Biomedical Engineering Faculty
Program Director
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Nanomedicine and image-guided drug delivery for novel diagnostic and therapeutic applications in oncology
Associate Director of BME Joint Programs
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Development of noninvasive molecular imaging tools to elucidate in vivo metabolism
Faculty
Professor
Research Interests: Molecular Imaging; optical imaging; instrument development; image-guided surgery; cancer treatment, molecular probes; spectroscopy, multimodal nuclear and magnetic imaging; stimulated thermal imaging, nanomedicine
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Drug resistance mechanism, drug delivery systems, nanoparticles, immunotherapy, tissue engineering
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Development of hybrid positron emission tomography (PET) (e.g. PET-CT and PET-MR) tools to enable precision imaging for the care and study of oncology, neurology, and cardiology patients.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Developing non- and minimally invasive optical tools to monitor deep tissues in health and disease, as well as throughout therapy
Professor
Research Interests: Cancer, cell polarity, developmental biology, morphogenesis, stem/progenitor cells, tissue engineering and regeneration
Radomir Chabiniok, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Biomechanical Modeling of Cardiovascular System; Computational Physiology; Cardiovascular MRI; Heart Failure; Congenital Heart Disease
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Genomic, genetic, and molecular approaches to autism spectrum disorders
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Metastasis, Breast Cancer, Tumor Immunology, Immunotherapy
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: MR spectroscopy, MR spectroscopic imaging, MRI, Brain, GABA, glutamate, glutatamate, Glioma, Major depressive disorder, Bipolar disorder, epilepsy, MEGA-PRESS, metabolite mapping, AI, neural networks
Professor
Research Interests: Nerve regeneration; long nerve gap repair; nerve-machine interface
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Computational protein science, evolutionary genomics, machine learning, structural biology
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Nanomedicine and image-guided drug delivery for novel diagnostic and therapeutic applications in oncology
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience; language; cognition; social communication; fMRI; neuroimaging; autism spectrum disorders; development; cerebellum
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Sub concussive head impact exposure in contact sports, traumatic brain injury, magnetoencephalography
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Metastatic colonization, autonomous light-sheet microscopy, optical probes, computer vision
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Ultrasound contrast agent, perfluorocarbon emulsions, development of new ultrasound-based strategies for early detection and treatment of diseases
Professor
Research Interests: MR medical physics, adaptive radiotherapy, imaging, deep learning, MRI, radiology, NMR, pattern recognition, neuroradiology, AI, artificial intelligence, oncology
Professor
Research Interests: Understand the basic biomechanical and neurophysiological properties of the lower limb after neurological lesions. Explore the neuro-mechanical underpinnings of lower limb impairments after stroke, with the goal of informing future clinical interventions
Associate Professor
Research Interests: The long-term goal of our lab’s research is to develop and implement imaging technologies that provide unprecedented insight into cancer biology.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Brain-computer, interface, cognitive control, metacognition, motor control
Professor
Research Interests: Activatable optical/MRI imaging probes to study tumor metabolism and theranostic nanomedicine for cancer-targeted drug therapy
Professor
Research Interests: Molecular imaging, Synthetic chemistry, Spin physics, Metabolism
Professor
Research Interests: Evaluate the use of newly designed biodegradable stints to treat pulmonary artery stenosis
Professor
Research Interests: Statistical methods, clinical trials, epidemiology, health economics
Professor
Research Interests: Resonance Imaging; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; ultra-high field MRI; hardware; RF coils; B0 shimming; sequence development; data analysis
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Single-cell regulatory genomics, cell fate engineering, function of non-coding elements and genetic variants.
