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Faculty
Metin Akay, Ph.D., Founding Chair, John S. Dunn Chair, Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers University; Biomedical signal modeling and processing.
Yasemin Akay, Ph.D., Instructional Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers University; Neuroscience and neuroengineering.
Ravi Birla, Ph.D., Instructional Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers University; Neuroscience and neuroengineering; creating of 3D cardiovascular constructs, including bioengineering 3D cardiac patches, using stem cells to support the formation of cardiovascular tissue construct, developing cell based cardiac pumps, and developing scaffold-free technology to support 3D heart muscle formation.
Ting Y. Chen, Ph.D., Instructional/Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Arizona State University; Effects of nicotine exposure and prefrontal cortex transection, analysis of single-unit neural recording data.
Andrei Dragomir, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D, University of Patras, Greece; Innovative datamining, pattern recognition and machine learning algorithms, time series analysis, complex networks modeling, neural engineering, bioinformatics.
Yong Du, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Sun Yat-sen University, China; Internal medicine/nephrology.
Howard Gifford, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Arizona; Image formation and reconstruction for medical imaging; objective assessment of imaging systems; visual perception and sources of observer variability; image classification and pattern recognition; statistical decision and estimation theory; parallel-computing applications in imaging.
Nuri Ince, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey; Clinical neuroengineering, neural signal processing for brain machine interfaces, machine learning for neuromarker discovery and biomedical instrumentation for healthcare and assisted living.
Kirill Larin, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Ph.D, University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston; Biomedical engineering/optics with particular emphasis on diagnostic imaging, biosensing, microscopy and classification of tissues.
Elebeoba E. May, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Ph.D, North Carolina State University; Bioinformatics, infectious disease and immunity, biomolecular modeling, computational biosensor platform technologies.
Chandra Mohan, MD, Ph.D., Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor; MD, National University of Singapore; Ph.D., Tufts University; Elucidating the cellular, molecular, and genetic players leading to murine lupus, with corresponding translational studies in human lupus; mining new biomarkers and targets in chronic rheumatic diseases.
Ahmet Omurtag, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Ph.D., Columbia University; Mechanical engineering, pervasive use of portable, networked EEG devices, quantitative model and assessment of medical procedures and computational neuroscience.
Robert Clayton Robbins, M.D., Adjunct Professor; M.D., University of Mississippi School of Medicine; Cardiac regeneration, cardiac transplant allograft vasculopathy, bioengineered blood vessels, and automated vascular anastomotic devices.
Sergey Shevkoplyas, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Ph.D., Boston University; Biomedical engineering, improving the safety and efficacy of blood transfusions and making blood products available for life saving transfusions in resource-limited settings.
Tianfu Wu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Employing nanotechnologies to develop nano-probes and drug carrier, to achieve the goals of early biomarker detection and novel therapeutics for chronic diseases.
Yingchun Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Zhejiang University, China; Advancing clinical diagnosis of dysfunction in the human body through the fusion of functional bioelectrical activity/impedance imaging which includes functional neuroimaging, functional muscle activity imaging and functional bioelectrical impedance imaging, electrical stimulation and recording, advanced computational modeling and electrophysiological/biomechanical analysis with applications in investigating the mechanisms of bioelectrical activity in biological tissue and systems.
Die Zhang, Ph.D., Instructional and Research Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Neurological and mental disorders, including drug addiction and schizophrenia; aspects of central dopamine system functioning and its control, both intra- and extracellular, as well as the site and mechanism of action.
Faculty with Joint BME Appointments
Yi-Chao Chen, Ph.D. (ME)
Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D. (ECE)
Mini Das, Ph.D. (Physics)
Vallabh Das, Ph.D. (Optometry)
Matthew A. Franchek. Ph.D. (ME)
Dan Graur, Ph.D. (NSM)
John R. Glover, Ph.D. (ECE)
Heidi Hoffer , Ph.D (Optometry)
Ben H. Jansen, Ph.D. (ECE)
Ioannis Kakadiaris, Ph.D. (CS)
Fatima Merchant, Ph.D. (Technology)
Ralph Metcalfe, Ph.D. (ME)
Haluk Ogmen, Ph.D. (ECE)
Jason Porter, Ph.D. (Optometry)
Paul Ruchhoeft, Ph.D. (ECE)
Wei-Chuan Shih, Ph.D. (ECE)
Michael Twa, Ph.D. (Optometry)
Navin Varadarajan, Ph.D. (ChBE)
Richard Willson, Ph.D. (ChBE)
Wanda Zagozdzon-Wosik, Ph.D. (ECE)
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