Faculty Research Areas
William C. Hunter
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Cardiac function;  biomedical applications for MEMS devices.

David Kristol
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Reactions of amines with chlorocarbons; modeling of cardiovascular dynamics; mathematical modeling of acetylcholineesterase; steric effects in organic reactions.
H. Michael Lacker

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Rehabilitation engineering; gait analysis, modeling of physiological systems.
Stanley Reisman
Professor of Biomedical Engineering

 

 Biomedical simulation, instrumentation and signal processing; signal processing of evoked potentials, ECG, EEG, and EMG signal analysis; rehabilitation; modeling of human feedback control systems; circadian rhythms; heart rate variability in stroke and spinal cord injured patients to assess the effect of rehabilitation on heart function.
Richard A. Foulds
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

 

Neuromusular/rehabilitation engineering; neural control of human movement; machine recognition of human gesture; gesture dynamics; telemanipulation; Haptic and kinesthetic systems; multimodal human/machine interaction; mechatronics.
Tara Alvarez
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Vision research and neurology; the effects of prediction and adaptation as it relates to the vergence system, which is the foundation for virtual reality; development of new instruments and data analysis software to understand basic research of how the human body functions as well as aid in the detection of diseases.

Treena Livingston Arinzeh
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Applied biomaterials and tissue engineering; cell-biomaterial interaction; materials processing; surface characterization and modification of biomaterials; materials testing; in vivo models; tissue-engineering scaffolds for repair of bone and other related musculoskeletal tissues; nerve tissue regeneration utilizing stem cells.
Sergei Adamovich
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Neural engineering; rehabilitation engineering; computer-assisted rehabilitation.

Michael Jaffe
Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Industrial application of collagen; bioMEMS, morphologically-Induced nanopatterned surfaces, biochips, sensors and diagnostics.
Hans Chaudhry
Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Stress and strain analysis in cardiovascular system, optimal patterns of wound suturing, low back dysfunction,and postural stabilty.
Dentcho Ivanov
Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering

 

BioMEMS, MEMS, micro- and nano-scale devices and systems. Microfabrication and microelectronics technologies