Team Members

Principal Investigator

Joseph Potkay, PhD

Research Biomedical Engineer, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System

Assistant Research Professor, ECLS Lab, Surgery, University of Michigan

Affiliate Researcher, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan

Investigator, Advanced Platform Technology Center 



Curriculum Vitae

Research Team

Engineering Staff

Michael Atie, MS

Research Project Engineer ECLS Lab, Surgery, University of Michigan 

Graduate Students

Andrew Zhang, MA

PhD Student in Biomedical Engineering 

Curriculum Vitae



Kartik Tharwani 

Masters Student in Biomedical Engineering 

Austin Cornish

Masters Student in Biomedical Engineering 


Undergraduate Students

Riya Aggarwal

Sydney Maddox

Brian Haimowitz

Jennifer Wang

Karolina  Ryszka

Eldon Xu

Not pictured:

 Hannah Matich - Engineering Technician for the Research Team

Previous Lab Members

Auldynn Chambers
Elyse Fleck, MS
Charlise Keck
Jake DeMeulemeester, MS
Emily-Mae Murtha
Lauren Wich
Lindsay Ma
Zoe Vendenberg
Melissa Beyrand
Katelyn King
Navid Shaikh, MS
Sara Staley, MS
Katy Belcher
Madison Daminato
Phil Spannagel
Mikhail Chowdhury
Emmanuel Akor, MS
 Emma DeNatale
Alex Thompson, PhD
Mike Dedecker
Jidong Tan
Alec Sunshine
Nick Nunu
Brandon Nikpreljevic 
Trevor Alberts, MS
Mandy Mai
Alexandra McCann
Andrea Vallenilla 
Kennedy Rogers 
Ahmed Abbas
Patrick Roach 
TJ Plegue
Mitchell Huffman 
Lucas Marks
Luana Silva 
Ashley Hilyard 
Kyle Kovach, MS 
Michael LaBarbera, PhD 
Michael Magnetta 
Abigail Vinson 
Sareen Shah