Engineers in Medicine
Chemical Engineering
Ya-Wen (Winnie) Chang Ph.D.
- Soft and living matter
- Geometry and mechanical control of cell organization and behavior
- Colloid phase behavior and emulsion stabilization
- Encapsulation using mixed particle-surfactant system
- Microfluidics and 3D printing
- Biomimetic and active materials
Harvinder Singh Gill Ph.D.
- Micro− & Nano−Systems for Drug & Vaccine Delivery
- Bio−Nanomaterials
- Mucosal Vaccination
- Immunomodulation
Carla Lacerda Ph.D.
- Heart Valve Interactomes
- Cell adhesion and migration in constructs
- Mechanical regulation of cellular phenotype in 3D engineered tissue constructs
Wei Li Ph.D.
- Responsive LbL nanofilms
- Cell capture and release
- Cell microenvironments, soft materials, exosomes
- Biomedical microdevices
Jeremy Marston Ph.d.
- Ultra-high-speed imaging of fluid dynamics phenomena
- Multiphase flows; wicking in powders and porous media
- Waterless cleaning technologies for solar technologies
- Water and oil encapsulations using hydrophobic and oleophobic particulates
Siva A. Vanapalli Ph.D.
- Microfluidics
- Fluid mechanics of drops, polymer solutions and cells
- Tumor cell mechanics and cancer diagnostics
- Devices for drug screening
- Devices for C. elegans biology
Computer Science
Tommy Dang Ph.D.
- Virtual and Augmented Reality
- Big Data Visualization and Visual Analytics
- Human and Computer Interaction
- Computer Animation
- Empirical software engineering
- Statistical data analysis
Rattikorn Hewett Ph.D.
- Intelligent data understanding
- Network research and security
- Software quality assurance
Fang Jin Ph.D.
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining
- Big Data Analytics
- Graph Mining
- Anomaly Detection
- Spatiotemporal Data Analysis
Susan Mengel Ph.D
- Information retrieval, security, and assurance
- Computer science education
Abdul Serwadda Ph.D.
- Cyber Security and Privacy
- Machine Learning and Data Mining
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Mobile Computing
Yuanlin Zhang Ph.D.
- Artificial intelligence
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
Yu Zhuang Ph.D.
- Parallel computing
- High performance memory system
- Large scale computing
- Data intensive computing
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mary Baker Ph.D., P.E.
- Biomedical Signal Processing
- Neuroimaging and Cognition
- Medical Image Processing
Jo Woon Chong Ph.D.
- Biomedical Signal Processing
- Medical Instrumentation
- Identification and Modeling of Physiological Systems
- Non-Invasive Physiological Monitoring
- Home Monitoring of Health and Disease
- Wireless Communication and Networks
Changzhi Li Ph.D.
- Doppler radar for biomedical and structural health monitoring
- CMOS RF and analog circuits
- Microwave circuits
RANADIP PAL Ph.D.
- Genomic Signal Processing
- Stochastic Modeling & Control
- Computational Biology
- Image Processing
Sunanda Mitra, D.Sc.
- Image Processing
- Pattern Recognition
- Medical Imaging
- Compression
Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering
Weilong Cong Ph.D.
- Rotary ultrasonic machining of high performance aerospace materials
- Laser additive manufacturing of metal and ceramic based materials
- Ultrasonic vibration-assisted manufacturing processes
- Composite materials fabrication and machining
Jennifer Cross Ph.D.
- Lean Manufacturing
- Teams
- Performance Measurement
- Product Development
- Design and Management of Engineering
- Service and Healthcare Operations
Dongping Du Ph.D.
- Personalized modeling, monitoring and control for advanced ventricular assist device therapy in end-stage heart failure.
- Home based cardiac rehabilitation- sensing, remote monitoring, modeling, and control.
- A-fib focus localization
Timothy Matis Ph.D.
- Operations Research
- Stochastic Processes
- Queuing Theory
- Ad-hoc Communication Networks
- Conceptual Learning Theories and Virtual Learning Environments
Bryan Norman Ph.D.
- Logistics and Operations
- Healthcare Delivery
- Facility Design
- Resource and Personnel Scheduling
- Inventory Control
- Operations Research
George Zhuo Tan Ph.D.
- Electrically-activated antimicrobial medical instruments
- Conductive porous membrane with nanoparticles for disinfection
- Electrospinning technologies for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering
- Extrusion-based advanced manufacturing for polymers
- Modeling and optimization of sustainable material reprocessing
Changxue Xu Ph.D.
- Rheology of biopolymer solutions/cell suspensions
- Fabrication of microspheres/nanofibers
- 3D bioprinting of living cells/tissues
- 3D printing of functional materials
- Electrohydrodynamic jet printing
Mechanical Engineering
Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Ph.D.
- Theoretical & Numerical Descriptions of Complex Materials Ranging From:
- Colloidal Suspensions
- Functional Nanocomposite Membranes
- Metallic Glasses
- Soft Biological Matter
Ming Chyu Ph.D.
- Healthcare Engineering
- Thermal Fluid Sciences
- Energy Systems
Stephen Ekwaro-Osire Ph.D.
- Engineering Design
- Vibrations
- Orthopaedic Biomechanics
- Engineering Education
Zhaoming He Ph.D.
- Heart−Valve Tissue Mechanics
- Cardiovascular Mechano−Biology
- Cardiovascular Medical Devices
Fazle Hussain Ph.D.
- Vortex dynamics, turbulence, and measurement techniques
- Coherent structures in fluid turbulence
- Holography
- Flow noise and flow control
- Cardiovascular dynamics
- Modeling cancer growth
- Nanomedicine and nanotechnology
Jungkyu (Jay) Kim Ph.D.
- High-throughput gene/protein analysis
- Biosensor and Bioelectronics
- Programmable microfluidic platform
- Point-of-Care diagnostics
- Cell and Tissue engineering and Biomechanics
Hanna Moussa Ph.D.
- Radiation safety and control
- Dose and risk assessment
- Radiation protection and detection
- Radiation transport and modeling
- Radiation shielding
- Space radiation
- Nuclear and radiological instrumentations
Jingjing (Jenny) Qui Ph.D.
- Modeling & Simulation of Micro/Nano Flow
- Multiscale Composites
- Biological Materials
Siva Parameswaran, Ph.D.
- Designing better High frequency Oscillating Ventilators (HFOV) for critical care Pulmonary Medicine
- Modeling far-wake development behind wind turbine with swirl
- Developing computational models for turbine-turbine interaction in off-shore wind farms
- Developing unsteady, turbulence models for accurate prediction of lift-coefficients for flow around bluff bodies
- Numerical issues of a thermal model for a battery system
Suhas Pol Ph.D.
- Fluid Mechanics
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Wind Energy
- Urban Atmosphere
- Experimental Methods
- Neuro-muscular Control
James Yang Ph.D.
- Biomechanics and bio-inspired systems
- Robotics and multibody dynamic systems
- Human modeling and simulation
- Human locomotion
- Slips and falls
- Spine biomechanics
- Human-centric design
- Healthcare engineering
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