Ethan Bendau

Alumni

Academic Qualifications

Biography

Ethan was born in 1992 in Phoenix, AZ. He obtained his first bachelor's degree in French at the University of Oregon in 2013, after which he changed fields to study physics. He received his second Bachelor's in Physics at City College of New York in 2018. As an undergraduate at City College, he conducted research under Dr. Robert Alfano at the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers. He investigated the interaction of matter with laser beams carrying orbital angular momentum, as well as imaging and diagnosis of breast cancer tumors using Raman spectroscopy and multi-photon microscopy. During the summer of 2017, he also worked with Dr. Joseph Deasy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City developing improved methods of radiation therapy treatment planning for lung cancer patients. He enrolled as a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University in 2018. He is currently investigating modulation of the central nervous system using focused ultrasound.

Awards and Prizes

NSF GRFP Fellowship, 2020
Blavatnik Doctoral Fellowship, 2018

Publications

Iterative curve fitting of the bioheat transfer equation for thermocouple-based temperature estimation in vitro and in vivo

Hermes A. S. Kamimura
Christian Aurup
Ethan Bendau
Niloufar Saharkhiz
Min Gon Kim
Elias E. Konofagou

Conference abstracts and proceedings

ASA 2020: Transcranial focused ultrasound of anesthetized mice reversibly modulates cardiac and respiratory activity

Ethan Bendau
Hermes Kamimura
Christian Aurup
Elisa Konofagou