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Leadership & Staff

  • Hossein Alizadeh

    Technical Director

  • Thomas Bifano

    Center Director, VPR ad interim, Professor (BME, ECE, ME, MSE)

  • Cara Ellis McCarthy

    Executive Director

  • Meghan Foley

    Assistant Director of Finance & Administration

  • Danny Giancioppo

    Communications Manager

  • Maria Harlow

    Associate Director of Administration, ERC

  • Brenda Hugot

    Associate Director of Summer Programs & Outreach

  • Nozomi Ito

    Associate Director of Grants Administration

  • Paul Mak
    Paul Mak

    Laboratory Manager

  • Beth Mathisen

    Assistant Director BIC, Grants, Events & Initiatives

  • Alexey Nikiforov

    Laboratory Manager

  • Kelly Peña

    Multimedia Manager

  • Sandra Rodegher

    Associate Director of Convergence and Workforce Planning

  • Arthur Shih

    Laboratory Manager

  • Melinda Shockley

    Director of Faculty Entrepreneurship

  • Lisa Tanrikulu

    Administrative Coordinator, ERC

  • Joseph Walker

    Manager of Operations & Technical Programs


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  • Charlie Johnson

    Media Assistant

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