Patents
Hamed, Y., Cui, A., Roeder, G., Culpepper, M. Systems and Methods for Cutting Tissue. (U.S. Patent Application No. 63/909,949) Issuing Date November 2, 2025.
Hamed, Y., Cui, A., Roeder, G., Culpepper, M. Systems and Methods for Collecting Tissue. (U.S. Patent Application No. 63/909,948) Filed November 2, 2025.
Raman, R., Afghah, S.F. Advancing ink homogeneity in extrusion printing with active in situ mixing (U.S. Provisional Application No. 63/878,491). United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Fernandes Barros, L., Durak, T., Galanek, M. S., Lamere, E. A., Short, M. P & Wainwright, H. M. Multi-sample 252 Cf-based neutron irradiator for neutron activation analysis (U.S. Patent Application No. 63/662,317). United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Dagdeviren, C., Durak, T., Kim, J., Marcus, C. Conformable Multimodal Sensory Facemask Module. U.S. Patent Application in progress.
Conference Proceedings
Barakat, L. A., Culpepper, M. L., (2025). Impact of Introducing Technical Design Elements in Makerspace Trainings. International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces (ISAM), 2025 (82)
Margetts, A., Castro, N., Doster, W., Raman, R., and Culpepper, M.; "Flexure-based Instruments for Characterizing Artificial Skeletal Muscle Performance" Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting American Society of Precision Engineers, San Diego, November 3 – 7, 2025, pp. 477-482.
Cui, A., Hamed, Y., and Culpepper, M.; "Insights for Design of Sub-beam Waist Femtosecond Laser Ablation Systems" Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting American Society of Precision Engineers, San Diego, November 3 – 7, 2025, pp. 494-499.
Roeder, G. and Culpepper, M.; "Continuous Helical Tissue Collection for Connectomics" Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting American Society of Precision Engineers, San Diego, November 3 – 7, 2025, pp. 488-493.
Herrero-Marques, B. and Culpepper, M.; "Design Insights for a High-rate Femto-second Laser Fabrication System" Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting American Society of Precision Engineers, San Diego, November 3 – 7, 2025, pp. 483-487.
Hamed, Y., Cui, A., and Culpepper, M.; "Design and Characterization of a Femto-second Laser-based Microtome for Continuous Tissue Slicing" Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting American Society of Precision Engineers, San Diego, November 3 – 7, 2025, pp. 471-476.
Barakat, L. A., Brancazio, D., Greenfield, J. A., Culpepper, M. L., (2024). Measuring Making: Instrumenting Makerspaces. International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces (ISAM), 2024 (65)
Publications
Barakat, L. A. (2025). Impact of Introducing Technical Design Elements in Makerspace Trainings. [Master’s thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology]. DSpace@MIT. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/158817
Barakat, L. A., Culpepper, M. L., (2025). Impact of Introducing Technical Design Elements in Makerspace Trainings. International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces (ISAM), 2025 (82)
L. B. Fontana, J. Yu, M. P. Short, T. Durak, E. Lamere, M. S. Galanek, A. Safarov, H. M. Wainwright, (2025). Design and Modeling of Cf-252-Based Neutron Irradiation for NAA: MCNP6 Simulations of Dose Rate and Neutron Fluxes. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2025.111990
Zanderigo, G., Afghah, F., Colosimo, B., M. & Raman, R. (2025). Modular and AI-driven in situ monitoring platform for real-time process analysis in embedded bioprinting. Device (by Cell Press). https://www.cell.com/device/abstract/S2666-9986(25)00240-6?rss=yes&utm_medium=linkedin&utm_source=dlvr.it
Barakat, L. A., Brancazio, D., Greenfield, J. A., Culpepper, M. L., (2024). Measuring Making: Instrumenting Makerspaces. International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces (ISAM), 2024 (65)
Nin, J. A. (2024). Design, simulation, and testing of a low-cost laser micromachining system for flexible and rapid tissue-on-chip fabrication. [Master’s thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology]. DSpace@MIT. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/157161?show=full
Raman, R. (2024). Pedagogy in Bioengineering: pipettes, practice and patience. Nature Reviews of Bioengineering. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-024-00248-4
Fernandes Barros, L., Jiankai, Y., Short, M. P., Durak, T., Galanek, M. S., Lamere, E. A., Akmal, S., & Wainwright, H. M. (2024). MCNP6 Evaluation of Exposure Dose Rates from a 252Cf-Based Neutron Irradiator for NAA. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 130(1), 964-967.
Kim, J., Marcus, C., Ono, R., Sadat, D., Mirzazadeh, A., Jens, M., Fernandez, S. V., Zheng, S., Durak, T., & Dagdeviren, C. (2022). A conformable multimodal sensory facemask for decoding biological and environmental signals. Nature Electronics, 5, 794-807. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-022-00851-6
Dagdeviren, C., Durak, T., & Sadat, D. (2020). Research resiliency through lean labs. Advanced Intelligent Systems – Open Access. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aisy.202000074
Wong, L., Lamere, E., Durak, T., Galanek, M., & Leveson, N. (2020). Strengthening academic makerspace safety – Creating a system model for hazard analysis. International Journal of Academic Makerspaces and Making (IJAMM).
Durak, T. (2020). Innovation spaces: The new campus risk paradigm. In O. Kuzmina & S. Hoyle (Eds.), Challenges for Health and Safety in Higher Education and Research Organisations (pp. 304-336). London: Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781839162497
DiBerardinis, L. (2020). Health and safety considerations in design of teaching and research laboratories. In O. Kuzmina & S. Hoyle (Eds.), Challenges for Health and Safety in Higher Education and Research Organisations (pp. 288-303). London: Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781839162497
Cramer, A., Galanek, M., Gupta, R., Lamere, E., Li, J., Short, M., Tian, E., & Yu, S. (2020). Disposable N95 masks pass qualitative fit-test but have decreased filtration efficiency after Cobalt-60 gamma irradiation. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.28.20043471
