Texas Tech University

Principal Investigator 

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Jingfei Liu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Faculty in Engineers in Medicine)

Resarch focus: Medical ultrasound imaging, focused ultrasound therapy, biomechanical characterization, therapeutic transducer design, bio signal and image processing

Jingfei.Liu@ttu.edu   Google Scholar      LinkedIn        

Visiting scholar

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Hyunjo Jeong 
Visiting Professor (8/2023-now)  ultrahj77@gmail.com

Ph.D. Engineering Mechanics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
M.S.  Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 1986

 

PhD students

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Sadman H. Labib
PhD student (9/2021-now)  salabib@ttu.edu

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 2024
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh Unvierstiy of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, 2021
B.S.  Mechanical Engineering, Ahsanullah University of  Science and Technology, Bangladesh, 2016 

Research: AI guided optimization framework development for transcranial focused ultrasound (t-FUS) neuromodulation; In vivo t-FUS neuromodulation; Computational acoustics; image-guided therapeutic array transducer development; Focused ultrasound in cancer immunotherapy.

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Sanjay Mahat
PhD student (8/2022-now)  samahat@ttu.edu

M.S. Mechanical Systems Design and Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, 2019 
B.S.  Mechanical Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, 2015 

Research: Ultrasound-induced mechanical resonance for virus deactivation.

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Azin Nadi
PhD student (8/2023-now)  Azin.Nadi@ttu.edu

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran, 2021
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Birjand, Iran, 2013   
B.S.  Mechanical Engineering, Khayyam University, Iran, 2010 

Research: Ultrasonic guided wave elastography for medical diagnosis.

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Meghan Cephus
PhD student (9/2025-now) mecephus@ttu.edu

M.S. Secondary Education, New York University, 2024
B.S.  Mechanical Engineering, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 2022

Research: 3D acoustic cell patterning for bio-printing.

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S M Mahim
Ph.D.  student (8/2026-now)  smahim@ttu.edu

B.S.  Biomedical Engineering,  Islamic University, Bangladesh, 2025

Research: AI application in ultrasound elastogrpahy.

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Shakib AI Hasan
Ph.D. student (8/2026-now, Co-advised with Dr. James Yang) shalhasa@ttu.edu

B.S.  Biomedical Engineering,  Islamic University, Bangladesh, 2025

Research: In vivo wrist ligament material property characterization and biomechanics.

M.S. Students

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Ezekiel Anguiano
MS student (9/2024-now)  ezanguia@ttu.edu

B.S.  Mathematics, Texas Tech University, 2023

Research: Ultrasound nondestructive testing and evaluation of batteries.

Undergraduate Students

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Voshita Parvathaneni
Undergraduate student (1/2025-now)   vparvath@ttu.edu

Research: Acoustic health mornitoring. 

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Sergio Cantu
Undergraduate student (9/2025-now) sercantu@ttu.edu

Research: Noise reduction for spacecraft.  

Alumni

Graduate students

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Abdullah A. Masud 
PhD student, 6/2021-5/2024.
Current position: Postdoc fellow, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic                        

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Roshan Sharma
MS studnet, 8/2022-5/2024.
Current position: PhD student, University of Oklahoma.                    

 
 
 
 
 
 
Undergraduate students 

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Trenton Wise
6-12/2025                         

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Charles Vancil
6-8/2025                         

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Andrew David Geter
 1/2024-5/2025
Current: Medical studdent, the University of New Mexico School of Medicine

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Evin Timocin
 8-12/2023, 8-12/2024
Current: ??
 

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Luis Acosta
 8/2023-5/2024; 1-5/2025                                    

 
 
 
 
 
Visiting students 

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Eva Vanstavel
Graduate student, Arts et Métiers, France. 1-5/2023                        

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Samin Enam 
Undergraduate student, University Technology Malaysia. 6-9/2022