Faculty

Antaki, James F.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1991, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/antaki/
Publications
Email Name: antaki
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 9857
Fax: 412 268 9807
Address: PTC 4321
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
700 Technology Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Research Areas: Experimental and computational cardiac fluid dynamics; rheology of blood and mechanics of the heart muscle; computational medical device design and optimization; pediatric and adolescent artificial hearts; cardiac surgical planning

Armitage, Bruce A.
Professor of Chemistry, Biological Sciences,
and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1993, University of Arizona
http://www.chem.cmu.edu/groups/army/

Publications
Email Name: army
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 4196
Fax: 412 268 1061
Address: Mellon Institute 722
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Luminescent probes for cell imaging; probes for manipulating gene expression

Bruchez, Marcel P.
Associate Research Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1998, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.chem.cmu.edu/groups/bruchez/
Publications
Email Name: bruchez
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 9661
Fax: 412 268 6571
Address: Mellon Institute 292
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Fluorescent probes for cell imaging; luminescent nanocrystal probes

Campbell, Phil G.
Research Professor, Institute of Complex Engineering Systems, Biomedical Engineering, Biological Sciences, Materials Science & Engineering
Ph.D., 1985, Pennsylvania State University
http://www.ices.cmu.edu/phil_campbell.html
Publications
Email Name: pcampbel
Server: cs.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 4126
Fax: 412 268 5229
Address: Hamburg Hall 1213
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Bioavailability and proteolytic processing of growth factors; musculoskeletal tissue repair and regeneration; biomimetic tissue engineering materials

Choset, Howie
Associate Professor, Robotics Institute, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., 1996, California Institute of Technology
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/person.html?person_id=47
Publications
Email Name: choset
Server: cs.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 2495
Fax: 412 268 7350
Address: Newell Simon Hall 3211
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Surgical robotics, snake robots, path planning, motion control, mapping


Crowley, Justin C.
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 2000, Duke University
http://www.cmu.edu/bio/faculty/crowley.shtml
Publications
Email Name: jcrowley
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 9806
Fax: 412 268 8423
Address: Mellon Institute 159B
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Formation of neural circuitry in the visual system

Dahl, Kris N.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering
Ph.D., 2004, University of Pennsylvania
http://dahl.cheme.cmu.edu/
Publications
Email Name: kndahl
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 9609
Fax: 412 268 7139
Address: Doherty Hall A222
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Mechanics of the cell nucleus in normal and disease states; nuclear mechanics in stem cell differentiation and cancer progression; mechanotransduction; cellular interactions with nanomaterials

Domach, Michael M.
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1983, Cornell University
http://www.cheme.cmu.edu/people/faculty/md0q.htm
Publications
Email Name: md0q
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 2246
Fax: 412 268 7139
Address: Doherty Hall A221
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: High throughput systems for cell growth analysis; optimization of bioreactor performance

Finol, Ender
Associate Research Professor, Institute for Complex Engineering Systems, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., 2002, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.ices.cmu.edu/ender_finol.html
Publications
Email Name: finole
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 1841
Fax: 412 268 5229
Address: Hamburg Hall 1205
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Fluid mechanics of the cardiovascular system; biomechanics of vascular aneurysms; continuum mechanics modeling of growth and remodeling of aneurysms; segmentation algorithms for medical imaging; design and assessment of cerebral protection devices and intravascular thrombectomy devices

Ho, Chien
Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1961, Yale University
http://www.cmu.edu/bio/faculty/ho.html
Publications
Email Name: chienho
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 3395
Fax: 412 268 7129
Address: Mellon Institute 649
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Migration of immune cells in vivo; immune response to organ transplantation; MRI-based in vivo imaging

Hollinger, Jeffrey O.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences
D.D.S., 1973, University of Maryland
Ph.D., 1981, University of Maryland
http://www.btec.cmu.edu/people/faculty/hollinger/hollinger2.htm
Publications
Email Name: hollinge
Server: cs.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 6498
Fax: 412 268 8641
Address: PTC 4323
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
700 Technology Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Research Areas: Bone tissue engineering involving biomaterials, biologicals, imaging, histology-histomorphometry, in vitro and in vivo animal models; repair of bone fracture and gaps

Jaramaz, Branislav
Associate Research Professor, Robotics Institute and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1992 , Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/person.html?person_id=128
Publications
Email Name: branko
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 8407
Fax: 412 605 6376
Address: Newell Simon Hall A413
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Computer-assisted surgery; surgical planning and simulation

Kanade, Takeo
U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor, Robotics Institute and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1974, Kyoto University
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/person.html?person_id=136
Publications
Email Name: tk
Server: cs.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 3016
Fax: 412 268 5570
Address: Newell Simon Hall 4119
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Computer vision-based object tracking in microscopic images; computer-assisted surgery

Kovacevic, Jelena
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., 1991, Columbia University
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jelenak/
Publications
Email Name: jelenak
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 2662
Fax: 412 268 9580
Address: Hamerschlag Hall C121
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Processing and analysis of microscope images; multiresolution/multiscale image processing methods; processing and analysis of medical images

