medicine Multidisciplinary Research Program in Medicine Awardee
Biomedical Engineering – 2022
Graduate Students
Shahriar Shalileh
UBC Four Year Fellowship Awardee
Shahriar Shalileh completed his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering at the University of Tehran. During his masters’ thesis, he worked on single-cell mechanoelectrical analysis in cancer diagnosis. Shahriar also worked at the Royan infertility clinic, where he investigated biosensors’ application in metabolite secretions from the human zygote.
Walid Alchamma
Walid Alchamaa holds a BS in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Science and Technology and a MS in Biomedical Engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB). During his master’s, he was part of the Neuroengineering and Nanobiosensors research group, where he designed and developed a point-of-care diagnostic biosensor for cardiovascular blood biomarkers. He was also part of the Wireless Communications and Biomedical Signal Processing research group, where he worked on a biofeedback mechanism for mindfulness estimation using VR and EEG signal analysis. His current research interests include neural interfaces, smart biomaterials, and biosensors.
Medical and undergraduate Students
Kenneth Ong
BS in Behavioural Neuroscience – With Distinction – UBC
Medical Student – 2025
Adan Moallemi
Faculty of Medicine Multidisciplinary Research Program in Medicine Awardee
Biology – 2022
Alex Golab
Integrated Sciences – 2023