Graduate faculty
View Department of Biomedical Engineering graduate faculty members and their contact information.
Graduate Faculty
![Taner Akkin](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/akkin-taner-profile.jpg.webp?itok=cuQzd34h)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Biomedical imaging, brain mapping, optics
![alptekin-aksan.jpg Alptekin Aksan profile photo](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2018-10/alptekin-aksan_0.jpg.webp?itok=OnN2TK8K)
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Biotransport, biopreservation, cancer bioengineering, biomaterials
![Patrick Alford](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/alford-patrick-profile.jpg.webp?itok=NNQwxyAi)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cell and tissue biomechanics and mechanobiology
![Edgar Arriaga](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/edgar-arriaga_0.jpg.webp?itok=WO_TmXuD)
![Shai Ashkenazi](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/ashkenazi-shai-profile.jpg.webp?itok=BVqrG6CP)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Ultrasound Imaging, photoacoustics
![Samira Azarin](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/azarin-samira.jpg.webp?itok=_N4bmMls)
Primary department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Research interests: Stem cell engineering, biomaterials, biomanufacturing
![Victor Barocas](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/barocas-victor-profile.jpg.webp?itok=Ps5Gn6CV)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Soft tissue biomechanics and mechanobiology
![Eric Batchelor](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/eric-batchelor.jpg.webp?itok=BvJokR3a)
Primary department: Integrative Biology and Physiology
Research interests: Systems biology, cancer, cellular signaling
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Joanie Bechtold
Primary department: Orthopedic Surgery
![john-bischof-headshot.jpg John Bischof](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-07/john-bischof-headshot.jpg.webp?itok=Y0Wyj_2_)
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering / Biomedical Engineering
![Patrick Bolan](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/patrick-bolan-4x6_0.jpg.webp?itok=Bj_vXRht)
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: Magnetic resonance imaging, quantitative imaging, clinical translation, AI image analysis
![portrait of Professor Michael Bowser](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/BowserMichaelNP.jpg.webp?itok=QP-Iw_QM)
![Henry Buchwald](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Henry-Buchwald_0.jpeg.webp?itok=Ilj09dNH)
Primary department: Surgery
![Matthew Chafee](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/matthew-chafee-4x6.jpg.webp?itok=5JpeDWoh)
Primary department: Neuroscience
![Wei Chen](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/wei-chen%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=k-vt5B_W)
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: MR-based metabolic imaging, functional MRI, ultrahigh field MR technology, brain research
![Tianhong Cui](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Tianhong-Cui.jpg.webp?itok=YIWUz06I)
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
![David Darrow](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/david-darrow.jpeg.webp?itok=NczKyJJQ)
Primary department: Neurosurgery
Research interests: Human translational electrophysiology and neuromodulation
![Kevin Dorfman](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/kevin-dorfman.jpg.webp?itok=rBwoJ8uc)
Primary department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Research interests: Polymer physics, DNA, microfluidics
![Daniel Duprez](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/daniel-duprez-4x6.jpg.webp?itok=HZlVvyze)
Primary department: Medicine/Cardiology
![Will Durfee headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Durfee_175x263p_300dpi_18.jpg.webp?itok=79oMxYQL)
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Medical devices, assistive technology, musculoskeletal systems
![Emad Ebbini](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-20%20at%2010.47.39%20AM.png.webp?itok=4gli_Ck8)
Primary department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
![timothy-ebner_1.gif Timothy Ebner profile photo](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-01/timothy-ebner_1.gif.webp?itok=dTZdgl_l)
![Arin Ellingson](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/arin-ellingson%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=RHFbeZ2O)
Primary department: Rehabilitation Medicine
Research interests: Imaging-based biomechanics, spine mechanics
![Art Erdman](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/art-erdman-4x6.jpg.webp?itok=KDzjEvrh)
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
![John Foker](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/john-foker-4x6.jpg.webp?itok=QxgApLNe)
![Jasmine Foo](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/jasmine-foo-200x300.jpg.webp?itok=PGyVwR67)
Primary department: Mathematics
Research interests: Mathematical modeling, cancer evolution, treatment optimization
