Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Matlab, Java, Android

KWANGHYUN SOHN

*********.****@*****.*** 801-***-**** 200 Swanton St Apt 720, Winchester, MA 01890 R & D EXPERIENCE

Cardiac Electrophysiology – diagnostics and treatments Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital 2010-Current

Developing electrical therapies that prevent life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias

Developed a smartphone cardiorespiratory monitoring system

Developed signal processing algorithms for the guidance of cardiac ablation catheter Cardiac Electrophysiology – cell/tissue/organ levels Research Assistant, University of Utah 2005-2010

Demonstrated strain-conduction velocity relationships in cardiac tissue

Studied ECG morphology using transgenic mice and cell/tissue level computer simulations

Introduced the maximal downstroke of epicardial potential as an index of electrical activity BioMEMS Graduate Assistant, University of Cincinnati 2004 Mechanical Heart Valve Research Assistant, Penn State University 2001-2003 Internal Combustion Engine Research Engineer, Hyundai Motor Company 1994-2000 Computational Fluid Dynamics Research Assistant, Postech 1992-1994 EDUCATION

Bioengineering, PhD University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 2005-2010 Electrical Engineering University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 2003-2005 Passed PhD qualifying exams

Bioengineering, MS Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 2001-2003 Mechanical Engineering, MS Postech, Pohang, South Korea 1992-1994 Physics, BS Postech, Pohang, South Korea 1987-1992 AWARDS

American Heart Association Founders Affiliate Postdoctoral Fellowship 2015-2016 Hyundai Motor Company Graduate Study Fellowship 1993-1994 SKILLS

Matlab C Cardiac Signal Processing Creativity

Java LabView Animal Experimentation Fast Learning

Android PHP Computational Simulation Responsibility 2

PUBLICATIONS

1. Sohn K, Merchant FM, Sayadi O, Puppala D, Doddamani R, Sahani A, Singh JP, Heist EK, Armoundas AA. cvrPhone, a novel point-of-care smart-phone based system for estimating the state of the cardiac and respiratory systems. Scientific Reports. Under review. 2. Sohn K, Lv W, Lee K, Galea A, Hirschman G, Barrett C, Cohen RJ, Armoundas AA. On the efficiency of the single equivalent moving dipole method to identify sites of cardiac electrical activation. Medical

& Biological Engineering & Computing. Published online: 22 January 2016. 3. Sohn K, Lv W, Lee K, Galea A, Hirschman G, Barrett C, Cohen RJ, Armoundas AA. A method to noninvasively identify cardiac bioelectrical sources. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2014 Aug;37(8):1038- 50.

4. Sohn K, Lv W, Lee K, Galea A, Hirschman G, Hayward AM, Cohen RJ, Armoundas AA. The single equivalent moving dipole model does not require spatial anatomical information to determine cardiac sources of activation. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2014 Jan;18(1):222-230. 5. Sohn K, Wende AR, Abel ED, Moreno AP, Sachse FB, Punske BB. Absence of glucose transporter 4 diminishes electrical activity of mouse hearts during hypoxia. Exp. Physiology. 2013 Mar 98(3):746- 57.

6. Sohn K, Sachse FB, Moreno AP, Ershler PR, Wende AR, Abel ED, Punske BB. The maximal downstroke of epicardial potentials as an index of electrical activity in mouse hearts. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2011 Nov;58(11):3175-83.

7. Sohn K, Punske BB, Sachse FB. Relationship between maximal upstroke velocity of transmembrane voltage and minimum time derivative of extracellular potential. Lect Not Comp Sci, 5528, 2009;505- 512.

8. McNary TG, Sohn K, Taccardi B, Sachse FB. Experimental and computational studies of strain- conduction velocity relationships in cardiac tissue. Prog Biophys Mol Biol. 2008;97:383-400. 9. Sohn K, Sutherland DR, Liang Q, Punske BB. Experimental measures of the minimum time derivative of the extracellular potentials as an index of electrical activity during metabolic and hypoxic stress. Lect Not Comp Sci, 4466, 2007;250-9.

10. Sutherland DR, Liang Q, Sohn K, Taccardi B, Punske BB. Experimental epicardial potential mapping in mouse ventricles: effects of fiber architecture. Lect Not Comp Sci. 4466, 2007;260-8. 11. Liang Q, Sohn K, Punske BB. Propagation and electrical impedance changes due to ischemia, hypoxia and reperfusion in mouse hearts. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2006;1:1560-3. 12. Sohn K, Manning KB, Fontaine AA, Tarbell JM, Deutsch S. Acoustic and visual characteristics of cavitation induced by mechanical heart valves. J Heart Valve Dis. 2005;14:551-8.

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