The Pioneer Podcast

In this episode, we interview Dr. Cristi Bell-Huff, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Cristi Bell-Huff shares her story,  how she got to Georgia Tech, what she does at Georgia Tech, and some advice on being a good engineer. Dr. Cristi Bell-Huff is also the recipient of the 2020 KEEN Rising Star Award. This is awarded by the Kern Family Foundation to recognize individuals who have gone above and beyond to equip undergraduate engineers to create personal, economic, and societal value through the entrepreneurial mindset.  Want to know more? Listen in to this episode!

In this episode, Student Life - Life of a BME Student: Destiny Pennington, First-Year BME Student, we interview Destiny Pennington, a first-year BME student at Georgia Tech. Learn about Destiny’s journey to Georgia Tech, passion for BME and animal prosthetics, and advice on some ways you can succeed in your academic career!"

In this episode, join us for a talk with Dr. Gari Clifford, the Chair of Biomedical Informatics at Emory University School of Medicine. Learn about Dr. Clifford's life story and journey from England to Atlanta, and the work that he's done in signal processing, and making open source data more accessible in biology.

In the episode, we start a three-part series about Georgia Tech student experiences in co-ops at different companies. In Part 1, Cassie McIltrot talks with Caitlyn Beals about her experience as a Research and Development Co-op at MedShape, Inc. Caitlyn talks about job searching, utilizing CareerBuzz, and the skills she's learned while at MedShape, Inc.

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Wendy Newstetter, Director of Learning Sciences Research College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. We converse about her involvement in the biomedical engineering curriculum, her research on understanding cognition and learning, and her work with "Service Learn and Sustain", a campus academic initiative aimed to create sustainable communities through interdisciplinary courses and programs. 

Covance is a subsidiary company under LabCorp and it is a contract research organization that is hired by pharmaceutical and medical device companies to do the fundamental back-end research for life-saving drugs and devices. Today, we talk to Aileen Ondrako, a recruiter from Covance, to learn more about the company. 

Dr. Susan Margulies is Georgia Tech's Biomedical Engineering Department Chair. In this episode, we talk about her life before Tech, what research interests she has, and what her goals are for the department. 

Jonathan Camargo is a Ph.D. student in the EPIC lab which stands for Exoskeleton and Prosthetic Intelligence Controls. It is a research lab that is a part of the Woodruff School of Engineering. The lab is led by a mechanical engineering assistant professor, Dr. Aaron Young. Camargo is a Fulbright Scholar who works with the development of lower limb power prosthetics, using electromyography (or EMG) signals and mechanical sensors for user intent recognition. He develops control systems that reliably incorporate the user loop for better accuracy and proprioception. Camargo is now a published researcher. One article, in which he co-authored with Dr. Young, is titled, “Feature Selection and Non-Linear Classifiers: Effects on Simultaneous Motion Recognition in Upper Limb.” He outlines a study that [quote] “serves to improve the feature and algorithm selection for surface and EMG signals in the classification of simultaneous motions generating a viable approach in the recognition of combinations actions from the upper limb”. 

Welcome to the first episode of The Pioneer Podcast! In this podcast, Brianna Milks interviews David Wu, CEO of Motus Nova, about his experience and his future goals for the company. Motus Nova is a startup company that aims to revolutionize rehabilitation for stroke survivors. To see more information about this company, check out https://motusathome.com/. To see past articles and information about other podcasts, check out https://thepioneer.gatech.edu/.