Graduate faculty

View Department of Biomedical Engineering graduate faculty members and their contact information.

Graduate Faculty

Taner Akkin
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Biomedical imaging, brain mapping, optics
6-130 Nils Hasselmo Hall
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Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Biotransport, biopreservation, cancer bioengineering, biomaterials
241 Mechanical Engineering
Patrick Alford
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cell and tissue biomechanics and mechanobiology
6-136 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Edgar Arriaga
Primary department: Chemistry
Room 323 Smith Hall
Shai Ashkenazi
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Ultrasound Imaging, photoacoustics
6-126 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Samira Azarin
Primary department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Research interests: Stem cell engineering, biomaterials, biomanufacturing
Room 283 Amundson Hall
Victor Barocas
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Soft tissue biomechanics and mechanobiology
7-115 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Eric Batchelor
Primary department: Integrative Biology and Physiology
Research interests: Systems biology, cancer, cellular signaling
Joanie Bechtold
Primary department: Orthopedic Surgery
John Bischof
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering / Biomedical Engineering
200 Mechanical Engineering
Patrick Bolan
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: Magnetic resonance imaging, quantitative imaging, clinical translation, AI image analysis
2-138 Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
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Primary department: Chemistry
7-134 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Henry Buchwald
Primary department: Surgery
Mail Code 195 Mayo Building & Additions
Matthew Chafee
Primary department: Neuroscience
Brain Sciences Center, VA Medical Center
Wei Chen
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: MR-based metabolic imaging, functional MRI, ultrahigh field MR technology, brain research
1-211E Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
 Tianhong Cui
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
2106 Mechanical Engineering
David Darrow
Primary department: Neurosurgery
Research interests: Human translational electrophysiology and neuromodulation
420 Delaware St. SE, Room D-429
Kevin Dorfman
Primary department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Research interests: Polymer physics, DNA, microfluidics
Room 386 Amundson Hall
Daniel Duprez
Primary department: Medicine/Cardiology
270 Variety Club Research Center
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Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Medical devices, assistive technology, musculoskeletal systems
Room 2101B Mechanical Engineering
Emad Ebbini
Primary department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Room 6-163 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
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Primary department: Neuroscience
Room 6-145 Jackson Hall
Arin Ellingson
Primary department: Rehabilitation Medicine
Research interests: Imaging-based biomechanics, spine mechanics
311 Children's Rehab Center
Art Erdman
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Room 315 Mechanical Engineering
John Foker
Primary department: Surgery
420 Delaware Street SE Mayo Mail Code 495
Jasmine Foo
Primary department: Mathematics
Research interests: Mathematical modeling, cancer evolution, treatment optimization
240 Vincent Hall
Melissa Gardner
Primary department: Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
6-132 Molecular And Cellular Biology
Michael Garwood
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: Magnetic resonance imaging, electron paramagnetic resonance, technical developments
1-211B Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
Geoff Ghose
Primary department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Neurophysiology, neuroimaging, computation
149 Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
Andrew Grande
Primary department: Neurosurgery
MMC 96 Room D429
Ben Hackel
Primary department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Research interests: Protein engineering, drug discovery, drug delivery
356 Amundson Hall
Arif Hamid
Primary department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Reinforcement learning, computational neuroscience, dopamine, decision circuitry, reward learning, motor learning
4-160 Jackson Hall
Andrew Hanson
Primary department: Rehabilitation Science
Research interests: Rehabilitation engineering, assistive technology development, prosthetics, wheelchairs
noam harel
Primary department: Radiology
7T MRI methods, deep brain stimulation (DBS), neuromodulation
1-211D Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
Brittany Hartwell
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Immunoengineering, biomolecular engineering, drug delivery
7-114 Nils Hasselmo Hall
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Primary department: Kinesiology
Research interests: Neurorehabilitation, motor control, rehabilitation robotics
Cooke Hall 202A
Alexander Herman
Primary department: Psychiatry
Primary department: Neural engineering, cognitive neuroscience, neuromodulation
F282/2A West Building, 2450 Riverside Ave. S.
Wei-Shou Hu
Primary department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
285 Amundson Hall
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Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Preservation of cells, low temperature biology
2101C Mechanical Engineering
Paul Iazzo
Primary department: Surgery
Research interests: Medical device development, cardiovascular engineering, organ transplantation, mixed reality education
B172 Mayo Building & Additions
Tinen L. Iles
Primary department: Surgery
Research interests: Clinical data science, computational modeling, device design, clinical decision making
Shanie Jayasinghe
Primary department: Rehabilitation Medicine
Research interests: Motor control, motor learning, movement rehabilitation
Luke Johnson
Primary department: Neurology
Research interests: Deep brain stimulation, Parkinson's disease, translational neuroscience
Lions Research Building, Room 421B
Matt Johnson
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Neural engineering, biomedical data science, medical device design
6-134 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Prakash Kara
Primary department: Neuroscience
1-166D Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
Kendrick Kay
Kendrick Kay*
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: fMRI methods, computational neuroscience, vision, statistics
2021 6th Street SE
Aaron Kerlin
Primary department: Neuroscience
 Suhasa Kodandaramaiah
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Engineering and applying large-scale neural recording technologies
303 Mechanical Engineering
Steven Koester
Primary department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: Biosensors, biological applications of microelectronic devices
Timothy Kowalewski
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
207 Mechanical Engineering
 Christophe Lenglet