Professor
Research Interests: Heart-lung interaction; lung morphometry; structure-function correlation of lung growth
Professor
Research Interests: Colorectal cancer, tumor microenvironment, regeneration, cancer stem cells
Professor
Research Interests: Assessment of ventriculographie-arterial coupling in congenital and acquired heart disease. Cardiac MRI for improved vascular imaging
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Large language models, AI, spatial biology, image analysis, machine learning
Professor
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence in medical imaging, radiotherapy treatment planning, and adaptive radiotherapy, etc.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Molecular recognition in protein folding, chaperone structural biology,and neurodegeneration
Professor
Research Interests: Generation and application of hyperpolarized13C-labeled compounds and89Y-complexes for MRI/Radiopharmaceutical applications
Professor
Research Interests: Computational genomics. Using molecular, genetic, genomic, and computational approaches to understanding signal-regulated gene expression. Integrating data from different genomic platforms using computational approaches
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Development of novel computational algorithms/models/pipelines for big, heterogeneous biological and medical data
Professor
Research Interests: Cell fate, wound healing, muscle fibrosis, heterotopic ossification, injury response
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Neuroimaging, MRI, Dynamic Brain Connectivity, Dopamine, Astrocytes, Reward and Learning
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Probe engineering and targeted drug delivery to islet cells for treating diabetes; Islet biology with an emphasis on functional analysis on zinc signaling and zinc transporters in islet endocrine cells.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Structural and biochemical characterization of membrane proteins in cholesterol biosynthesis, metabolism and signaling
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Theoretical and computational approaches to predict protein folding and aggregation; evolutionary dynamics
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Fast and motion-robust MRI acquisition and reconstruction, High-resolution MRI for in vivo imaging intracortical structure and deep nuclei, Novel MRI contrast and quantification of tissue properties
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Molecular Imaging, lung cancer, kidney cancer, tumor microenvironment
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Mechanisms of protein folding, misfolding, and aggregation; Studying amyloid assembly and their heterotypic interactions with other cellular components, with a particular focus on neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease; Development of anti-amyloid inhibitors as novel therapeutics; Functional amyloids in organisms
Professor
Research Interests: Adaptive radiation therapy; treatment-plan optimization; radiation-dose calculations
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Ultrasound-guided drug and gene delivery, Targeted drug delivery system, Materials Science, Immunotherapy, Image-guided therapy, Nanomedicine
Professor
Research Interests: Parturition (the process of labor); cervical ripening; male and female reproductive biology
Professor
Research Interests: Deep Learning applications in neuroimaging including brain tumor molecular marker prediction, Traumatic Brain Injury, MEG, MRI, fMRI
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Developing state-of-the-art machine-learning approaches to extract radiological imaging and imaging-genomic biomarkers for individualized prognostics in neuroscience and oncological applications
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Radiation therapy treatment planning, optimization techniques and algorithms, artificial intelligence technology development and applications
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Statistical causal inference, Computational analysis of live-cell imaging, Computational modeling of sub-cellular protein-protein interactions from live-cell video data Image-based modeling of information flow within biological neural networks/p>
Professor
Research Interests: Application of structural (X-ray, CT, and MR) and functional (SPECT and PET) imaging methods to quantify changes in bone mass and metabolism induced by metabolic bone diseases; in vivo assessment of beta-cell mass and function by novel probes; novel PET and SPECT probe development for bone cells
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Development of noninvasive molecular imaging tools to elucidate in vivo metabolism
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Translational biophotonics, optical spectroscopy & imaging, instrumentation
Professor
Research Interests: Cell motility and mechanics, corneal repair and regeneration, in vivo confocal imaging
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Spatial organization of tumors by combining machine identified phenotypes and existing pathology scoring within the framework established by cancer biology
Professor
Research Interests: Nanomedicine, immunotherapy, ultrasound and radiation guided chemo-immunonotherapy
Professor
Research Interests: Integrating structure, kinetics, and computation to understand the molecular determinants and regulatory mechanisms of microtubule dynamics
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Biomaterials, hydrogels, tissue engineering, stem cells, regenerative medicine, drug delivery
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Biostatistics, statistical genomics, multi-omics
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Role of cycloxygenase-2 in radiation and chemo-resistance, role of small molecule inhibitors as radio-sensitizers
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Intermediary Metabolism in Cardiovascular & Metabolic Diseases, Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 Metabolic Imaging, Metabolomics in the Heart, Lung, and Perfusion Preservation, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) based Metabolomics
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Innovate, develop, and apply artificial intelligence and other advance computational technologies to empower clinicians to improve cancer care
Professor
Research Interests: Polymer and materials chemistry, drug and gene delivery, RNAi, biomedical imaging, detection and treatment of cancer
Professor
Research Interests: Clinical application of nanoprobes with unique nanoscale behavior
Professor
Research Interests: Development of PET, SPECT, and MRI imaging probes to assess biological abnormalities and evaluation of disease treatment
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Biomaterials, immunoengineering, infection tissue engineering
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Aging, Cerebral blood flow, Cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumption, Cerebrovascular physiology, Mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Antibiotic resistance and sensitivity; single molecule biophysics; synthetic biology
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Endogenous and exogenous MRI contrast agents and mechanisms in vivo, CEST and PARACEST imaging, hyperpolarization
Professor
Research Interests: Immunogenomics, Tumor genomics, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, and Machine learning
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Biomedical optics, In Vivo cell tracking, Optical tomography-guided radiation therapy and Ultra-high dose rate irradiation
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Diffusion MRI; QSM; Neuroimaging; ML/AI; Alzheimer's Disease; Osteoarthritis
Professor
Research Interests: My methodology research is focused on model development for high-dimensional data such as gene expression, epigenomics, copy number variation, proteomics, genome-wide RNAi functional screening data and brain image data.
