Project Magneto

Image of entire team and George Mason Advisors

From left to right: Dr. Nathalia Peixoto (Electrical & Computer Engineering Department), Bassam Mutawak, Victor Huynh, Minh Quan Do, Elizabeth Ankrah,  and Dr. Qi Wei (Bioengineering Department)

Elizabeth Ankrah 

As Testing and Evaluation Lead of the Magneto Design Team, Elizabeth is responsible for developing the procedures and metrics used to validate the functionality and efficiency of all system components to satisfy project sponsor requirements. Elizabeth also leads the development of the MRI material detection algorithm and assists with the development of the Graphic User Interface.

Elizabeth Ankrah, senior at George Mason University, is pursuing a BS in Bioengineering with a concentration in Healthcare Informatics. Over the course of her academic career, she worked in the Computational Biology lab at University of Minnesota, where she worked with machine learning algorithms for clustering of Single cell RNA sequence data sets. Her research interests include: human computer interaction , biomedical and healthcare Informatics. Following graduation, Elizabeth will be pursuing an Informatics PhD at the University of California Irvine.

Bassam Mutawak

Bassam’s role in the project is the back-end design lead. He oversees all back-end software module development as well as hardware communication and integration . He is also an active member in developing the particle translation model, front-end GUI design, and overall system evaluation.

Bassam is currently a senior at George Mason University pursuing a B.S. in Bioengineering (Biomedical Signals and Systems concentration) and a Minor in Computer Science. Bassam works as a research assistant at the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory in GMU where he develops 3D biomechanical models of the ocular plant in Java and MATLAB. Between his coursework and personal projects, Bassam has had experience in machine learning, data analytics, computer vision, signal analysis, and algorithm design. After receiving his degree, Bassam will be applying his engineering and programming background within the Department of Defense as well as pursue higher education in Computer Science.

Minh-Quan Do

Minh Quan is the systems-design lead/technical lead of this project and he is responsible for systems integration and providing feedback on the design of the individual components of the system.

He is currently a senior at George Mason University pursuing a degree in Bioengineering concentrating in pre-health and minoring in computer science. His research interests include machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, autonomous robotics, quantitative finance, and mathematics. After graduation, he intends on pursuing a master’s degree in computer science and then working as a quantitative analyst for a hedge fund or a machine learning researcher, and eventually starting his own company.  

Victor Huynh

As Project Manager of the Magneto design team, Victor is responsible overseeing team coordination and deliverables and managing communication with the project sponsors,Weinberg Medical Physics. As Front-End Lead, Victor is responsible for leading the development of the Graphical User Interface that users will interact with to control Weinberg’s magnetic control system.

Victor Huynh is currently a senior Bioengineering major at George Mason University (GMU) with a concentration in Biomedical Signals and Systems. His technical interests lie in user interface design, machine learning, and image processing for biomedical applications. Victor’s research experiences include working in the GMU Biomedical Imaging Laboratory on ultrasound prosthetic signal sensing and in the GMU Neural Engineering Laboratory on zebrafish heartbeat detection for cardiac and epilepsy research. The latter has led to co-authoring the published paper, Zebrafish larvae heartbeat detection from body deformation in low resolution and low frequency video. After his graduation in Spring 2019, Victor plans to support the Department of Defense through technical and program management work.