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Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Bioinstrumentation and Medical Devices

Department Faculty

Shai Ashkenazi
Biomedical Engineering
Bioimaging, instrumentation
Bin He
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical imaging, neuroengineering, bioinstrumentation, biomodeling
Matt Johnson
Biomedical Engineering
Neuromodulation mechanisms and technology
Hugh Lim
Biomedical Engineering
Neural prostheses, auditory neuroscience, neural plasticity
Alena Talkachova
Biomedical Engineering
Cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac imaging, numerical modeling
David Wood
Biomedical Engineering
Microfluidics, bioMEMS, disease-on-a-chip, diagnostics
     

Faculty with Graduate Education Responsibilities

Michael Bowser
Chemistry
Bioanalysis, microfluidics, neurochemistry, in vitro selection
Tianhong Cui
Mechanical Engineering
MEMS/NEMS, micro- and nanomanufacturing, flexible electronics
Afshin Divani
Neurosurgery
Cerebrovascular diseases and stroke, spinal cord injury, endovascular/implantable devices, medical signal and image processing, traumatic brain injury
Kevin Dorfman
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Microfluidic electrophoresis of DNA and other biomolecules, biophysics of structured nucleic acids
Will Durfee
Mechanical Engineering
Biomechanics and neuromuscular physiology of human movement, electrical stimulation of paralyzed muscles to return function to the spinal cord injured, product design
Art Erdman
Mechanical Engineering
Medical device and product design, MEMS devices in medicine
Stan Finkelstein
Lab Medicine and Pathology
Instrumentation, medical computing, patient home monitoring
Bruce Hammer
Radiology
Biotechnology, MR safety/compatability of medical devices, industrial process monitoring
Allison Hubel
Mechanical Engineering
Culture and cryopreservation of engineered tissues, microfluidic devices
Paul Iaizzo
Surgery
Skeletal and cardiac muscle physiology, pathophysiology of inherited muscle disorders, human thermoregulation and biomedical correlates of wound prevention
Steven Koester
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Micro- and nanoelectronics, optoelectronic devices, photovoltaics, energy harvesting, biomedical devices
Sang-Hyun Oh
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nanoscale biosensors, nanostructured solar cells, surface plasmon resonance, microfluidics
Rajesh Rajamani
Mechanical Engineering
MEMS sensors, biomedical devices, battery-less wireless sensing applications
Fotis Sotiropoulos
Civil Engineering
Computational fluid dynamics, biomedical devices and virtual surgery
Ephraim Sparrow
Mechanical Engineering
Heat transfer and fluid mechanics
Gerald Timm
Urologic Surgery
Technological solutions to urologic disease, disorders of the pelvic viscera, diagnosis and treatment of urinary incontincence and sexual dysfunction
Thomas Vaughan
Radiology
Biomedical instrumentation, electromagnetics design and modeling, magnetic resonance imaging
Jian-Ping Wang
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Magnetic materials and spintronic devices, magnetic nanoparticles, spin transfer devices, magnetic information and biomedical technologies

 

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