![Melissa Gardner](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/melissa-gardner-4x6.jpg.webp?itok=-ZUjWuUT)
Primary department: Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
![Michael Garwood](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/michael-garwood-4x6.jpg.webp?itok=yFckNSvH)
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: Magnetic resonance imaging, electron paramagnetic resonance, technical developments
![Geoff Ghose](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/geoffrey-ghose.jpg.webp?itok=8qjZAyxq)
Primary department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Neurophysiology, neuroimaging, computation
![Andrew Grande](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Andrew-Grande.jpeg.webp?itok=DW9jy--u)
![Ben Hackel](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/ben-hackel-4x6.jpg.webp?itok=T4MgaEsC)
Primary department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Research interests: Protein engineering, drug discovery, drug delivery
![Arif Hamid](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/arif-hamid.jpg.webp?itok=0F8963zL)
Primary department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Reinforcement learning, computational neuroscience, dopamine, decision circuitry, reward learning, motor learning
![Andrew Hanson](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/andrew-hanson.jpg.webp?itok=J4vOKURz)
Primary department: Rehabilitation Science
Research interests: Rehabilitation engineering, assistive technology development, prosthetics, wheelchairs
![noam harel](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/noam-harel_0.jpg.webp?itok=hvr8-kru)
Primary department: Radiology
7T MRI methods, deep brain stimulation (DBS), neuromodulation
![Brittany Hartwell](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Brittany%20Hartwell-portrait-web.jpg.webp?itok=-OQNehf5)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Immunoengineering, biomolecular engineering, drug delivery
![Rachel Hawe headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Hawe_Rachel_2019%20-%20150x225.jpg.webp?itok=SH82w-GR)
Primary department: Kinesiology
Research interests: Neurorehabilitation, motor control, rehabilitation robotics
![Alexander Herman](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/alexander-herman.jpg.webp?itok=vp_SqHDe)
Primary department: Psychiatry
Primary department: Neural engineering, cognitive neuroscience, neuromodulation
![Wei-Shou Hu](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/wei-shou-hu.jpg.webp?itok=NcbyBFi0)
Primary department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
![allison-hubel.jpg Allison Hubel profile photo](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-01/allison-hubel.jpg.webp?itok=UcOJnaCG)
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Preservation of cells, low temperature biology
![Paul Iazzo](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/paul-iazzo%20%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=92krVLtG)
Primary department: Surgery
Research interests: Medical device development, cardiovascular engineering, organ transplantation, mixed reality education
![Tinen L. Iles](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/tinen.jpg.webp?itok=4spTYmhS)
Primary department: Surgery
Research interests: Clinical data science, computational modeling, device design, clinical decision making
![Shanie Jayasinghe](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/shanie-jayasinghe.jpg.webp?itok=DCUm7vWY)
Primary department: Rehabilitation Medicine
Research interests: Motor control, motor learning, movement rehabilitation
![Luke Johnson](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Luke_Johnson.jpg.webp?itok=p0H4ZPzb)
Primary department: Neurology
Research interests: Deep brain stimulation, Parkinson's disease, translational neuroscience
![Matt Johnson](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/matt-johnson-profile.jpg.webp?itok=UuVYKizs)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Neural engineering, biomedical data science, medical device design
![Prakash-Kara.jpg Prakash Kara](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-03/Prakash-Kara.jpg.webp?itok=kfpvkURp)
Primary department: Neuroscience
![Kendrick Kay](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/kendrick-kay.jpg.webp?itok=zl5m9E9X)
Kendrick Kay*
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: fMRI methods, computational neuroscience, vision, statistics
![Aaron Kerlin](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/aaron-kerlin.jpg.webp?itok=a40ZWqcj)
![Suhasa Kodandaramaiah](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/suhasa-kodandaramaiah_0.jpg.webp?itok=AjXryLqe)
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Engineering and applying large-scale neural recording technologies
![Steven Koester](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/steven-koester.jpg.webp?itok=cIMAMtuJ)
Primary department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: Biosensors, biological applications of microelectronic devices
![Timothy Kowalewski](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Kowalewski_200x300_0.jpg.webp?itok=Ul4Q3CNR)
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
