Graduate Faculty
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Awad, Hani
- Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Donald and Mary Clark Professorship of Orthopaedics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- hani_awad@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5268
- 1.8531 Medical Center
Interests: Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
B
Baran, Tim
- Assistant Professor of Imaging Sciences
Assistant Professor of Optics
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- timothy.baran@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5340
Interests: Biomedical optics; photodynamic therapy; medical image processing
Berger, Andrew J.
- Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- ajberger@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 273-4724
- 405 Goergen Hall
Interests: Biomedical Optics; Optics Education
Brown III, Edward
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
James P. Wilmot Cancer Center
- edward_brown@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5918
- 5-7224A Medical Center
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
- mark.buckley@rochester.edu | (585) 276-4195
- 317 Goergen Hall
Interests: Viscoelasticity in soft biological tissues; Soft tissue aging, disease and repair
C
Carney, Laurel H.
- Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
- laurel.carney@rochester.edu | (585) 276-3948
- 5-7617 Medical Center
Interests: Auditory neuroscience; Neurophysiological, behavioral, and computational studies of hearing; Signal processing for hearing aids
Choe, Regine
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- regine.choe@rochester.edu | (585) 273-4374
- MC 5-7233A Med Center
Interests: Diffuse optics for in vivo cancer detection, diagnosis and therapy monitoring
Clark, Robert
- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- robert.clark@rochester.edu | (585) 275-¿593
- 214 Hopeman
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
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
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Director, Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound
- diane.dalecki@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7378
- 308 Goergen Hall
Interests: Biomedical ultrasound, acoustics, lithotripsy, biological effects of ultrasound.
DeLouise, Lisa A.
- Associate Professor of Dermatology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- lisa_delouise@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1810
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
- m.doyley@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3774
- 518 Chair Office / 621 Faculty Office Computer Studies Building
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
G
Gdowski, Greg T.
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Executive Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
- ggdowski@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2580
- 310 Goergen Hall
Interests: Teaching Area — The process of commercialization of medical technologies from identifying unmet clinical needs to the design, fabrication, marketing, regulatory, and intellectual property aspects of creating medical technologies and devices
Giacomelli, Michael
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Optics
- m.giacomelli@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8145
- 5-8527 Medical Center
Interests: Multiphoton Microscopy, Surgical Imaging, Digital Pathology, Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging, 3D and molecular imaging
H
Henry, Kenneth S.
- Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- kenneth_henry@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4851
Herrera-Perez, Marisol
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- marisol.herreraperez@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2312
- 215 Goergen Hall
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
Interests: Regulation of cell behavior by the extracellular matrix
Howard, Thomas
- Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- thoward@ece.rochester.edu | (585) 275-3755
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding
L
Lalor, Edmund
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Edmund_Lalor@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-3077
- 2.B203A Center for Advanced Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology (CABIN), Medical Annex Building
Interests: Human sensory neurophysiology; Brain-computer interfacing; Computational neuroscience; Neural encoding of natural sounds; Sensory processing in psychiatric and developmental disorders
Lee, Whasil
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
- Whasil_Lee@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 276-4631
- 4-8553 Medical Center
Interests: Musculoskeletal cell mechanics, Mechanosensitive Ion channels, Knee joint tissue development, aging, disease and repair
Lerner, Amy L.
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Academic Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
- amy.lerner@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7847
- 307 Goergen Hall
Interests: Orthopaedic biomechanics, medical image-based finite element modeling, knee biomechanics, medical device design, cornea mechanics
Loiselle, Alayna E.
- Associate Professior of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- alayna_loiselle@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7239
Luebke, Anne E.
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- anne_luebke@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 273-1635
- 6-8547 Medical Center
Interests: Role of cochlear outer hair cells in hearing and hearing loss, at both the molecular and systems levels
M
Maddox, Ross
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- ross.maddox@rochester.edu | (585) 275-1835
- 2-B203B Center for Advanced Brain Imaging and Neurophysiology (CABIN), Medical Annex Building
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
- stephen.mcaleavey@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7768
- 210A Goergen Hall
Interests: Development of novel, clinically applicable ultrasound imaging techniques
McGrath, James
- Dean's Professor
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- james.mcgrath@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5489
- 306 Goergen Hall
Interests: Cell motility; Quantitative light microscopy
Miller, Benjamin
- Professor of Dermatology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Optics
- benjamin_miller@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9805
Interests: Carbohydrate and protein recognition, molecular design, and biomolecular sensing
N
Nam, Jong-Hoon
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- jong-hoon.nam@rochester.edu | (585) 273-4555
- 203 Hopeman
Interests: Biophysics of inner ear sensory cells; Cell mechanics
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)
- kevin.parker@rochester.edu | (585) 27-5329
Interests: Carbohydrate and protein recognition, molecular design, and biomolecular sensing
R
Rolland, Jannick
- Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering
Professor of Optics and 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
- rolland@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 752-1013
- 505 Goergen Hall
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
S
Schieber, Marc H.
- Professor of Neurology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor, Center for Visual Science
Interests: Neural Control of Individuated Finger Movements
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
Interests: Pro-inflammatory cytokine signal transduction and novel drug and gene therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Seidman, Scott
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
Center for Visual Science
- scott_seidman@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-3932
- 216 Goergen Hall
Interests: Vestibular systems, motor learning, physiological models, multi-sensory integration
W
Waugh, Richard E.
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics
- richard.waugh@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3768
- 218 Goergen Hall
Interests: Cell Adhesion, Mechanical and thermodynamic properties of biological membranes; cellular mechanics and function of cytoskeletal proteins
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 - Director, Center for Visual Science
- david@cvs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-8672
- 270 Meliora Hall
Interests: The Human Visual System; Physiological Optics
Wilson, Nicole
- Assistant Professor of Surgery, Pediatric Surgery
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor or Pediatrics
- nicole_wilson@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4435
Wismueller, Axel
- Professor of Imaging Sciences, of Biomedical Engineering, and of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Axel_Wismueller@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 613-2399
- MCA 2-2214 Medical Center
Interests: Mathematical algorithms for computational analysis; Pattern recognition in clinical real-world applications
Wu, J.H. David
- Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering
Interests: Biochemical Engineering, Fermentation, Biocatalysis, Bone Marrow Tissue Engineering, Molecular Biology
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
- zavislan@optics.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9819
- 414 Goergen Hall
Interests: Optical Engineering; Biomedical Optical Systems
Zhang, Xinping
- Associate Professor of Orthopaedics, Center for Musculoskeletal Research
- xinping_zhang@urmc.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7928
Interests: Understanding bone tissue repair using molecular, genetic, imaging and engineering approaches
Zhong, Jianhui
- Professor of Imaging Sciences
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Development and medical application of magnetic resonance imaging