Faculty

Research interests: Medical image analysis, surgical image guidance, interactive and predictive surgery simulation, surgical robotics navigation, musculoskeletal applications (orthopedics, geriatrics), neurosurgical applications, physiology simulation applications, computer vision.

Research interests: Biosensors, Microfluidics, Biomanufacturing of therapeutics cells, Biomedical instrumentation, and Biomedical signal processing.

Research interests: Intelligent systems and reinforcement learning; computational modeling and medical image analysis; bioinformatics approach to genotype and phenotype brain tumor analysis and image processing; sensor signal acquisition and modeling; optical computing; automatic and biologically-inspired target recognition.

Research interests: Non-equilibrium plasmas for biomedical and dental applications; Plasma and chemical diagnostics - laser spectroscopy and other optical spectroscopy; Nanosecond pulsed power technology for plasma and biomedical applications

Research interests: Mechanical forces and physical constraints in cell function, cell adhesion in the micro-environment.

Research interests: Orthopedic biomechanics, human performance, virtual reality rehabilitation, rehabilitation engineering

Research interests: Nanoscale membrane biophysics; physiology of cells under perturbative stress (electrical, chemical, thermal, mechanical); modulation of immune response with sublethal stimuli; multiscale modeling of membranes, cells, and tissues in permeabilizing electric fields.

Research interests: Multiscale biomedical modeling software, statistical sampling of molecular dynamics, trajectories, simulated folding, prediction of large scale domain movements of biomolecules

Research interests: Pulse power for wound healing, neuron-muscular research, development of ultrawideband antennas for delivery of electromagnetic pulses for the diagnostics and treatment of internal tumors.

Research interests: Bionanotechnologies and ultrasensitive analytical methods to study nano and life sciences, bio-inspired smart molecular sensors for effective disease diagnosis and therapy.

Research interests: Kinematics and dynamics, design, CAD, product development, stress analysis, bioengineering, and simulations.

Research interests: Microfluidics, Computational Fluid Dynamics & Aeroacoustics, Design Optimization & Sensitivity analysis, High Speed & Unsteady Flows

Research interests: Use of nanosecond pulsed electric fields to understand cancer mechanisms and applications for cancer therapy, biochemistry and molecular and cell biology of cAMP signal transduction

Research interests: Stem cell biology and microenvironmental control of cell fate determination in development and tumorigenesis; cellular reprogramming and regenerative medicine; the role of non-random chromatid segregation in asymmetric cellular divisions.

Research interests: Image analysis in medical and bio-material modeling and simulation, parallel computational geometry with a focus on quality mesh generation, high-performance scientific computing.

Research interests: Medical image computing: real-time image-to-mesh conversion and non-rigid registration; high-end scientific computing: parallel mesh generation and execution models; parallel, distributed and grid computing: runtime systems and cloud computing

Research interests: Exercise; physical activity; healthy lifestyles; diabetes (prevention and management); blood flow; neuropathy; metabolism and metabolic disorders; aging; nutrition; sports performance; etc.

Research interests: Molecular biology and microbiology, diseases of aquatic organisms, with an emphasis on mycobacteriosis in finfishes.

Research interests: Arterial pulse signal measurements for arterial health assessment via microfluidic tactile sensors and vibration-model-based analysis; viscoelasticity measurements for tumor detection and differentiation; mechanical characterizations of soft tissues via microfluidic tactile sensors.

Research interests: Mechanisms available to the developing fetus for maintaining volume homeostasis, effects of drugs on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone and cardiovascular systems of the developing fetus, etiological factors in Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension in the neonate.

Research interests: Development computational methods and tools ofr biological problems that involve molecular structures, developing the simplified representations of 3-dimensional protein structure components to reduce the computation, developing the corresponding energyfunctions using statistical approaches, and improving the optimization process using the geometrical constraints computationally extracted from the protein density.

Research interests: Motivation and Learning; Rehabilitation, Patient Outcome Measures, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Acquired Speech and Cognitive Disorders

Research interests: Biologically Inspired Robotics, Surgical Robotics, Human-Robot-Collaboration, Swarm Intelligence, Embodied Cognition.

Research interests: Cyber-physical systems, medical image analysis, explainable artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and embedded systems

Research interests: Machine learning, computer-aided medical diagnosis systems, medical signal/image processing, neural network and modeling and simulation.

Research interests: Regenerative medicine, stem cell biology and therapy, tissue engineering, models for genetic disease, biotechnology.

Research interests: Impacts of nanoparticles on developing zebrafish embryos, protein-protein interaction networks for key human viruses, DNA repair and the mechanism(s) whereby ultrashort pulses are able effectively to kill melanoma cells.

Research interests: Effects of nanosecond electric pulses at cellular and subcellular levels, including neuromuscular stimulation, membrane permeabilization and repair, calcium activation, and cell death induction.

Research interests: Cell susceptibility to pulsed electric field (PEF) treatments, including identification of the mechanisms for cell death and recovery, with particular focus on plasma membrane repair. Impact of ion channels in cell response to PEF.

Research interests: Stroke rehabilitation, aphasia, limb apraxia, speech pathology

Research interests: Visual perception in the control of movements, use of perceptual information in rehabilitating movement disorders, coordination and control in healthy and diseased nervous systems, motor learning and neuroplasticity in rehabilitation.

Research Interests: Epigenetic mechanisms in tissue injury repair, regeneration, aging and age-related diseases. 1) the interactions of epigenetic reader protein with histone and other transcriptional factors in aging and in lung injury/repair; 2) histone modifications in aging and fibrosis; 3) metabolic reprogramming through epigenetic mechanism; 4) DNA methylation and crosstalk with methyl-binding proteins; 5) effects of nutrient-sensor O-GlcNAc on epigenetic enzymes; 6) age-related inflammation (SASP) in diseases  

Research interests: Implantable and wearable nanobiosensors, chemical sensors, biofuel cells, biophotonics, biomaterials, regenerative medicine, micro- and nanofabrication, BioMEMS, and embedded systems.

Research interests: Pathophysiology of cancer and cartilage biology

Research interests: Visual attention and perception, Human-automation interaction (automated driving, advanced air mobility, etc.), Eye movements, Transportation safety using driving simulation.

Research interests: Multi-modal electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques for the study of physiological indicators of workload; identification of "noncognitive factors" that influence cognitive processes, and development of training programs to reduce human error and improve performance.