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