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Awad, Hani
Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Donald and Mary Clark Professorship of Orthopaedics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 1.8531 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5268
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
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Baran, Tim
Assistant Professor of Imaging Sciences
Assistant Professor of Optics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5340
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biomedical optics; photodynamic therapy; medical image processing
Berger, Andrew J.
Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 405 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4724
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biomedical Optics; Optics Education
Brown III, Edward
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
James P. Wilmot Cancer Center
- Office Location
- 5-7224A Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5918
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Multiphoton laser scanning microscopy, novel in vivo imaging, and measurement techniques, tumor biology
Buckley, Mark
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 317 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4195
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Soft tissue biomechanics, surgical biomechanics, viscoelasticity and poroelasticity, novel imaging techniques to characterize soft tissue properties
C
Carney, Laurel H.
Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 5-6438 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 276-3948
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Auditory neuroscience; neurophysiological behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; signal processing for hearing aids
Castañeda, Benjamín
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 310 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5774
Interests: Development of Point-of-Care Technologies for resource limitted settings. Development of ultrasound-based imaging diagnostic techniques.
Choe, Regine
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- MC 5-7233A Med Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4374
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Diffuse optical methods based on near infared light illumination for disease detection and therapy monitoring in brain, bone, and breast
Clark, Robert
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 214 Hopeman
- rclark@rochester.edu
Interests: Dynamic systems; Measurement and control; Single-molecule mechanics; Bio-nano-manufacturing; Scaffolds for tissue engineering
Crane, Benjamin
Professor of Otolaryngology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The interaction of vision, the vestibular system, and human disease on motion perception
D
Dalecki, Diane
Kevin J. Parker Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound
- Office Location
- 308 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7378
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Diagnostic ultrasound imaging, therapeutic ultrasound, applications of ultrasound for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, physical acoustics, biological effects of ultrasound
DeLouise, Lisa A.
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1810
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Engineering Smart Bandage Bio Nanomaterials for Healing Skin
Doyley, Marvin
Wilson Professor of Electronic Imaging
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Imaging Sciences (Radiology)
Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- 518 Chair Office / 621 Faculty Office Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3774
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Therapeutic and diagnostic imaging using optical, magnetic resonance, and ultrasound imaging
Duric, Nebojsa
Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Imaging Sciences
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Gdowski, Greg T.
Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering
Executive Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
- Office Location
- 218 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2580
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Technology commercialization, start-up ventures, neural circuitry and information processing, and computational neuroscience
Giacomelli, Michael
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Optics
- Office Location
- 5-8145 Medical Center
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Multiphoton microscopy, surgical imaging, high throughput imaging, fluorescence lifetime imaging, high-speed analog and optoelectronics, design of microscopic and medical imaging systems
H
Haddas, Ram
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director, UR Medicine Motion Analysis Laboratories
Interests: My research is dedicated to improving the care of patients with musculoskeletal and neurological pathologies as well as their sequelae using Disability and Functional Outcomes Measurement (DFOMs).
Henry, Kenneth S.
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4851
Herrera-Perez, Marisol
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 215 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2312
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Tissue self-organization, biophysics of cell shape and motility, morphogenesis, mechanics of development, control of cell communication.
Hill, Cherice Natasha
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 309 Goergen
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4775
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Multi-scale biomechanics of the human temporomandibular and lower extremity joints with a particular focus on diverse populations
Hocking, Denise
Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Regulation of cell behavior by the extracellular matrix
Howard, Thomas
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3755
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding
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Irwin, Rebecca
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Mechanobiology, structure-function relationships, soft tissue mechanics, intravital multiphoton microscopy, regenerative therapies
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Lalor, Edmund
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 2.B203A Center for Advanced Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology (CABIN), Medical Annex Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3077
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Human sensory neurophysiology, brain-computer interfacing, computational neuroscience, neural encoding of natural sounds, sensory processing in psychiatric and developmental disorders
Lee, Whasil
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
- Office Location
- 4-8553 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 276-4631
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Cell mechanics and mechanotransduction, mechanosensitive ion channels, therapeutic strategies for musculoskeletal disease and joint pain
Lerner, Amy L.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Academic Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
- Office Location
- 307 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7847
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Orthopaedic bio-mechanics, cornea mechanics, cartilage mechanics, medical image- based finite element modeling, knee biomechanics
Loiselle, Alayna E.
