{"id":1445,"date":"2026-08-03T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/people\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:32:29","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Director<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2026\/08\/aybozkur.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Alper Bozkurt\" style=\"max-width:100px;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:10px;border-radius:6px\">Dr. Alper Bozkurt &#8212; Principle Investigator<\/p>\n<h2>Research Staff<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2026\/08\/assist-6946-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. James Dieffenderfer\" style=\"max-width:100px;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:10px;border-radius:6px\">Dr. James Dieffenderfer &#8212; Research Assistant Professor<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2026\/08\/assist-6716-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Tahmid Latif\" style=\"max-width:100px;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:10px;border-radius:6px\">Dr. Tahmid Latif &#8212; Postdoctoral Research Scholar &#8212; tlatif@ncsu.edu<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2026\/08\/assist-6808-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Parvez Ahmmed\" style=\"max-width:100px;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:10px;border-radius:6px\">Dr. Parvez Ahmmed &#8212; Postdoctoral Research Scholar &#8212; pahmmed@ncsu.edu<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2026\/08\/JReynoldsHeadSm-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. James Reynolds\" style=\"max-width:100px;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:10px;border-radius:6px\">Dr. James Reynolds &#8212; Postdoctoral Research Scholar &#8212; jlreyno4@ncsu.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Current PhD Students<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Timothy Holder &#8212; PhD Student (Biomedical Engineering) &#8212; trholde2@ncsu.edu<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2026\/08\/assist-6647-edit-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Tanner Songkakul\" style=\"max-width:100px;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:10px;border-radius:6px\">Tanner Songkakul &#8212; PhD Student (Electrical Engineering) &#8212; tpsongka@ncsu.edu<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2026\/08\/assist-6891-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Evan Williams\" style=\"max-width:100px;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:10px;border-radius:6px\">Evan Williams &#8212; PhD Student (Electrical Engineering) &#8212; ewillia7@ncsu.edu<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2026\/08\/Caleb-Readling-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Caleb Readling\" style=\"max-width:100px;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:10px;border-radius:6px\">Caleb Readling &#8212; PhD Student (Electrical Engineering) &#8212; cmreadli@ncsu.edu<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2026\/08\/Devon-Martin-2.jpg\" alt=\"Devon Martin\" style=\"max-width:100px;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:10px;border-radius:6px\">Devon Martin &#8212; PhD Student (Electrical Engineering) &#8212; dmarti22@ncsu.edu<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2026\/08\/Brendan-Thompson-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Brendan Thompson\" style=\"max-width:100px;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:10px;border-radius:6px\">Brendan Thompson &#8212; PhD Student (Electrical Engineering) &#8212; bjthomp2@ncsu.edu<\/li>\n<li>Colt Nichols &#8212; PhD Student (Electrical Engineering) &#8212; cwnicho2@ncsu.edu<\/li>\n<li>Maxwell Noonan &#8212; PhD Student (Electrical Engineering) &#8212; mnoonan2@ncsu.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Current Undergrads<\/h2>\n<p>Samed Idil, Tejas Kakade, Trevor Howard, Aravind Venkatraman<\/p>\n<h2>Lab Alumni<\/h2>\n<h3>PhD Alumni<\/h3>\n<p>Rita Brugarolas, Tahmid Latif, James Dieffenderfer, Jose Sarmiento, Michael McKnight, Talha Agcayazi, Peter Sotory, Marc Foster, Parvez Ahmmed, James Reynolds<\/p>\n<h3>MSc Alumni<\/h3>\n<p>Feiyan Lin, Amey Desphande, Suprio Bhattacharya, Rochana Jayakumar, Ryan Pilgrim, Tristan Novak, Naved Khwaja, Alex Verderber, Katherine Walker, Kaustubh Chaudhari, Eric Beppler, Charles Hood, Hannah Kausche, Rochana Jayakumar, Katherine Walker, Henry Goodell<\/p>\n<h3>BSc Alumni<\/h3>\n<p>Eric Whitmire, Carlos Andrade, Chance Bair, Michael McKnight, Spencer Farris, Stephen Groner, Ahmed Samara, Josh Giron, Zane Smith, Ashley Ebright, Daniel Harrison, Vijay Thiagarajan, Eric Beppler, Rochana Jayakumar, Katherine Walker, Brinnae Bent, Juan Marin, Nathan Hansen, Kushal Patel, Madison Kitchen, Hannah Kausche, Inan Husain (visiting from Berkeley EECS), Kevin Keller, Samuel Holden, Christina Burnham, Bailey Blankenship, Max Gordon, Rachel White, Tanya Mittal, Chadwick Gilligan, Charles Hood, Joseph Tullos, Shatorupa Ghosh, Akshay Paruchuri, Taylor Patrick, Cameron Coleal, Anna Ahlers, McKenzy Heavlin, Morgan Tinkler, Stephanie Eberly, Brendan Thompson, Talha Basturk, Samed Idil, Sarah Sylvestre, Andy Dinh, Akshay Paruchuri, Steven Diniz, Wen Walsh, Batu Palanduz, Vinitha Ravindran, Shane Dubbs, Robert Capaldo, Emily Summers, Jethro Adedeji, Riley Pratt, Tyler Foland, Alice Kligerman, Jethro Adedeji, Shannon Pinell, Brendan Thompson, Jack Sabine, Josh Wilson, Mehmet Fidan, Erika Wood<\/p>\n<h3>High School Volunteers<\/h3>\n<p>Will Caffey, Juan Marin, Ian Taylor, Bryan Fennell, John Fitzpartick, Deanyone Su, Tanya Mittal, Nuran Golbasi, Mehmet Hatip, Ali Khosraviani, Mehmet Fidan, Shatorupa Ghosh, Rishi Reddy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Dr. Alper Bozkurt &#8212; Principle Investigator Research Staff Dr. James Dieffenderfer &#8212; Research Assistant Professor Dr. Tahmid Latif &#8212; Postdoctoral Research Scholar &#8212; tlatif@ncsu.edu Dr. Parvez Ahmmed &#8212; Postdoctoral Research Scholar &#8212; pahmmed@ncsu.edu Dr. James Reynolds &#8212; Postdoctoral Research Scholar &#8212; jlreyno4@ncsu.edu Current PhD Students Timothy Holder &#8212; PhD Student (Biomedical Engineering) &#8212; trholde2@ncsu.edu&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1445","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1445\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/ibionics26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}