LeDuc, Philip R.
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Biological Sciences
Ph.D., 1999, Johns Hopkins University
http://leduc.me.cmu.edu/
Publications
Email Name: prleduc
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 2504
Fax: 412 268 3348
Address: Scaife Hall 420
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Molecular and cellular biomechanics; mechanotransduction; biological microfluidics and MEMS; molecular micropatterning

Loesche, Mathias
Professor of Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1986, Technical University of Munich
http://www.cmu.edu/smsl/index.html
Publications
Email Name: quench
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 2735
Fax: 412 268 8252
Address: Wean Hall 6311
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Molecular biophysics; engineering of model membranes; biophysical mechanism of disease; functional, structural and dynamic characterization of protein-membrane interaction

Mandal , Maumita
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 2001, Ctr for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
http://www.chem.cmu.edu/groups/mandal/
Publications
Email Name: mandal
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 4213
Fax: 412 268 1061
Address: Mellon Institute 756
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Single molecular mechanical manipulations; optical twizzers; mechanics of single RNA molecules and RNA-small molecule interactions

McHenry , Michael E.
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1988, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://neon.mems.cmu.edu/mchenry/web/McHenryHome.html
Publications
Email Name: mm7g
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 2703
Fax: 412 268 3113
Address: Roberts Hall 243
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Magnetic nanoparticles for tagging cells and MRI enhancement; cellular interactions with nanocrystalline magnetic materials; cellular effects of RF heating of magnetic nanoparticles; applications of magnetic nanoparticles and ferrogels in tissue engineering

Moura , Jose M. F.
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1975, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~moura/
Publications
Email Name: moura
Server: ece.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 6341
Fax: 412 268 3890
Address: Baker/Porter Hall B20
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Post processing and interpretation of medical images; automated image segmentation; registration, classification, and interpretation; MRI imaging; microwave non-invasive imaging

Murphy, Robert F.
Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology and Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Machine Learning
Ph.D., 1980, California Institute of Technology
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/murphy/
Publications
Email Name: murphy
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone:        412 268 3480
Fax: 412 268 2977
Address: Hamerschlag Hall C120
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Applications of machine learning in biological imaging; automated extraction of knowledge from complex cellular images

Pekkan, Kerem
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., 2000, Middle East Technical University
http://www.cmu.edu/biofluids/
Publications
Email Name: kpekkan
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 3027
Fax: 412 268 9807
Address: PTC 4317
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
700 Technology Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Research Areas: Cardiovascular fluid dynamics in embryonic, normal, and diseased states; fluid-tissue interactions; cardiovascular surgical planning; biomimetic circulation systems

Przybycien, Todd M.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering Ph.D., 1989, California Institute of Technology
http://www.cheme.cmu.edu/people/faculty/todd.htm
Publications
Email Name: todd
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 3857
Fax: 412 268 1173
Address: Doherty Hall 3109
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: CMOS-MEMS-based biosensors; protein structure characterization; processing of pharmaceutical proteins; protein drug delivery

Rabin, Yoed
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
D.Sc., 1994, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
http://www.me.cmu.edu/faculty1/rabin/BiothermalTechnologyLaboratory.htm
Publications
Email Name: rabin
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 2204
Fax: 412 268 3348
Address: Scaife Hall 306
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Heat and mass transfer in biological systems; mechanical aspects of cryobiology; cryopreservation; cryosurgery devices & techniques; computerized planning of cryosurgery

Riviere, Cameron N.
Associate Research Professor, Robotics Institute and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1995, Johns Hopkins University
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/person.html?person_id=248
Publications
Email Name: camr
Server: ri.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 3083
Fax: 412 268 7350
Address: Newell Simon Hall 3107
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Robotics for microsurgery and minimally invasive surgery; precision tracking in microsurgery

Rohde, Gustavo K.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 2005, University of Maryland
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gustavor/
Publications
Email Name: gustavor
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 3684
Fax: 412 268 9580
Address: Hamerschlag Hall C122
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Automated image modeling; automated annotation of biological images; methods for image registration, segmentation, detection, and estimation; automated digital pathology

Schneider, James W.
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1998, University of Minnesota
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jamess3/index.htm
Publications

Email Name: schneider
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 4394
Fax: 412 268 7139
Address: Doherty Hall 3121
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Nanoemulsions for DNA separation; novel biomimetic materials for bioseparation and biosensing

Shimada, Kenji
Professor,  Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Robotics Institute, and Institute of Complex Engineering Systems
Ph.D., 1993, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/shimada/
Publications
Email Name: shimada
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 3614
Fax: 412 268 3348
Address: 314 Scaife Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Computer-assisted surgery; human body simulation

Sitti , Metin
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Institute of Complex Engineering Systems, and Robotics Institute
Ph.D., 1999, Tokyo University
http://nanolab.me.cmu.edu/
Publications
Email Name: msitti
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 3632
Fax: 412 268 3348
Address: 320 Scaife Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Nanoprobe based robots for micromanipulation; microrobotics for diagnosis and surgery

