Alisha Menon, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

am331@rice.edu

Alisha Menon is the founder & CEO of Aurelia Vitals, a startup developing ICU-grade wearable sensors to improve in-patient recovery & outcomes while reducing nursing costs. Alisha completed her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at UC Berkeley where her research focused on intelligent biosensors for neural prosthetic applications. After graduating, she completed the NSF I-corps program and founded Aurelia Vitals. She is currently doing a post-doc at Rice University in Professor Jacob Robinson’s group where she is conducting pilot studies with the novel wearable sensors, starting in the neonatal ICU. She is the recipient of the NSF fellowship, LILIE Innovation Fellowship and Southwest Pediatric Device Consortium seed grant.