Department Directory

University Distinguished Professor, 

Polymeric biomaterials, drug delivery systems, nanomedical technologies

Associate Professor, 

Biomechanics, mechanobiology, biotransport

Affiliated Faculty, 

Studies how the brain regulates aging and resilience to oxidative stress in the nematode C. elegans

Lab Operationss & Safety Manager, 

Associate Professor, 

cell and tissue engineering, quantitative principles of cancer cell biology and developmental biology

Affiliated Faculty, 

Development of underwater robots for civil infrastructure and explosive sensing; neurophysiology and behavior biomimetics

Assistant Professor, 

drug delivery; bio-electrostatics; transport phenomena in biological systems; biomechanics; osteoarthritis

Professor of the Practice, 

Design Medical Implants; Medical Implant Due Diligence; Biomaterials, Biopolymers, Biomemetics, Polymer Physics; Biodegradation; Interfacial Phenomena, Chemotaxis, Accelerated Aging

Administrative Access Assistant, 

Assistant Professor, 

Diseases of the cardiovascular system; effects of cellmediated growth and remodeling processes on tissue and organ mechanics

Assistant Professor, 

polymer chemistry and engineering; biomaterials; biomedical engineering; drug delivery; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; immunotherapy; immunoengineering; vaccines

Affiliated Faculty, 

chemical biology and biotechnology; DNA replication and repair; enzyme function

Research Professor, 

Biomedical signal and image processing; medical imaging; statistical signal processing; inverse problems; electrocardiography; bio-optical imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; transcranial neuromodulation; estimation of protein conformations from Xray scattering; regularization; optimization

Affiliated Faculty, 

WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor, 

Nanomanufacturing; nano and microscale printing of sensors and electronics; nano and micro-scale defects in semiconductor manufacturing; high rate nanomanufacturing; power electronics, RF, NEMS devices and nanomaterials based nanoelectronics, flexible and hybrid electronics

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Professor, 

intestinal tissue engineering, retinal regenerative medicine, oral drug delivery

Affiliated Faculty, 

experimental biological physics; inelastic light scattering; ultrafast pump-probe laser spectroscopy; proton tunneling; quantum biology

Program Coordinator, 

Research Technician, 

Assistant Professor, 

brain cell regeneration, automated microscopy and laser surgery, user-friendly and low-cost fluorescence microscopy

Professor, 

Optical nanosensors for biological analysis

Business Manager, 

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

University Distinguished Professor, 

Polymeric biomaterials for medical products such as implantable electronic devices, hydrogel-based devices and drug delivery systems

Affiliated Faculty, 

Cell migration and mechanotransduction in C. elegans, improving production of drug compounds by medicinal plants

First-Year & Bioengineering (A-K) Academic Advisor, 

Associate Professor, 

3-D bioprinting technology, stem cells technology and vascular bioengineering

Affiliated Faculty, 

musculoskeletal disorders; work place injury prevention and health; occupational biomechanics; biomechanics of human movement

Associate Professor, 

Optics, microscopy, coherent detection, interaction of light and sound waves, hyperspectral imaging, diffusive optical tomography and ultrasound, landmine detection, magneto-optic sensors, and multi-model imaging. Activities include computer modeling, designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the resulting data

Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, 

Studying the means by which endothelial cell mechanotransduction occurs in order to prevent or promote diseases related to blood vessel dysfunction

Professor and Vice Chair of Research, 

machine learning, signal and image analytics, cyber-human systems

Assistant Professor, 

neural interfaces, biomimetic electronics, electronic materials & organisms

Associate Professor and Associate Chair For Graduate Affairs, 

Innovations in translational medical imaging devices to better diagnose cancers, low-cost point-of-care diagnostic tools to delivery life-saving medicines to the resource-poor regions, and high performance computing tools to facilitate the development of the next-generation imaging methods

Affiliated Faculty, 

magnetic resonance imaging and neurodegenerative disease

Associate Professor, 

detection of biomolecules at the nanoscale in micro and nanofluidic channels; biophysics; micro and systems biology; environmental sensing; analytical instrumentation