Stetten, George D.
Research Professor, Robotics Institute and Biomedical Engineering M.D., 1991, State University of New York Syracuse Health Center Ph.D. 2000, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/person.html?person_id=677
Publications
Email Name: stetten
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 4845; 412 624 7762
Fax: 412 383 8788
Address: Newell Simon Hall A411
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Statistics and geometry of image analysis; psychophysics of image perception/cognition; medical image guidance with in-situ virtual images; fingertip visual to haptic transducers

Tilton, Robert D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Ph.D., 1991, Stanford University
http://tiltongroup.cheme.cmu.edu/
Publications
Email Name: tilton
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 1159
Fax: 412 268 7139
Address: Doherty Hall 3111
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Nanoparticle probes; nanoparticle-cell interactions; environmental effects of nanoparticles; surfactant-based carriers for pulmonary drug delivery; protein adsorption and protein drug delivery; cell sorting technologies

VanBriesen, Jeanne M.
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D. 1998, Northwestern University
http://www.ce.cmu.edu/~jeanne/
Publications
Email Name: jeanne
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 4603
Fax: 412 268 7813
Address: Porter Hall 123G
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Pathogen detection; biofilm formation

Waggoner, Alan S.
Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1969, University of Oregon
http://www.cmu.edu/bio/faculty/waggoner.html
Publications
Email Name: waggoner
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 3456
Fax: 412 268 6571
Address: Mellon Institute 294B
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Optical biosensors for cell imaging and high throughput assays

Wang, Yu-li
Professor and Head of Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1980, Harvard University
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~yuliwang
Publications
Email Name: yuliwang
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 4442
Fax: 412 268 9807
Address: PTC 4105-07
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
700 Technology Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Research Areas: Mechanisms of cell division and migration; mechanics of cell-matrix interactions; mechanotransduction; live cell imaging; image processing in fluorescence imaging; micromanipulation

Washburn , Newell R.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science & Engineering
Ph.D. 1998, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.chem.cmu.edu/groups/washburn/
Publications
Email Name: washburn
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 2130
Fax: 412 268 6897
Address: Mellon Institute 725B
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Bioactive polymers for wound healing and regenerative medicine; biopolymer mediated manipulations of cytokines and growth factors

Weiss, Lee E.
Research Professor, Robotics Institute, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering
Ph.D., 1984, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lew/
Publications
Email Name: lew
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 7657
Fax: 412 268  5571
Address: Newell Simon Hall 3113
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Computer vision-based cell tracking; bioprinting for tissue engineering; biofabrication; protein-based plastics; biodegradable electronics

Yang, Ge
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Lane Center for Computational Biology
Ph.D., 2004, University of Minnesota
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/geyang/
Publications
Email Name: geyang
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 3186
Fax: 412 268 2977
Address: Lane Center for Computational Biology
Mellon Institute 403
4400 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Cell molecular mechanics; mechanics of cell division; function and regulation of motor proteins in intracellular transport; bioimage informatics; computer vision for live cell imaging; computational and statistical analysis of cell dynamics; single molecular imaging

Yu, Byron
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ph.D., 2007, Stanford University
http://npl.stanford.edu/~byronyu
Publications
Email Name: byronyu
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 2580
Fax: 412 268 9807
Address: Department of Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
700 Technology Drive, Room 4105
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Research Areas: Neural signal processing; machine learning approaches in neuroscience; neural prosthetic systems

Zapanta , Conrad M.
Teaching Associate Professor and Associate Head of Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 1997, Pennsylvania State University
http://www.bme.cmu.edu/people/conrad.html
Publications
Email Name: czapanta
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 9061
Fax: 412 268 1173
Address: Smith Hall 125D
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Prosthetic cardiac valves, cardiac assist devices

Zappe, Stefan
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 2002, Technical University of Berlin
http://zappe.bme.cmu.edu
Publications
Email Name: zappe
Server: cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 9618
Fax: 412 268 6571
Address: Mellon Institute 159
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: High-throughput confocal fluorescence imaging technologies for cell/embryo-based screens; bio-MEMS for automated cell handling and manipulation; synthesis of nanoparticles for labeling and MRI tracking of stem cells and drug/gene deliveries; stem cell systems biology and engineering; generation of complex modular tissue engineering constructs

Zhang, Yongjie Jessica
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D., 2005, University of Texas at Austin
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jessicaz/
Publications
Email Name: jessicaz
Server: andrew.cmu.edu
Telephone: 412 268 5332
Fax: 412 268 3348
Address: Scaife Hall 303
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Research Areas: Finite element method and its applications in biomechanics; image-based geometric modeling and mesh generation; image processing and analysis; patient-specific geometric modeling for cardiovascular surgical planning; geometric modeling and active site detection for molecular/protein structures; geometric modeling and mesh generation from medical imaging data; computer-assisted surgery
 
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