Faculty and Staff 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

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, 

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, 

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