![Christophe Lenglet](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/christophe-lenglet-4x6.jpg.webp?itok=NurJv4nb)
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: Neuroimaging, diffusion MRI, high-field MRI, brain connectivity, computational modeling
![Hubert Lim](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Lim-Hubert-bio%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=ch4wmFb2)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Neuroengineering, hearing devices, neuro-immune technologies, whole person health, translational research and commercialization
![kelvin-lim.jpg Kelvin Lim profile photo](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-01/kelvin-lim.jpg.webp?itok=nzTV0hzp)
![John Looft](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/john-looft.jpg.webp?itok=1R3QBW7Q)
![Walter C. Low](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/walter-low.jpeg.webp?itok=2tzMfhmk)
Primary department: Neurosurgery
![Paula Ludewig](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/paula-ludewig.jpg.webp?itok=6oMaekuq)
Primary department: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Research interests: Shoulder biomechanics and rehabilitation as well as modeling, imaging, and motion analysis to understand prevention and treatment of shoulder injury and disease
![Louis Mansky](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Louis-Mansky.jpg.webp?itok=4W4_ZQtX)
Primary department: Diagnostic and Biological Sciences
Research interests: Quantitative biomedical optics, tissue engineering, molecular engineering
![Michael McAlpine](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/McAlpine_200x300.jpeg.webp?itok=DWdQ-DIA)
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: 3D printing functional materials & devices, biomedical, bioelectronics
![Greg Metzger](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/greg-metzger_0.jpg.webp?itok=OBpcZ5Hl)
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: Ultrahigh field MRI technology development, quantitative imaging, prostate cancer
![Mueller Jochen.jpg A man wearing a pink shirt and glasses](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-08/Mueller%20Jochen.jpg.webp?itok=LmXGV-qm)
![Tay Netoff](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/netoff-tay-web_0.jpg.webp?itok=KEalQz_9)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Neurological disease therapy, neuromodulation, therapy optimizaiton
![Dave Odde](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/odde-david-web.jpg.webp?itok=d3D7hg4F)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cellular and molecular bioengineering, cancer bioengineering, modeling
![Ogle-Brenda-300-200.png Brenda Ogle headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Ogle-Brenda-300-200.png.webp?itok=z7C6oOQP)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Stem cell differentiation, extracellular matrices, 3D bioprinting
![Sang-Hyun Oh](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Sang-Yung-Oh%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=raIPz7bB)
Primary department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: Biosensing, microfluidics, protein misfolding disease diagnostics
![Alex Opitz](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/opitz-alex-web.jpg.webp?itok=UOxYYCoK)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Neuromodulation, neural engineering
![Mark Osborn](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/mark-osborn.jpg.webp?itok=8lER2WIX)
Primary department: Pediatrics
![Hongbo Pang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/hongbo_pang%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=dSd9qy_G)
Primary department: Pharmaceutics
Peptide engineering, drug delivery, nanotechnology
![angela-panoskaltsis-mortari_0.jpg Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari profile photo](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-01/angela-panoskaltsis-mortari_0.jpg.webp?itok=tbRsPFPp)
![Hye-Yeon Park](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Hye-Yoon%20Park_0.jpg.webp?itok=xICNb0Tb)
Primary department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: Neuro imaging, biomolecular engineering, biosensor engineering
![Edgar Peña](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/edgar-pena.jpg.webp?itok=Eonhv8eX)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Neural engineering, computational modeling, optimization
![Paolo Provenzano](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/provenzano-paolo-web_0.jpg.webp?itok=kT95nEUi)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cancer and immune bioengineering, cell and matrix mechanics, advanced imaging
![David Radish](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/david-redish.jpg.webp?itok=90Xl8jxh)
Primary department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Information processing in neural systems, neural modeling, computational psychiatry
![Osha Roopnarine](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Osha-Roopnarine.jpg.webp?itok=VDvp23zV)
Primary department: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Muscle contraction, SERCA regulation, spectroscopy (FRET, EPR), kinetics, drug discovery
