Mock Ong Lab People

Keat Ghee Ong joined the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact at the University of Oregon in August 2019 as a professor. Prior to that, he was the Portage Health Foundation Endowed Professor and Associate Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Michigan Technological University. Ong received his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2000 from the University of Kentucky.

Keat Ghee Ong has an internationally recognized research program in the areas of implantable sensors, wireless sensors, and magnetoelastic materials. He was involved in the development and implementation of a number of wireless sensor technologies including the magnetoelastic resonance sensors and inductive-capacitive resonance circuit sensors for biomedical applications. Currently, Ong focuses on the development of “smart implants”, which are based on wireless sensor/actuator platforms that not only can monitor physiological conditions in real-time but also react and adapt to changes for improving treatment outcomes. Ong has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, most of them in engineering-oriented journals such as IEEE Sensors and Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Ong’s research activities are supported by a number of federal agencies, organizations, and industrial partners such as the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, Department of Defense, etc.

Salil is a Research Associate in the Ong Lab at the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact.  He is also the Chief Scientist of a biotech startup company, Penderia Technologies Inc. Karipott received his PhD in 2019 and MS in 2017 from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Michigan Technological University.

Salil Karipott’s research focuses on developing wireless sensors and actuators in biomedical implants. He has developed inductive-capacitive sensors and magnetoelastic actuators for improving the treatment outcomes of orthopedic injuries.

Mike McGeehan is a postdoctoral scholar in the Ong Lab at the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact. He completed his PhD in 2020 under the mentorship of Dr. Mike Hahn in the University of Oregon Neuromechanics Laboratory. His PhD research focused on the development and use of computational models and simulations to optimize design parameters of a novel foot-ankle prosthesis.

Mike joined the Ong Lab in January of 2021 and is working toward developing wireless sensors with orthopedic applications. Specifically, he is developing a suite of sensors for monitoring the mechanical and physiological environment inside a prosthetic socket with the goal of improving residual limb health among individuals with lower limb amputation. 

B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Addis Ababa University

M.S. Biomedical Engineering, Michigan Tech

Eyerusalem joined the Ong Lab in the Spring of 2021. Her research is focused on the development of a bone fixation device the can provide fluid shear force to accelerate regeneration in critical size defects.

Funding: Department of Defense, Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Program

Bachelor of Physical Therapy, HNB University, Garhwal, India, 2014

M.S. Kinesiology, UT Austin, 2021

Suhana joined Ong Lab at the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, as a graduate student in Spring 2023. Suhana has also worked as a Physical Therapist in various clinical set-ups in India, and as a Research Coordinator at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her PhD research focuses on developing a shear force sensor that has the potential to be used for various clinical applications.

B.S in Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah,  2020, Specialty in biological response of lower-limb prosthetic interface.

M.S in Biomedical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2022, Specialty in dynamic stability assessment and gait analysis. 

Yu is currently working with Mike and Eyerusalem. In his free time, Yu likes to take his dog Momo out to explore different dog parks and ride their motorcycle to the coast.