Professor
Research Interests: Biostatistics, bioinformatics, statistical genomics, clinical trial design, and biomarker studies
Professor
Research Interests: Statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics, gene mapping for complex traits
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Epigenomics, single-cell data analysis, machine learning and deep learning algorithm development
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, clinical informatics, AI applications for prostate radiotherapy, genitourinary oncology
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Detect early changes in the mitochondrial metabolism, in situ, as a marker for asymptomatic, subclinical, doxorubicin induced cardiotoxicity
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Radiation therapy treatment planning, optimization techniques and algorithms, artificial intelligence technology development and applications
Professor
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence; MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy (MRgART); Large Language Model (LLM) based Al agent
Associate Professor
Research Interests: 3D/4D CT/CBCT reconstruction and analysis, 4D MRI reconstruction, artificial intelligence and automation in radiation therapy, biomechanical modeling and finite element analysis, deformable registration and its application in image-guided radiation therapy, radiotherapy dose calculation and plan optimization
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Cardiac MRI, Deep Learning, MR Sequence Development
Associate Faculty
These faculty members do not accept graduate students. They participate in teaching, co-mentoring, exam and dissertation committees, and all other program activities.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Biomedical imaging, molecular imaging, optical device design, nanomaterials, cancer biology and treatment
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Applying new technologies to improve clinical operations, and working in partnership with physicians to develop novel techniques.
Professor
Research Interests: Eukaryotic chromatin organization, mutational rates and spectra, biological signals and noise
Professor
Research Interests: NMR spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy in conjunction with the application of stable isotope tracers to study metabolic function
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Evolution of molecular components of the nervous system, gene therapy for genetic disorders, how pain alters cognitive function and leads to co-morbid addiction, how pain is altered by cognitive state
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Light-sheet fluorescencemicroscopy (LSFM), oblique plane microscope (OPM), structured illumination microscopy (SIM), super-resolution, DNA-PAINT, live-imaging, zebrafish, spheroid, organoid
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Computational neuroimaging of neurodegenerative diseases including multiple sclerosis, functional network modeling using resting-state functional MRI, imaging biomarker development and validation, microstructural imaging using high-gradient diffusion MRI
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Biomaterials; circulatory assist devices
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Nanomedicine, lipid nanoparticles, mRNA, siRNA, CRISPR/Cas, base editing, genetic medicines, gene editing
Somesree Ghosh Mitra, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Nanomaterials, cancer research, axon regeneration
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Deep learning application in magnetic resonance imaging, dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE- MRI)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: PET, SPECT, and optical imaging probes to assess biological abnormalities and evaluate disease treatment; radiotheranostics for cancer treatment
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Tissue-Response modeling in radiation therapy
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Developing advanced signal processing and AI-driven tools to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of brain injuries in newborns
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Statistics, statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, genome-wide association studies
Professor
Research Interests: Cervical cancer, developmental therapeutics, ovarian cancer, early detection of ovarian cancer
Professor
Research Interests: Tissue-response modeling in radiation therapy; stereotactic radiation therapy
Professor
Research Interests: Heart, lung, and perfusion preservation, magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Professor
Research Interests: Proton Therapy, Artificial Intelligence, PET and PET/MRI Imaging, FLASH
Associate Professor
Research Interests: In vivo MRS for studies of energy and phospholipids metabolism in brain and skeletal muscle
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Stable isotope tracers for imaging metabolism in vivo, responsive MR imaging agents for detecting changes in biology or physiology in vivo, hyperpolarized 13C metabolite probes for imaging metabolism in vivo
Professor
Research Interests: Neural cardiovascular control during exercise; reflex dysfunction in heart failure; reflex dysfunction in hypertension
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Pathogen inactivation, cancer prevention, aging research
Professor
Research Interests: Application of biomedical engineering to cancer research, developing novel cancer diagnostics and therapeutics to improve cancer treatment, genitourinary cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, biomedical engineering, nanotechnology, radiation oncology, translational research, cancer immunotherapy, cancer nanotherapeutics, cancer biomarkers, radioisotopes, nanoparticles, prostate cancer, chemoradiotherapy
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Machine learning in ophthalmology, ophthalmic image processing and visualization, ocular disease early detection and progression monitoring, optical coherence tomography, retinal layer segmentation
Professor
Research Interests: Application of Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques (fMRI, DTI, MRS, etc). Correction of magnetic susceptibility artifacts on brain MRI caused by orthodontic appliances. MR Quality Assurance and Safety. MRI Assessment of Body Iron. Application of AI in medical imaging
Associate Professor
Research Interests: MRI Physics, Radiomics, Synthetic MRI, Cardiac MRI
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Biomaterial grafts, coatings and scaffolds; finite element analysis; polymer synthesis; bioresorbable polymer characterization
Professor
Research Interests: High-performance computing; infrastructure for radiation therapy; radiobiological effects
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Applied mathematics and MRI methods for translational research in liver imaging with special focus on evaluation of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Magnetic resonance imaging, in vivo histology using non-invasive imaging, Alzheimer's Disease, Multiple sclerosis, dementia