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RÉSUMÉ

Education
Honors & Awards
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering: University of Washington
2022-present
Pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering studying brain biomechanics using MR-imaging.
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M.Eng. Mechanical Engineering: Stevens Institute of Technology

2019-2021

GPA: 4.0

M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Medical Device Engineering

  • Provost Fellowship Recipient

  • Robert Crooks Stanley Fellowship Recipient (2020-21 & 2021-22)

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B.S. Biomedical Engineering: The College of New Jersey

2015-2019

GPA: 3.85

B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the ABET accredited engineering program at The College of New Jersey.

  • Fred O. Armstrong Scholar- Biomedical Engineering

    • Award for highest GPA at time of graduation​

  • Biomedical Engineering Research Track Student

  • Honors Program Student

  • Tau Beta Pi Chapter President

  • Received General Academic Scholarship, Freshman Engineering Fund Scholarship, Tau Beta Pi Scholarship, Conrad and Melita Johnson Scholarship Endowment Fund

Full course load can be found at this link.

 

High School Diploma: Biotechnology High School

​2011 - 2015

GPA: 3.75

Biotechnology High School is ranked as the #1 high school in the state and #11 in the nation (US News and World Report 2014).  Biotech has also been recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in the year 2014 (The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program).

 

International Baccalaureate Diploma Recipient

​2013 - 2015

 

Work and Research Experience
Ph.D. Student Researcher-Department of Mechanical Engineering
(Aug. 2019-present)

Summary:

Ph.D. student researcher in Dr. Mehmet Kurt’s laboratory developing a mechanical actuator and post-processing techniques for performing magnetic resonance of the brain at 7T and other MR-compatible devices to model the human brain and develop diagnostic techniques for neurological disorders. Other responsibilities include maintenance, training, and printing jobs for lab 3-D printers, organizing laboratory social events, and maintaining data backups.

Responsibilities:

  • Writing grant proposals, academic journal articles, and conference abstracts

  • MRI Scanner Operation (Siemens Prisma 3T MRI Scanner)

  • Reviewing previous literature

  • Editing and creating CAD files for rapid prototyping

  • Training students, writing SOPs, and maintaining lab 3-D Printers

  • Coding and troubleshooting MATLAB

  • Laboratory social event chair

  • Maintaining data backups

  • Updating and maintaining the Lab Website

 
Student Research Volunteer-BMEII, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital
(March 2021-present)

Summary: Student Research Volunteer in Dr. Priti Balchandani’s laboratory in BMEII assisting with 7T MRI clinical research.

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Student Researcher-Department of Biomedical Engineering
Mentored Undergraduate Summer Experience: June-July 2017, 2018
Independent Research Track: Aug. 2017-May 2019

Summary:

Undergraduate student researcher in Dr. Brett BuSha's bioinstrumentation laboratory on a project developing, strength testing, and human testing a powered, 3-D printed orthotic exoskeleton for the human hand to augment grip and pinch strength.

Responsibilities:

  • Reviewing previous literature (student records and peer reviewed articles)

  • Editing and creating CAD files for rapid prototyping

  • Coding and troubleshooting Arduino

  • Circuitry design, bread boarding, crimping connections, and soldering

  • Strength testing robotic exoskeleton

  • Running IRB approved human trials and collecting human testing data (grip force and electromyography) using BioPac systems

  • Data/statistical analysis and presentation

  • Drafting and submitting Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) full paper (accepted for publication in conference proceedings and poster presentation, EMBC 2018)

  • Poster drafting and design

 

Student Worker- The College of New Jersey
Assistant Lab Tech- School of Engineering

(Sept. 2018- May 2019)

  • Assistant to the lab tech for the school of engineering

  • Responsibilities include assisting in machine shop and 3-D printing lab maintenance, organizing and reporting laboratory inventory, school of engineering paperwork, setting up classrooms and meetings, and moving equipment between engineering buildings.