Research Technician, 

Research Access Assistant, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

to understand how the complex interactions between the nervous system, musculoskeletal system, and the environment affect movement control and learning in humans

Associate Professor, 

Entrepreneurship education microenvironments and their impact on the engagement of diverse populations, the influence of I-Corps on university ecosystems, and transforming BME education through instructional design

Associate Teaching Professor
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, 

Lab Technician, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Computer architecture; GPUs; heterogeneous computing; performance analysis; security and information assurance; hardware reliability and recovery; Big Data analytics; workload characterization

Affiliated Faculty, 

computational modeling of cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms from cellular to organ scales including systems biology approaches

Associate Research Scientist, 

Senior Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Single cell functional multi-omic analysis, Phenotypic drug profiling in droplet microfluidics for better targeting of drug-resistant tumors, Live single cell functional phenotyping and cell-cell communication in droplet nano-liter reactors

Assistant Professor, 

bioelectric medicine, development of novel interventions and tissue engineered platforms for nerve regeneration and repair, body-on-a-chip for enteric-gut interactions

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Associate Professor, 

Production of valuable pharmaceutical compounds from plant cell cultures, specifically the production of important anti-cancer drug molecules from cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus

Research Technician, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

virtual reality; video games; motor learning; rehabilitation; physical therapy; cerebral palsy; stroke; knowledge translation

Associate Professor, 

Systems and synthetic biology of the Brain-Immune-Gut super-system; Interactions among hosts and microbes; Deep learning approaches to interpreting biological data and designing biomedical solutions

University Distinguished Professor, 

Physical modeling of cancer progression, metastasis and interaction with the immune system. Most recent interests include the role of metabolic plasticity in these processes and the co-evolution of the tumor and the adaptive immune system. Other areas include spatial organization of the actin cytoskeleton, the mechanics of collective cell motility, and the analysis of genetic circuits involved in cell fate decisions.

Affiliated Faculty, 

Antimicrobial drug tolerance, antibiotic discovery, microbiome therapeutics

Assistant Professor, 

Oral vaccine, host and oral microbiome interactions, microbiome engineering, and protein engineering-based cancer immunotherapy

Assistant Professor, 

Synthetic biology, microbiology, biosensor development

Professor, 

Human-machine systems, human factors, biosensing and smart systems, human state and behavior modeling, transportation safety, healthcare and patient safety, human-friendly mechatronics, and human-robot interaction

Associate Professor, 

MEMS-enabled systems for assistive technologies, energy harvesting, and microscale vacuum applications; origami-enabled microfluidics and tissue engineering; carbon nanomaterials

Assistant Professor, 

computational systems biology, an integration of mathematical modeling and bioinformatics for studying gene regulatory networks, single cell genomics, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, coarse-graining, reverse engineering, machine learning, stochasticity and heterogeneity in gene expression

Professor and Chair, 

image and signal processing as applied to biophysical data designed to answer fundamental questions about the molecular basis of living systems, and progression of Alzheimer's Disease

Affiliated Faculty, 

Biotechnology and bio-organic chemistry

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Academic Coordinator, 

Associate Dean for Graduate Education, 

Combinatorial optimization, function approximation for large-scale machine learning, platforms for large-scale social experimentation, assistive technology

Student Services and Data Manager, 

Assistant Professor, 

Using computational methods including Monte Carlo methods, molecular dynamics simulations, and molecular docking calculations to obtain a fundamental understanding of molecular interactions that occur at biological interfaces, such as the pulmonary surfactant system in the lungs

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator, 

Departmental Programs: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Analytics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Engineering Management, Engineering Public Policy, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Robotics, and Sustainable Building Systems.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Coop Coordinator, 

Professor and Associate Chair For Research, 

Biomedical optics and non-invasive imaging, rare cell detection and tracking in the body, ultrafast time-domain diffuse optical imaging, image reconstruction and biomedical signal processing.

