AMMI Lab
Advanced Materials & Medical Instruments Lab
ABOUT OUR LAB
In the AMMI Lab our main focus is to design medical instruments that would make surgeries less invasive and more accurate. Incorporation of advanced and smart materials is the key to our novel design of active medical devices. We are working side by side with doctors and surgeons to create medical technologies that would meet all of the requirements to be used in medical procedures.
Principal Investigator
Lab director Associate Professor konh@hawaii.edu 808-956-2142 2540 Dole st., Holmes Hall 305 Honolulu, HI 96822
Visiting Scholar
Summer 2020
Seong Young Ko, Associate Professor (Chonnam University, South Korea)
Current Graduate Students (MS/PhD)
Samantha Timarie Lee (MS student)
Current Undergraduate Students
Stephanie Lee
Graduate Alumni (MS/PhD)
Joshua Kinder (Summer 2025)
Rex Imanaka (Summer 2025)
Blayton Padasdao, PhD (Spring 2025) - Leeward Community College
Samuel Lafreniere, MS (Fall 2023) - Lonza
Zolboo Batsaikhan, MS (Fall 2022) - Asensus Surgical
Saeed Karimi, PhD (Spring 2022)
Zahra K. Khashei, MS (Fall 2019)
Past Undergraduate Members
2025
Hwa-Jin Kwak
Vincent Murai
2024
Justin Saragosa
Anna Kiraly
2022
Ryan Justin Padilla
Olivia Lee Sprouse
Kyle Tran
Jasmine Ponty
Christian Pak
Fall 2020
Trevor Yatomi
Margarete Nakayama
Sullivan Sliwowski
Sean Santiago
Nicole Zahar
John Cedrick Sadorra
Trystan Freitas
Spring 2020
Gabrielle Rose Baguio
Jacob Decker
Tabby Viso-Naffah
Khiem Huynh
Amy Lowe
Zarlon Lopez
Niels Isaac Daza
Connor Tribble
Summer Interns
Tanya Kari (Summer 2025)
Emi Okimoto, 'Iolani School (Summer 2024)
Tayte Sato, Kaiser High School (Summer 2024)
Malia Newberry (Summer 2024)
Christopher Pham (Summer 2023)
Antoine Gambier, CESI Ecole d’Ingénieurs, France (Summer 2018)
Alban Desmare, CESI Ecole d’Ingénieurs, France (Summer 2018)
Pauline Morin, CESI Ecole d’Ingénieurs, France (Summer 2017)
Thomas Guerin, CESI Ecole d’Ingénieurs, France (Summer 2017)
Senior Design Team
2017-18
Lansing Sugita
Jake Shirokane
Danielle Au
Dylan Apilado
Kristal Vidad
Jordan Fujimoto
Emma Kawamoto
2016-17
Sean Saito
Chad Nakaoka
Dayne Sasaki
Lauren Sumida
Matthew Barrett Wright
Taylor Mold
Wei Lun Lian
Bradley Beaurdy
Undergraduate Research Project ME499 - 2017
Dayne Sasaki
Past Members Vertically Integrated Project (VIP)
2018-19
Mai Van
Joshua Kenneth Udasco
Fall 2017
Huy Lam
George Manolakis
Spring 2017
Coleson Costales
Hongliang Lin
Zhiqiang Shi