Faculty Research Areas | Biomedical Engineering

Sergei Adamovich Associate Professor	Neural engineering; rehabilitation engineering; computer-assisted rehabilitation.
Tara Alvarez Professor	Neural control of oculomotor movements, functional magnetic resonance imaging
Treena Livingston Arinzeh 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 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 Professor	Traumatic brain injury, material science, molecular dynamics, nanoscale composites, nanoscale composites, biomedical engineering, superplasticity, computational material science.
Hans Chaudhry Research Professor	Postural stability; stress and strain analysis in the cardiovascular system; optimal patterns of wound suturing; low back dysfunction; human fascia; cerebral aneurysm; and in-exsufflation for respiratory disabilities.
Cheul Cho Assistant Research Professor	Stem cell bioengineering; regenerative medicine; tissue engineering; polymeric biomaterials.
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.
Richard A. Foulds Associate Professor	Neuromuscular/rehabilitation engineering; neural control of human movement; machine recognition of human gesture; gesture dynamics; telemanipulation; Haptic and kinesthetic systems; multimodal human/machine interaction; mechatronics.
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.
William C. Hunter Professor	Cardiac function; biomedical applications for MEMS devices.
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.
Michael Jaffe Research Professor	Biomaterial and biomolecule synthesis, fabrication and characterization, Protein and sugar based sustainable/renewable materials for biomedical, cosmetic and other commercial applications.
Alice Eun Jung Lee Assistant 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).
Bryan Pfister Associate Professor	Tissue engineering; developmental neural biology; axon growth; mechanisms of neural injuries; nervous system injury repair.
Mesut Sahin Associate Professor	Neural prostheses; brain-computer interfaces; optical neural stimulation; cerebellar and spinal cord neural circuits; neural recording with multi-electrode arrays; electrode materials.