Doctoral Training Faculty
A
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
- Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
B
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
- Assistant Professor of Imaging Sciences
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
- Professor of Optics
Brown III, Edward
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate 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
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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
- Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering
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
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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
- Associate Professor of Otolaryngolog
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: The interaction of vision, the vestibular system, and human disease on motion perception
- Associate Professor of Otolaryngolog
D
Dalecki, Diane
- Kevin J. Parker Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering
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: Biomedical ultrasound imaging and therapy, acoustics, lithotripsy, biological effects of ultrasound
- Kevin J. Parker Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering
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
- Associate Professor of Dermatology
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
- Wilson Professor of Electronic 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
- Professor of Imaging Sciences
G
Gdowski, Greg T.
- Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering
- Executive Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
- Office Location
- 310 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
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant 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
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
H
Henry, Kenneth S.
- Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4851
- Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
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.
Hocking, Denise
- Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Regulation of cell behavior by the extracellular matrix
- Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Howard, Thomas
- Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3755
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding
- Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
L
Lalor, Edmund
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate 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
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Lee, Whasil
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant 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
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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
- Associate Professior of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
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
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
M
Maddox, Ross
- Visiting Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Auditory neuroscience; Auditory brainstem response; Audio-visual integration; Selective attention; Audiologic diagnosis
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
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
McGrath, James
- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- 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.
- Associate Professor of Imaging Sciences
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
- Professor of Dermatology
N
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
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
P
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
- William F. May Professor of Engineering
R
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
- Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering
S
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
- Professor of Orthopaedics
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
- Professor of Instruction, Biomedical Engineering & Neuroscience
W
Waugh, Richard E.
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics
- Office Location
- 218 Goergen Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3768
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Cell Adhesion, mechanical and thermodynamic properties of biological membranes; cellular mechanics and function of cytoskeletal proteins
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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
- William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics
Wilson, Nicole
- Assistant Professor of Surgery, Pediatric Surgery
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor or Pediatrics
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4435
- Web Address
- Website
- Assistant Professor of Surgery, Pediatric Surgery
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
Y
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
- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Z
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
- Professor of Optics
Zhang, Xinping
- Associate 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
- Professor of Imaging Sciences