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: Neuroimaging, diffusion MRI, high-field MRI, brain connectivity, computational modeling
2-128 Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
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Primary department: Psychiatry
717 Delaware St. SE, Suite 516
Hubert Lim
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Neuroengineering, hearing devices, neuro-immune technologies, whole person health, translational research and commercialization
6-132 Nils Hasselmo Hall
John Looft
Primary department: Rehabilitation Medicine
Minneapolis VA
Walter C. Low
Primary department: Neurosurgery
Lions Research Building/McGuire Translational Research Facility, Rm 4-216
Paula Ludewig
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
311 Children's Rehab Center
Louis Mansky
Primary department: Diagnostic and Biological Sciences
Research interests: Quantitative biomedical optics, tissue engineering, molecular engineering
689 23rd Ave. SE
Michael McAlpine
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: 3D printing functional materials & devices, biomedical, bioelectronics
117 Mechanical Engineering
Greg Metzger
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: Ultrahigh field MRI technology development, quantitative imaging, prostate cancer
2-140 Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
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Primary department: Physics
418 Physics And Nanotechnology
Tay Netoff
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Neurological disease therapy, neuromodulation, therapy optimizaiton
6-122 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Dave Odde
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cellular and molecular bioengineering, cancer bioengineering, modeling
7-132 Nils Hasselmo Hall
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Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Stem cell differentiation, extracellular matrices, 3D bioprinting
7-130 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Sang-Hyun Oh
Primary department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: Biosensing, microfluidics, protein misfolding disease diagnostics
5-119 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
Alex Opitz
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Neuromodulation, neural engineering
6-118 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Mark Osborn
Primary department: Pediatrics
Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy
Hongbo Pang
Primary department: Pharmaceutics
Peptide engineering, drug delivery, nanotechnology
9-143B Weaver-Densford Hall
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Primary department: Pediatrics
2450 Riverside Avenue
Hye-Yeon Park
Primary department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: Neuro imaging, biomolecular engineering, biosensor engineering
Kenneth H. Keller Hall, Room 6-119
Edgar Peña
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Neural engineering, computational modeling, optimization
6-120 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Paolo Provenzano
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cancer and immune bioengineering, cell and matrix mechanics, advanced imaging
7-120 Nils Hasselmo Hall
David Radish
Primary department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Information processing in neural systems, neural modeling, computational psychiatry
4-142 Molecular And Cellular Biology
Osha Roopnarine
Primary department: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Muscle contraction, SERCA regulation, spectroscopy (FRET, EPR), kinetics, drug discovery
5-121 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Jonathan Sachs
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Biomolecular engineering, therapeutic discovery for neurodegeneration and inflammation
7-126 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Casim Sarkar
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Biomolecular engineering, synthetic biology, systems biology
7-128 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Daniel Schmidt
Primary department: Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Research interests: Protein engineering, viral gene delivery
Michael Schwartz
Primary department: Orthopaedic Surgery
Wei Shen
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Biomaterials, tissue engineering and disease modeling, medical devices
7-118 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Ronald Siegel
Primary department: Pharmaceutics / Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Drug delivery, biomaterials, pharmacokinetics
Room 9-127E Weaver-Densford Hall
Sivaraj (Shiv) Sivaramakrishnan
Primary department: Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
4-124 Molecular And Cellular Biology
Gordon Smith
Primary department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Systems neuroscience, development, networks, optogenetics, 2-photon imaging
1-311C Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
Alena Talkachova
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac imaging, signal processing, numerical simulations
6-128 Nils Hasselmo Hall
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Primary department: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Research interests: Biophysical engineering, drug discovery, muscle and membrane proteins
5-124 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Gerald Timm
Primary department: Urologic Surgery
Research interests: Urological devices, neuroengineering, biomechanical engineering
909 Fulton Street SE
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Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cardiovascular tissue engineering, directed cell migration
6-116 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Kamil Ugurbil
Primary department: Radiology
1-211C Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
Jerrold Vitek
Primary department: Neurology
Department of Neurology, 420 Delaware St. SE
Chun Wang
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Biomaterials & micro/nanofabrication, Immunoengineering, drug delivery
7-116 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Jing Wang
Primary department: Neurology
Research interests: Neuromodulation, electrophysiology, movement disorders
Lions Research Building, Room 407
Alik Widge
Primary department: Psychiatry
Research interests: Psychiatric neural engineering, brain stimulation, neural decoding
3-208 McGuire Translational Research Facility
Dave Wood
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Microfluidics, sickle cell disease, tumor microenvironment
7-122 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Xiaoping Wu
Primary department: Radiology
Ultrahigh-field MRI, brain imaging
2-156 Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
Zhi Yang
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Medical device, brain computer interface
6-114 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Kyoko Yoshida
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Soft tissue mechanics, pregnancy, growth and remodeling
Room 7-136 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Jan Zimmerman
Primary department: Neuroscience

* 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.

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