People | DBI Lab

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Meet Our Team

Principal Investigator

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Jane E Huggins

Research Associate Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical School
Research Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering

Co-Investigators

Jian Kang, PhD

Jian Kang, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics,
University of Michigan
Jaqueline Kaufman

Jacqueline N Kaufman

Clinical Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Medical School
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Seth A Warschausky

Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Medical School
Justine Wu

Justine P Wu

Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Medical School

Research Team

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Katherine Colleran, BS

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Research Area Specialist Associate
Participant Recruitment
Monica Chupko

Monica Chupko, AA

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Volunteer
Projects and tasks: website updates, document editing, and lab support

Graduate Students

Longhao Pang

Longhao Pang

Project: Certainty Algorithm Development and Metric Derivation
 Zihui Qin

Zihui Qin

Master Student of Information Science

Undergraduate Students

Francisco Vigil

Francisco Vigil

Current project: MATLAB Library for Data Handling
Sean Vale

Sean Vale

Majoring in Electrical Engineering
Current project: P300 Classifier

Past Fellows & Graduates

Stefanie Blain-Moraes
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Michigan


Avi Dutt-Mazumder, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
University of Michigan


Ramses Eduardo Alcaide Aguirre
PhD Graduate
Dissertation: Evaluating a novel brain-computer interface and EEG biomarkers for cognitive assessment in children with cerebral palsy
Neuroscience Graduate Program
University of Michigan


Abdulrahman Aref
PhD Graduate
Dissertation: Dynamic Methods Based on Analysis of Cognitive State
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan


David Thompson
PhD Graduate
Dissertation: Unlocking Possibilities While Preserving Performance: Putting the "Interface" Back in Brain-Computer Interface by David Edward Thompson  
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan

A very heartfelt thank you to all those who have worked very hard to contribute to UMDBI Lab’s mission in the past year (2025-2026) and who are now moving on to continue to do more wonderful things for the world! Best of luck in all your future endeavors! Congratulations:
 

Raneen Awada
Hao Ran Chen
Richard Huang
Calvin Naimou