![Jonathan Sachs](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/sachs-jonathan-web.jpg.webp?itok=mYze6N4_)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Biomolecular engineering, therapeutic discovery for neurodegeneration and inflammation
![Casim Sarkar](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/sarkar-casim-web%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=O2hknvio)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Biomolecular engineering, synthetic biology, systems biology
![Daniel Schmidt](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/daniel-schmidt.jpg.webp?itok=XvBMLRnp)
Primary department: Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Research interests: Protein engineering, viral gene delivery
![](/sites/cse.umn.edu/themes/custom/cse/img/person_placeholder.png)
Michael Schwartz
Primary department: Orthopaedic Surgery
![Wei Shen](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/shen-wei-web.jpg.webp?itok=TFUDr1zY)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Biomaterials, tissue engineering and disease modeling, medical devices
![Siegel-Ron-headshot.jpg Ronald Siegel](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-07/Siegel-Ron-headshot.jpg.webp?itok=fnSi3R33)
Primary department: Pharmaceutics / Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Drug delivery, biomaterials, pharmacokinetics
![Sivaraj (Shiv) Sivaramakrishnan](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/sivaraj-sivaramakrishnan.jpg.webp?itok=sYRc4R63)
Primary department: Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
![Gordon Smith](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/gordon-smith.jpg.webp?itok=f1sVFFG2)
Primary department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Systems neuroscience, development, networks, optogenetics, 2-photon imaging
![Alena Talkachova](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/talkachova-alena-web.jpg.webp?itok=GN9MdFKA)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac imaging, signal processing, numerical simulations
![david-thomas.jpg Headshot of David D. Thomas](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-02/david-thomas.jpg.webp?itok=S96-WI0s)
Primary department: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Research interests: Biophysical engineering, drug discovery, muscle and membrane proteins
![Gerald Timm](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/gerald-timm-4x6.jpg.webp?itok=-O6cc1TW)
Primary department: Urologic Surgery
Research interests: Urological devices, neuroengineering, biomechanical engineering
![bob-tranquillo-web.jpg Headshot of Bob Tranquillo](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/bob-tranquillo-web.jpg.webp?itok=namAk84W)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cardiovascular tissue engineering, directed cell migration
![Kamil Ugurbil](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/kamil-ugurbil_0.jpg.webp?itok=0R4QgTZN)
Primary department: Radiology
![Jerrold Vitek](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/jerrold-vitek-4x6.jpg.webp?itok=ShZxWDfR)
Primary department: Neurology
![Wang-Chun-headshot.jpg Chun Wang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-07/Wang-Chun-headshot.jpg.webp?itok=liOjj2zn)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Biomaterials & micro/nanofabrication, Immunoengineering, drug delivery
![Jing Wang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/jing-wang.jpg.webp?itok=EFXSdFaz)
Primary department: Neurology
Research interests: Neuromodulation, electrophysiology, movement disorders
![Alik Widge](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/alik-widge%20%281%29.jpg.webp?itok=qk_ykdAI)
Primary department: Psychiatry
Research interests: Psychiatric neural engineering, brain stimulation, neural decoding
![Dave Wood](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/wood-david-web.jpg.webp?itok=NOrLbLIs)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Microfluidics, sickle cell disease, tumor microenvironment
![Xiaoping Wu](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/xiaoping-wu-4x6.jpg.webp?itok=95YCjWUs)
Primary department: Radiology
Ultrahigh-field MRI, brain imaging
![Yang-Zhi-headshot_0.jpg Zhi Yang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-07/Yang-Zhi-headshot_0.jpg.webp?itok=TpLRsqFM)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Medical device, brain computer interface
![Kyoko Yoshida](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/KYoshidaHeadshot2-4x6.jpeg.webp?itok=eshX6Vpq)
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Soft tissue mechanics, pregnancy, growth and remodeling
![Jan Zimmerman](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/jan-zimmermann-4x6.jpg.webp?itok=UqM0yuTJ)
* Individuals marked with an asterisk (*) can advise MS students. They may co-advise PhD students with an eligible member of the BME Graduate Faculty, but they cannot serve as the sole PhD advisor. They may represent BME on MS and PhD examination committees.
** Individuals marked with a double asterisk (**) can advise MS students and can represent BME on MS examination committees. They cannot advise or co-advise BME PhD students or represent BME in any capacity on PhD examination committees.