Peer Tutor- Tutoring Center

(Aug 2016-May 2019)

  • Tutors individuals or groups in mechanics, biomechanics, physiological systems, biomedical engineering fundamentals, circuit analysis, physics 1 and 2, calculus 1 and 3, and computer science

Laboratory Supervisor- School of Engineering

(Sept. 2017- May 2019)

  • Shift supervisor for engineering building labs after-hours

  • Responsibilities include supervising students using labs, other student workers on shift, cleaning and closing labs and classrooms when building closes

Team Engineering- School of Engineering

(Sept 2016-May 2019)

  • Gives tours of the engineering facilities to prospective students, parents, and alumni

  • Talks to prospective students and their parents during open houses and accepted students days

 

Gymnastics Coach- Freehold Elite Gymnastics

July 2013 - August 2016

 

   The first summer and school year that I worked at the Freehold Gymnastics I was an assistant coach; however, since then, I have had my own groups and am a regular coach.

 

 

Assistant Teacher- Manalapan Englishtown Middle School

May 2015 - June 2015

 

For the last month of the school year of my senior year in high school, I worked at an unpaid internship as an assistant teacher in an 8th grade science classroom. I helped the 8th grade science program by converting their packets, which are pdfs, into editable word documents to make them more user-friendly to students.

  • Robert Crooks Stanley Fellowship

  • SB3C Diversity Participation Award

  • NSF GRFP Honorable Mention

  • Stevens Institute of Technology Provost Fellowship

  • Fred O. Armstrong Scholar- Biomedical Engineering

  • TCNJ Academic Scholarship

  • Conrad and Melita Johnson Scholarship Endowment Fund

  • Tau Beta Pi Scholarship

  • NASA New Jersey Space Grant Consortium Research Stipend

  • Freshman Engineering Fund Scholarship

Skills

Computer Skills

  • Experience with Arduino hardware and software

  • Experience with SolidWorks

  • Experience with Biopac systems and LabChart

  • Experience with Mimics

  • Experience with C++, MATLAB, and Mathematica

  • Experience with ANSYS static structural analysis

  • Microsoft Applications: Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Publisher, etc.

  • Apple Applications: iMovie, iPhoto, etc.

  • Google Applications: Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Forms, etc.

  • Design: Photoshop, SketchBookExpress

  • Use both Mac and PC

Lab Skills

  • 3-D Printing

  • Soldering

  • Breadboarding

  • Circuit design and analysis

  • Statics and strength of materials analysis

  • Micropipetting

  • General Chemistry Lab Techniques (ex. titrations, preparing solutions and buffers, etc.)

  • Making and pouring Agar

  • General Laboratory Techniques (ex. using lab equipment, sterile technique, etc.)

  • Gel Electrophoresis

  • Bacterial Cultivation

  • Using a compound light microscope

  • Oil immersion

  • Experience with Caenorhabditis elegans

  • Experience with Arabidopsis thaliana

  • Dissections

  • Analysis/statistical analysis of raw and processed data

  • Preparing microscope slides

Research Skills

  • Researching and understanding scientific articles

  • Maintaining a lab notebook

  • Writing up lab reports

  • Statistical analysis

Other Skills

  • Public speaking​​

  • Traditional Pencil Drawing

  • Acrylic Painting

  • Watercolor painting

  • Inking

  • Coaching Gymnastics

  • Singing

  • Set Design

  • Stage Managing

  • Acting

  • Directing

  • Costume design

  • Sewing

  • Some piano and ukulele

  • Swing dancing (leading and following)

 

 

Accomplishments/ Extracurriculars

Journal Publications

[J1]    W. Meinhold, E. Ozkaya, D. Petti, V. Rice, E. Triolo, F. Rezayaraghi, P. Kennedy, L. Fleysher, A. Hu, J. Ueda, M. Kurt. "Towards Image Guided Magnetic Resonance Elastography via Active Driver Positioning Robot," in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2022.3168494.

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[J2]      Emily Triolo, Oleksandr Khegai, Efe Ozkaya, Nicholas Rossi, Akbar Alipour, Lazar Fleysher, Priti Balchandani, Mehmet Kurt. “Design, Construction, and Implementation of an MR Elastography Actuator” Current Protocols, 2(3), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpz1.379

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[J3]      Emily R. Triolo, Brett F. BuSha “Design and Experimental Testing of a Force-Augmenting Exoskeleton for the Human Hand” Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 19(23), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-022-00997-6

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[J4]      E. Ozkaya, E. Triolo, F. Rezayaraghi, J. Abderezaei, W. Meinhold, K. Hong, A. Alipour, P. Kennedy, L. Fleysher, J. Ueda, P. Balchandani, M. Eriten, C. Johnson, Y. Yang, and M. Kurt. “Brain-Mimicking Phantom for Biomechanical Validation of Motion Sensitive MR Imaging Techniques” Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Volume 122, 2021, 104680.