Affiliated Faculty, 

Cellular and systems neurobiology biological imaging, cognitive neurodynamics, neuroethology

Assistant Professor, 

pulmonary physiology, biofluids and transport phenomenon, computational biomechanics, magnetic resonance imaging, multi-scale modeling

Affiliated Faculty, 

Enzyme catalysis; functional genomics; modeling of enzyme substrate interactions; drug discovery; bioinformatics; protein design

Assistant Professor, 

Mechanobiology of the smooth muscle, Mechanisms of force transmission in multicellular ensembles, Methods for targeting extracellular matrix for asthma therapy

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Bioelectromagnetics, microwave tissue imaging, electromagnetic breast cancer detection and treatment, cardiac ablation therapy, microwave assisted balloon angioplasty, catheter-based sensing. Antennas, electromagnetic computation, subsurface sensing and imaging, explosives detection, security system conceptualization and design.

Assistant Professor, 

Developing chemical approaches to track and quantify important RNA processing events and modifications in single cells; DNA: protein interactions that drive differences in gene expression; understanding differences in RNA expression and the impacts on disease and development.

Professor, 

tissue engineering of load-bearing matrix (bone, cornea); bioreactor design; multi-scale mechanobiochemistry; statistical mechanics; energetics microscopy; high-resolution imaging; biopolymer self-assembly

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Professor, 

Control Systems and Signal Processing; Robust and Optimal Control, Positive Dynamic Systems, Fault Detection, Observer Theory, Robotics and Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems, Control of Biological Systems

Administrative Assistant, 

Professor, 

Multi-scale bone biomechanics–how the structure and composition of bone influences its mechanical properties; mechano-adaptation of bone and joint– how tissue responds to mechanical signals

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Cancer detection and drug discovery technologies

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Professor, 

Single-cell proteomics, Ribosome-mediated translational regulation, quantitative systems biology, mass-spectrometry

University Distinguished Professor, 

Feedback control theory, systems biology, cancer, and biomedicine

Affiliated Faculty, 

targeted photomedicine, biophysical microscopy and cancer biology

Affiliated Faculty, 

nanomedicine; neurotechnology; drug delivery, MRI imaging

Affiliated Faculty, 

Theoretical Neuroscience, Bioimaging & Signal Processing, Integrated Modeling, Inference, and Computing.

University Distinguished Professor, 

Motor control and learning, variability and stability, virtual rehabilitation, dynamic modeling, rhythmic and discrete movements as primitives for action

Professor, 

Wireless communications and networks, underwater acoustic transmission, statistical system characterization, adaptive signal processing

Professor, 

Magnetic, ferroelectric and magnetoelectric materials; RF/microwave magnetic and magnetoelectric devices design, fabrication and testing; materials properties at RF/microwave frequency; range self-assembly of magnetic nanostructures

Affiliated Faculty, 

Human motor control / learning, neurorehabilitation neuroscience, brain stimulation, brain imaging, virtual reality

Affiliated Faculty, 

Experimental Biophysics

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

development of next-generation DNA and RNA sequencing methods; nanopores as molecular sensors; bioinspired sustainability solutions; optical and electrical analysis of biomolecular systems; electron microscopy and electron-beam shaping of nanomaterials

Affiliated Faculty, 

dynamics of large-scale molecular machines, working to identify the physical principles that guide biomolecular dynamics, using molecular simulation approaches to interpret experimental data from a wide range of techniques, including biochemical, small-angle X-ray scattering and cryogenic electron microscopy

Affiliated Faculty, 

Professor and Chairperson, 

Mechanobiology of neural systems; Systems for nerve regeneration; Diversity and equity in engineering

Professor, 

Computational modeling of the cardiac myocyte to understand the molecular basis of arrhythmias; machine learning in critical care medicine to identify those patients who require urgent care

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Professor, 

Advanced microscopy for minimally invasive, in vivo characterization of brain function

Affiliated Faculty,