Alumni News
Professor Benjamín Castañeda ’09
Throughout his career, Professor Benjamín Castañeda ’09 (PhD EE - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) has focused on bringing medical technology to people who would otherwise not have access.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he formed a team to rapidly design and manufacture hundreds of ventilators to support critically ill patients in Peru. Today, he leads collaborators from the Hajim School, URMC, and Johns Hopkins in efforts to augment biomedical ultrasound technology with photogrammetry and artificial intelligence techniques to bring prenatal and breast-cancer imaging to millions of women in rural areas.
Ben joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the fall after an accomplished stint at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), one of the country’s most prestigious universities. Already, he established a new three-year collaborative research agreement between Rochester and PUCP to advance the ultrasound project and promote exchanges of faculty as well as undergraduate and graduate students.
Read about Ben’s impactful work and fascinating career arc at the News Center
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