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Conference Publications

[C1]    E. R. Triolo, O. Khegai, J. Veraart, A. Alipour, P. Balchandani, and M. Kurt, “How Signal-To-Noise Ratio Impacts the Apparent Stiffness Of Brain Tissue In Mr Elastography At 7T,” Proceedings of SB3C 2022, June 20-23, 2022, Poster


[C2]    ER Triolo†, O Khegai†, J Veraart, A Alipour, T Hedden, M Kurt*, P Balchandani*, “Parameter Optimization for High-Resolution MR Elastography of the Human Brain at 7T,” Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB, May 7-12, 2022, Virtual Poster & MRE Study Group Invited Presentation (†co-first author, *co-last author)


[C3]    E.R. Triolo, A. Alipour, O. Khegai, P. Balchandani, and M. Kurt, “Multifrequency Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) at 7T,” Proceedings of the 10th Annual BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute Symposium 2022, April 27-28, 2022, Poster

 

[C4]     E. R. Triolo, O. Khegai, A. Alipour, P. Kennedy, P. Balchandani, and M. Kurt, “Validation and testing of 7T MR elastography sequence and stiffness reconstruction,” Proceedings of BMES Annual Meeting 2021, Oct 6-9, 2021, Virtual Poster

 

[C5]     E. Triolo, A. Pionteck, A. Alipour, O. Khegai, P. Kennedy, P. Balchandani, and M. Kurt. “Development and Validation of an Ultra-High Field Compatible MR Elastography Actuator”, Proceedings of SB3C 2021, June 14-18, 2021, Virtual Podium Presentation

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[C6]     E. Triolo, T. Detroux, J. Abderezaei, Y. Yang, M. Kurt, “Nonlinear Dynamics of a Brain-Mimicking Phantom Under MR Imaging”, BMES, OCT 14-17th 2020, Virtual

 

[C7]     E.R. Triolo*, E. Ozkaya*, K. Hong, L. Fleysher, P. Kennedy, Y. Yang, and M. Kurt. “A novel MRI setup for validation of Amplified MRI via Intrinsic actuation of tissue-mimicking phantoms,” Proceedings of BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute Conference, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC, NY, 2020. (conference postponed)

 

[C8]     E. Ozkaya, V. Rice, N. Rossi, J. Abderezaei, E. Triolo, L. Fleysher, P. Kennedy, Y. Yang, and M. Kurt. “A novel MRI phantom test setup for validation of mechanical imaging techniques via tissue mimicking phantoms,” Proceedings of Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference, Abstract #548, Vail, CO, June 17-21, 2020.

 

[C9]     E.R. Triolo, M.H. Stella and B.F. BuSha, “A force augmenting exoskeleton for the human hand designed for pinching and grasping,” Proceedings of Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Honolulu, HI, July 17-21, 2018.

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College Activities

  • Tau Beta Pi Member (Fall 2017-present), President (Spring 2018-Spring 2019)

  • Swing Dance Club Member (Fall 2015-Spring 2019), Secretary (Spring 2018-Spring 2019)

  • All College Theatre- House Manager/Assistant Set Designer for As You Like It, Assistant Stage Manager for A Murder Most Foul, Assistant Set Designer for Stop Kiss, Lead Set Designer for A Secret in the Wings, Assistant Production Manager for A Killing in King Arthur's Court, Assistant Costume Designer for Medea, Stage Manager for Room 216, Assistant Carpenter for Twelfth Night, Hair and Makeup Designer for Top Shelf, Assistant Set Designer for She Kills Monsters, Assistant Carpenter for Into The Woods, Stage Manager for There Shall be no Bottom.

  • IEEE and BMES Member (Fall 2015-present)

  • Golden Key Honors Society Member (Winter 2016-present)​

 

High School Activities

  • 2013 and 2014 Jersey Shore Science Fair Health and Medicine Honorable Mention

  • Actor (2012-present), Assistant costume designer (2012-13), Head costume designer (2013-14), and Director (2014-15) of school plays

  • Competitive gymnast (2011-2015)

  • Special Olympics Bowling Volunteer (2011-12, 2014)

  • President of GLOW Club (2014-15)

  • Co-Drama Chair of Arts and Entertainment Club (2014-15)​

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