Category Archives: Team

New Member Meherin Tasfia Joins in August 2026!

A lot of things have changed since our last update! We’re excited to share that we recently welcomed a new graduate student to the lab. Meherin Tasfia, who joined at the start of August! She will be taking over the entotic cells project.

We hope they feel welcomed to the lab, and we’re looking forward to all that’s to come

New Members Julia Ehnot May 2026!

We’re excited to share that we recently welcomed new undergrad to the lab. We’re happy to introduce our newest undergrad, Julia Ehnot, who joined in May 2026 and is now helping out Bayan and Rae in the EEG lab.

We hope she enjoys working with us!

Welcoming Quintin to the Signals Lab!

Quintin will be taking over the project in Advanced In-Process Inspection (IPI) of internally machined features using miniature confocal chromatic sensors

January 5, 2025

Welcoming Rae and Eli to the Signals Lab!

Rae will join our lab’s EEG based projects.
Eli will work on medical image processing and machine learning based projects.

Looking for Graduate Students!

The SIGNALS Lab always seeks motivated and hard-working graduate and undergraduate engineering students.
International students should satisfy the TOEFL exam requirement, which is defined by the University of Akron.

Please contact Dr. Barkana for more information at bbarkana@uakron.edu.

Dr. Barkana joined the Editorial Staff of The Ohio Journal of Science as an Associate Editor. (February 2024)

Kaden Carpenter (Electrical Engineering, UG student) joins the SIGNALS Lab to work on the IPI project. Welcome Kaden! (February 2024)

Dr. Barkana has been selected to the Advisory Board for the Biotechnology Pathway track of the NIFH STEM High School, Akron, Ohio. (August 2023)

Erin Keller (Electrical Engineering, UG student) joins the SIGNALS Lab to work on the CPM-IPI project. Welcome Erin! (August 2023)

Bayan Ahmad joins the SIGNALS Lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome Bayan! (August 2023)