Jun Isobe

Graduate Student Researcher
Department of Bioengineering
Biomedical Engineering IDP
University of California, Los Angeles

Jun is a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering. His research interests include biological-mechanical hybrid systems, and emergence of inter-scale effects. His career interests are in technology management in medical and aerospace industries, and increasing the influence of scientific research in politics and public policy. He is fluent in Japanese. In his free time, Jun enjoys following the UCLA football team, playing a variety of muscal instruments, playing hockey, and cooking. He also assists his father in landscaping Japanese gardens.

• Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, (in progress)
• M.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, December 2004
• B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, June 1998

• Towards a functional electrical stimulation system to treat strabismus. (UCLA, Present)
• Simulation of action potential generation and propagation in a network of artificial excitable vesicles. (UCLA, 2005)
• Reducing cyclic stresses on helicopter rotor blades due to dynamic lift. (UCLA, 1997)

• Product Manager
  Honeywell Airframe Systems, Defense and Space Group
  Honeywell International, Inc., Torrance, CA (December 2000 –- August 2002)
  Managed product improvement and maintenance programs for the Pump Package Assembly (PPA) product line aboard NASA’s International Space Station (ISS). The PPA manages all internal thermal conditions for the ISS. Responsibilities included coordination of in-house engineering effort, coordination with NASA, and daily on-orbit status monitoring.
• Consultant/Translator
  Irell & Manella, Intellectual Property Division
  Irell & Manella, LLP, Century City, CA (May 2002 – December 2005)
  Worked part-time for a law firm translating and consulting on Japanese technology patents in the entertainment industry. The position required knowledge of the Japanese language as well engineering. In one example, there was a patent-infringement case regarding the feedback loop in the vibration system of Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox video game hand-held controllers.
• Project Engineer
  Honeywell Airframe Systems, Defense and Space Group
  Honeywell International, Inc., Torrance, CA (December 1999 –- November 2000)
  Oversaw technical and process issues for the Internal Thermal Control System (ITCS) aboard NASA’s International Space Station. The ITCS includes components such as the Pump Package Assembly and the Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly. Other tasks also included writing of new government proposals such as an Inflatable Airlock, and the Mechanical Counter-Pressure (MCP) space suit. The Inflatable Airlock was awarded funding by NASA for use in the next-generation Space Shuttle. The MCP suit was essentially a leotard that can be worn in place of the currently used pressurized space suit. We proposed to design a suit for use on the surface of Mars.
• Systems Analyst
  AlliedSignal Aerospace
  AlliedSignal Inc. Torrance, CA/Phoenix, AZ (July 1998 –- December 1999)
  Designed environmental control systems (ECS) for military and commercial aircraft, aircraft ground support equipment, ground-troop protection systems, M1A2 Main Battle Tank, and other related applications. The work generally involved computer simulation to design a system and scale certain components using steady-state thermodynamics. Functional testing of the ECS in the M1A2 was conducted in the Yuma, AZ Army Proving Grounds.

• BME CM202 - Human Anatomy for Biomedical Engineers
• BME CM203 - Human Cell Biology for Biomedical Engineers
• BME CM280 - Introduction to Biomaterials
• BME C285 - Introduction to Tissue Engineering
• Biomath 206 - Mathematical Simulation in Oncology
• Biomath 208A- Neurobiological Simulation
• BME 298 - Mathematical Modeling in Biomedical Engineering
• BME 298 - Human Molecular Cell Biology
• BME 298 - Biomaterials Laboratory
• BME 298 - Thermodynamics in Biological Environments

• Velez F, Isobe J, Zealear DL, Judy J, Edgerton VR, Patnode S, Lee H, Hahn BT, Rosenbaum AL. Towards an implantable functional electrical stimulation (FES) device to correct strabismus: Feline model. JAAPOS, Vol 13(3), June 2009, pp 229-235. http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/ympa/article/PIIS1091853108003558/abstract
• Isobe J, Velez F, Lee H, Patnode S, Judy J, Rosenbaum A. In vivo functional electrical stimulation of feline lateral rectus: Relationship between stimulation parameters and eye rotation in denervated muscle. Artificial Organs, Vol 81(2), August 2007, pp A2-3. ISSN 0160-564X.paper
• Isobe J, Qu Z, Patti J, Wendell D, Choi H, Montemagno C. “Preliminary studies on the effect of size on the action potential of an excitable vesicle,” WSEAS Trans. on Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, Feb 2006, pp. 347-52. ISSN:1109-2777. pdf

• Isobe J, Velez FG, Lee H, Rosenbaum AL, Judy JW. Towards an implantable FES device to correct strabismus: Artificially-denervated feline lateral rectus. 9th Vienna International Workshop on Functional Electrical Stimulation, September 2007, Vienna, Austria. (Oral Presentation)
• Velez FG, Isobe J, Lee H, Patnode S, Judy JW, Rosenbaum AL. In-vivo functional electrical stimulation of feline lateral rectus muscle: Relationship between stimulation parameters and eye movement in normal muscle. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, May 2007, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. (Oral Presentation)
• Isobe J, Lee H, Velez FG, Patnode S, Clevenger, J, Judy, JW., Rosenbaum, A.L. In-vivo functional electrical stimulation of feline lateral rectus: Relationship between stimulation parameters and eye movement in normal muscle. UCLA Electrical Engineering Department Annual Research Review 2007, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. February 2007. (Poster)
• Isobe J, Lee H, Velez F, Rosenbaum A, Judy J. Functional electrical stimulation of innervated and denervated ocular muscles. Brain Research Institute 8th Annual Neuroscience Poster Session, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. November 2006. (Poster)
• Isobe J. Complexity of life and how everything is the same. Biomedical Engineering 298-2: Mathematical Model Development in Biology and Medicine, Instructor: Lilit Yeghiazarian, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. May 2006. (Guest Lecturer)
• Isobe J. A bottom-up approach in neuroscience. Psychology 305: Cognitive Psychology, Instructor: Eve Isham, California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), USA. May 2006. (Guest Lecturer)
• Isobe, J. Preliminary studies on excitable vesicles. 4th WSEAS International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Man-Machine Systems, and Cybernetics, Miami, Florida, USA, November 2005. (Invited Speaker)
• Patti J, Isobe J, Choi H, Wendell D, Montemagno, CD. Excitable vesicles: Engineering an action potential in a minimal system. Biophysical Society 49th Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, USA, February 2005. (Poster)
• Isobe J, Qu Z, and Montemagno CD. Mathematical simulation of an engineered nanoscale excitable vesicle. Trends in Nanotechnology 2004, Segovia, Spain, September 2004. (Poster)

• Apparatus and Method for Measuring Mass in a Micro-gravity Environment
  Filing Date: April 23, 2002
  Filed by: Honeywell International, Inc.
  Invented by: Jun Isobe, Al MacKnight, and Vipul Patel
  This device and method of measuring mass was invented to address the need to detect amounts of fluid in a tank in orbit. It utilizes harmonic resonant frequencies to infer the amount of mass in a tank.

  
  

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