Graduate faculty
View Department of Biomedical Engineering graduate faculty members and their contact information.
Graduate Faculty
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Biomedical imaging, brain mapping, optics
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Biotransport, biopreservation, cancer bioengineering, biomaterials
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cell and tissue biomechanics and mechanobiology
Primary department: Neurology
Research interests: Biomechanical and neural engineering, Parkinson's disease motor impairments, gait and balance
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Ultrasound Imaging, photoacoustics
Primary department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Research interests: Stem cell engineering, biomaterials, biomanufacturing
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Soft tissue biomechanics and mechanobiology
Primary department: Integrative Biology and Physiology
Research interests: Systems biology, cancer, cellular signaling
Joanie Bechtold
Primary department: Orthopedic Surgery
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering / Biomedical Engineering
Primary department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Research interests: Nanomedicine, high throughput screening, systems biology
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: Magnetic resonance imaging, quantitative imaging, clinical translation, AI image analysis
Primary department: Surgery
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Biomaterials, breast cancer dormancy, systems biology, immunology
Primary department: Neuroscience
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: MR-based metabolic imaging, functional MRI, ultrahigh field MR technology, brain research
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Primary department: Neurosurgery
Research interests: Human translational electrophysiology and neuromodulation
Primary department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Research interests: Polymer physics, DNA, microfluidics
Primary department: Pharmacology
Research interests: Quantitative microscopy, data science, cancer and immune cell dynamics
Primary department: Medicine/Cardiology
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Medical devices, assistive technology, musculoskeletal systems
Primary department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Primary department: Rehabilitation Medicine
Research interests: Imaging-based biomechanics, spine mechanics
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Primary department: Medicine
Research interests: Biomedical optics & imaging, Immunoengineering, CAR T cells, mAb
Primary department: Mathematics
Research interests: Mathematical modeling, cancer evolution, treatment optimization
Primary department: Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: Magnetic resonance imaging, electron paramagnetic resonance, technical developments
Primary department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Neurophysiology, neuroimaging, computation
Primary department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Research interests: Protein engineering, drug discovery, drug delivery
Primary department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Reinforcement learning, computational neuroscience, dopamine, decision circuitry, reward learning, motor learning
Primary department: Mathematics
Research interests: Theoretical neuroscience (systems & circuits), applied stochastic processes
Primary department: Rehabilitation Science
Research interests: Rehabilitation engineering, assistive technology development, prosthetics, wheelchairs
Primary department: Radiology
7T MRI methods, deep brain stimulation (DBS), neuromodulation
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Immunoengineering, biomolecular engineering, drug delivery
Primary department: Kinesiology
Research interests: Neurorehabilitation, motor control, rehabilitation robotics
Primary department: Psychiatry
Primary department: Neural engineering, cognitive neuroscience, neuromodulation
Primary department: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Preservation of cells, low temperature biology
Primary department: Surgery
Research interests: Medical device development, cardiovascular engineering, organ transplantation, mixed reality education
Primary department: Surgery
Research interests: Clinical data science, computational modeling, device design, clinical decision making
Primary department: Rehabilitation Medicine
Research interests: Motor control, motor learning, movement rehabilitation
Primary department: Veterinary Clinical Sciences
Research interests: MRI, quantitative imaging, musculoskeletal applications
Primary department: Neurology
Research interests: Deep brain stimulation, Parkinson's disease, translational neuroscience
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Neural engineering, biomedical data science, medical device design
Primary department: Neuroscience
Kendrick Kay*
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: fMRI methods, computational neuroscience, vision, statistics
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Pluripotent stem cells, immunoengineering, genetic engineering and synthetic biology
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Engineering and applying large-scale neural recording technologies
Primary department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: Biosensors, biological applications of microelectronic devices
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: Neuroimaging, diffusion MRI, high-field MRI, brain connectivity, computational modeling
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Neuroengineering, hearing devices, neuro-immune technologies, whole person health, translational research and commercialization
Primary department: Neurosurgery
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
Primary department: Diagnostic and Biological Sciences
Research interests: Quantitative biomedical optics, tissue engineering, molecular engineering
Primary department: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: 3D printing functional materials & devices, biomedical, bioelectronics
Primary department: Radiology
Research interests: Ultrahigh field MRI technology development, quantitative imaging, prostate cancer
Primary department: Dentistry
Research interests: Tissue engineering, bioactive nanosystems, targeted delivery
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Neurological disease therapy, neuromodulation, therapy optimizaiton
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cellular and molecular bioengineering, cancer bioengineering, modeling
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Stem cell differentiation, extracellular matrices, 3D bioprinting
Primary department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: Biosensing, microfluidics, protein misfolding disease diagnostics
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Neuromodulation, neural engineering
Primary department: Pediatrics
Primary department: Physical Therapy
Research interests: Systems neuroscience, balance and gait, neurovascular aging
Primary department: Pharmaceutics
Peptide engineering, drug delivery, nanotechnology
Primary department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: Neuro imaging, biomolecular engineering, biosensor engineering
Primary department: Neurosurgery
Research interests: Spinal cord injury, stem cell derived organoids, 3D printed scaffolds
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Neural engineering, computational modeling, optimization
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cancer and immune bioengineering, cell and matrix mechanics, advanced imaging
Primary department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Information processing in neural systems, neural modeling, computational psychiatry
Primary department: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Muscle contraction, SERCA regulation, spectroscopy (FRET, EPR), kinetics, drug discovery
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Biomolecular engineering, therapeutic discovery for neurodegeneration and inflammation
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Single and collective cell behavior, biophysics, mechanotransduction
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Biomolecular engineering, synthetic biology, systems biology
Primary department: Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Research interests: Protein engineering, viral gene delivery
Michael Schwartz
Primary department: Orthopaedic Surgery
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Biomaterials, tissue engineering and disease modeling, medical devices
Primary department: Pharmaceutics / Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Drug delivery, biomaterials, pharmacokinetics
Primary department: Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Primary department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Systems neuroscience, development, networks, optogenetics, 2-photon imaging
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac imaging, signal processing, numerical simulations
Primary department: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Research interests: Biophysical engineering, drug discovery, muscle and membrane proteins
Primary department: Urologic Surgery
Research interests: Urological devices, neuroengineering, biomechanical engineering
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Cardiovascular tissue engineering, directed cell migration
Primary department: Radiology
Primary department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Protein engineering, Neural imaging, Biosensor engineering
Primary department: Neurology
Primary department: Neurology
Research interests: Neuromodulation, electrophysiology, movement disorders
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Biomaterials & micro/nanofabrication, Immunoengineering, drug delivery
Primary department: Psychiatry
Research interests: Psychiatric neural engineering, brain stimulation, neural decoding
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Microfluidics, sickle cell disease, tumor microenvironment
Primary department: Radiology
Ultrahigh-field MRI, brain imaging
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Medical device, brain computer interface
Primary department: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Soft tissue mechanics, pregnancy, growth and remodeling
* 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.