Research Areas | Department of Biomedical Engineering

Sergei Adamovich Professor	Neural engineering; rehabilitation engineering; computer-assisted rehabilitation.
Tara Alvarez Professor	Neural control of oculomotor movements, functional magnetic resonance imaging
Treena Livingston Arinzeh Distinguished Professor	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.
Bharat Biswal Distinguished Professor	Mapping the brain's activity. Using fMRI to study how different regions of the brain communicate while the brain is at rest.
Namas Chandra Distinguished Professor	Traumatic brain injury, material science, molecular dynamics, nanoscale composites, nanoscale composites, biomedical engineering, superplasticity, computational material science.
George Collins Research Professor	Amorphous phase in pharmaceuticals and biomaterial solids; molecular origin of physical behavior of polymeric and pharmaceutical solids; physical characterization of biomaterials; nano-fiber materials; fabrication of novel scaffolds for tissue engineering applications.
Jonathan Grasman Assistant Professor	Tissue engineering and biomaterials development and customization, particularly focused in skeletal muscle tissues and the study of innervation and vascularization.
James Haorah Associate Professor	Examining the underlying molecular, biochemical, and cellular mechanisms of damage to blood-brain barrier and neurovascular units during substance abuse, blast-wave brain injury or HIV infection.
Antje Ihlefeld Assistant Professor	Auditory perception, signal processing, neural engineering, neuroscience, Cochlear implants, hearing aids, computational modelling of the brain, neural networks, pattern classification, big data.
Vivek Kumar Assistant Professor	Peptide based biomaterials; self-assembly; tissue engineering; drug development; in vitro testing; in vivo models; angiogenesis; inflammation.
Alice Eun Jung Lee Associate Professor	Cardiovascular tissue engineering with applied mechanics; stem cells; regenerative medicine.
Xiaobo Li Associate Professor	Computational neuroanatomy, multi-modal MRI (structural MRI, fMRI, DTI), bioinformatics, graph theory, machine learning, neuroimaging in brain development and disorders (e.g. ADHD, ASD, schizophrenia, TBI).
Carlotta Mummolo Assistant Professor	Legged locomotion; postural balance control and rehabilitation; robot-assisted mobility; rehabilitation robotics; biomechanics of human motion; gait biomechanics; multibody dynamics; mechanisms and robotics; humanoid robotics; human-robot interaction.
Bryan Pfister Professor	Tissue engineering; developmental neural biology; axon growth; mechanisms of neural injuries; nervous system injury repair.
Mesut Sahin Professor	Neural prostheses; brain-computer interfaces; optical neural stimulation; cerebellar and spinal cord neural circuits; neural recording with multi-electrode arrays; electrode materials.
Xianlian Alex Zhou Associate Professor	Computational biomechanics; digital human modeling; robotics and human-machine interface; personalized medicine.