Associate Professior of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7239
- Web Address
- Website
Luebke, Anne E.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Office Location
- 6-8547 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 273-1635
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Role of cochlear outer hair cells in hearing and hearing loss, at both the molecular and systems levels
M
McAleavey, Stephen
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound
Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 210A Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7768
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Instrumentation, signal processing, ultrasound imaging, motion tracking, elasticity imaging methods, ultrasound echo models
McGrath, James
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Translational Center for Barrier Microphysiological Systems
- Office Location
- 306 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5489
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Microphysiological systems, nanomembranes for diagnostics, and microfluidics
Mehrmohammadi, Mohammad
Associate Professor of Imaging Sciences
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7148
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The primary focus of the PURE lab at the University of Rochester is to develop novel, hybrid, and ultrasound-based diagnostic methods, and define the clinical utility of the developed technologies as it applies to detection, diagnosis, and therapy of various pathologies.
Miller, Benjamin
Professor of Dermatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Optics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9805
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Carbohydrate and protein recognition, molecular design, and biomolecular sensing
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Nam, Jong-Hoon
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Office Location
- 203 Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4555
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Biophysics of inner ear sensory cells; Cell mechanics
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Padmanabhan, Krishnan
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Center for Visual Science A&S
- Telephone
- (585) 275-0698
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The broad goal of the NCC Lab’s research is to understand the principles of computation performed by individual neurons and the neural circuits they form, and to identify how neurological and psychiatric diseases disrupt these operations.
Parker, Kevin J.
William F. May Professor of Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Imaging Sciences (Radiology)
Dean Emeritus, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
- Office Location
- 724 Computer Studies Building
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3294
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Medical Imaging; 3D and 4D Imaging; CT, MRI, and ultrasound; Multi-dimensional processing and display techniques; Doppler Imaging Techniques; Sonoelasticity; Digital Halftoning; Blue Noise Mask ; Color Halftoning
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Rolland, Jannick
Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering
Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor in the Center for Visual Science
Director, NSF/IUCRC: Center for Freeform Optics
Director, R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering
- Office Location
- 505 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 752-1013
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Optical Aberration Theory; Freeform Optics; Metasurfaces; Metaform; Optical System Design; Optical Metrology; Illumination; Instrumentation and System Engineering; Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT); Optical Coherence Elastography (OCE); Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR); Head-Worn Displays; Heads-up Displays
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Schwarz, Edward
Professor of Orthopaedics
Richard and Margaret Burton Distinguished Professor in Orthopaedics
Professor of Medicine, Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Urology
Director , Center for Musculoskeletal Research
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Pro-inflammatory cytokine signal transduction and novel drug and gene therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Seidman, Scott
Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering & Neuroscience
Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 216 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3932
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Vestibular systems, motor learning, physiological models, multi-sensory integration
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Uddin, Md Nasir
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Neuroimaging; Iron and Myelin Mapping; Microstructure Imaging; MR Angiography; Neuroinflammation
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Williams, David R.
William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics
Professor of Optics
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor in the Center for Visual Science
Director, Center for Visual Science
- Office Location
- 270 Meliora Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8672
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The Human Visual System; Physiological Optics
Wismueller, Axel
Professor of Imaging Sciences, of Biomedical Engineering, and of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Office Location
- MCA 2-2214 Medical Center
- Telephone
- (585) 613-2399
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Mathematical algorithms for computational analysis; Pattern recognition in clinical real-world applications
Wu, Chia-Lung
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1335
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Bioengineering, cellular biology, next-generation sequencing techniques and genome editing tools
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Yeh, Shu-Chi
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
- Telephone
- (585) 275-1632
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Intravital imaging-based approaches for direct visualization, quantification, and molecular profiling of the local regulatory machineries that harbor the skeletal, hematopoietic, and malignant stem cells
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Zavislan, James M.
Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Associate Professor, Center for Visual Science
Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor 2018-2021
- Office Location
- 414 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9819
Interests: Optical Engineering; Biomedical Optical Systems
Zhang, Xinping
Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7928
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Understanding bone tissue repair using molecular, genetic, imaging and engineering approaches
Zhong, Jianhui
Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Development and medical application of magnetic resonance imaging