Faculty & Staff Directory

University Distinguished Professor, 

Polymeric biomaterials, drug delivery systems, nanomedical technologies

Associate Professor, 

Biomechanics, mechanobiology, biotransport

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

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

Professor, 

intestinal tissue engineering, retinal regenerative medicine, oral drug delivery

Professor, 

Optical nanosensors for biological analysis

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 multi-model imaging and remote sensing. Activities include computer modeling, designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the resulting data

Professor, 

Machine learning; data mining; statistical pattern recognition; computer vision and image processing

Professor and Vice Chair of Research, 

Statistical signal and image analysis, machine learning, neural interfaces, biomedical data analysis, human-intent inference for CPS

Associate Professor, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

neural interface technology, tissue engineering, and musculoskeletal biomechanics

Professor, 

Accelerators for computer intensive applications from the edge to the cloud. Applications of FPGAs including wireless communications, machine learning and data privacy.

Affiliated Faculty, 

Antimicrobial drug tolerance, antibiotic discovery, microbiome therapeutics

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

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

Professor, 

MEMS, NEMS, RF MEMS; nanotechnology; micro/nanofabrication; microsystems; microrelay; nanoswitch; microspectrometer; microfluidics; organic FETs, organic solar cells

Assistant Professor, 

Machine learning/pattern recognition; computer vision, affective computing, human-machine interaction

Associate Professor, 

Experiential robotics, human-robot teaming at the extremes, embodied artificial intelligence

Affiliated Faculty, 

Speech acoustics, Speech signal processing, AI Voice, voice analytics

Professor, 

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

Associate Dean for Space and Special Initiatives, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

nanomedicine; neurotechnology; drug delivery, MRI imaging

University Distinguished Professor, 

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

Professor Emeritus, 

Control systems; dynamical systems; low order modeling and estimation in complex systems; medical imaging

Affiliated Faculty, 

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

Professor, 

Cellular biomechanics; water filtration; thin film adhesion and characterization; subsurface mechano-sensing; shell adhesion; fundamental intersurface forces

Professor and Chairperson, 

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