
Research Areas
Faculty Research Areas
Faculty Research Areas
Sergei Adamovich |
Neural engineering; rehabilitation engineering; computer-assisted rehabilitation. |
Tara Alvarez |
Neural control of oculomotor movements, functional magnetic resonance imaging |
Treena Livingston Arinzeh |
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 |
Traumatic brain injury, material science, molecular dynamics, nanoscale composites, nanoscale composites, biomedical engineering, superplasticity, computational material science. |
George Collins |
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 |
Tissue engineering and biomaterials development and customization, particularly focused in skeletal muscle tissues and the study of innervation and vascularization. |
James Haorah |
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 |
Peptide based biomaterials; self-assembly; tissue engineering; drug development; in vitro testing; in vivo models; angiogenesis; inflammation. |
Alice Eun Jung Lee |
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 |
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. |