Faculty

Michael Berns, Ph.D. Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Surgery, and Cell Biology
Research Interests: photomedicine, laser microscopy, biomedical devices
Email: mwberns@uci.edu
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Elliot Botvinick, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: cellular and tissue biomechanics, cellular mechanotransduction, tissue function, vascular mechanobiology
Email: elliot.botvinick@uci.edu
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James Brody, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Single molecule dynamics, bioinformatics, functional genomics, surface plasmon resonance.
Email: jpbrody@uci.edu
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Zhongping Chen, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: microfabrication and fiber-optic based biomedical imaging systems development
Email: z2chen@uci.edu
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Bernard Choi, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: In vivo research, optical imaging, microvasculature, therapy monitoring, neurosurgery, dermatology, instrumentation development
Email: choib@uci.edu
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Steven C. George, M.D., Ph.D. William J. Link Professor and Chair of Department of Biomedical Engineering and Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences (ChEMS)
Research Interests: tissue engineering, prevascularization of implantable tissues, epithelial-mesenchymal cell communication, airway remodeling, wound healing, physiological systems modeling, and computational methods.
Email: scgeorge@uci.edu
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Enrico Gratton Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, School of Physical Sciences
Research Interests: Fast relaxation in enzymes, fluorescence properties, hydration of proteins, IR spectroscopy of biological substances, nucleic acids--fluorescent probe interactions.
Email: egratton@uci.edu

Noo Li Jeon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: soft lithography in fabricating devices
Email: njeon@uci.edu
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Tibor Juhasz, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Ophthalmology
Research Interests: laser tissue remodeling and laser-cell interactions with particular interest in ophthalmic applications.
Email: tjuhasz@uci.edu

Frithjof Kruggel, M.D. Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Signal and image processing for analysis of neurofunctional data (MRI, fMRI, PET, ERP, ERF), relation between structure and function in the human brain.
Email: fkruggel@uci.edu
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Abraham P. Lee, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and
Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: Integrated micro and nano fluidic chip processors for the manipulation and self-assembly of biomolecules and other synthesized nanoparticles.
Email: aplee@uci.edu
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Joerg Meyer, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: large-scale biomedical imaging, interactive rendering of biological and medical data sets (CT/MRI/confocal laser-scan microscopy/cryosections), and biomolecular visualization (DNA/RNA/protein folding)
Email: jmeyer@uci.edu
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Zoran Nenadic D.Sc.,  Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Adaptive biomedical signal processing, control algorithms for biomedical devices, brain-machine interfaces, modeling and analysis of biological neural networks
Email: znenadic@uci.edu
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Andrew Putnam, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences (ChEMS)
Research Interests: Cell and tissue engineering, cellular signal transduction, biomaterials, integrins/cytoskeleton
Email: aputnam@uci.edu
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William C. Tang, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Professor, Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Director, Microbiomechanics Laboratory.
Research Interests: Micro- and nano-scale technology for biomedical implants and micro-scale biomechanics.
Email: wctang@uci.edu
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Bruce Tromberg, Ph.D. Professor, BLI and Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: photon interactions with biological systems, non-invasive fiber-optic sensors
Email: bjtrombe@uci.edu
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Nancy Allbritton, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Research Interests: development of nanoscale systems to study intracellular signaling
Email: nlallbri@uci.edu
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Mark Bachman, Ph.D. Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interest: design and fabrication of microelectromechanical systems
Email: mbachman@uci.edu
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Pierre Baldi, Ph.D. Professor, Information & Computer Science.
Research Interests: bioinformatics/computational biology and probabilistic modeling/machine learning.
Email: pfbaldi@ics.uci.edu
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Lubomir Bic, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Information and Computer Science
Research Interests: distributed computing, parallel processing in biological systems
Email: lbic@uci.edu
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Bruce Blumberg, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology
Research Interests: biorobotics and functional genomics
Email: blumberg@uci.edu
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Peter Burke, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: quantum electronics and quantum information science
Email: pburke@uci.edu
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Dan M. Cooper, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics, Chief of Pediatric Pulmonology Division, and Director of General Clinical Research Center
Research Interests: Pediatric pulmonology
Email: dcooper@uci.edu
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Robert M. Corn, Ph.D.  Professor, Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences
Research Interests: Surface chemistry, surface spectroscopy, surface biochemistry, biosensors, FTIR, SPR, SHG, DNA computing, liquid-liquid interfaces
Email: rcorn@uci.edu
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Carl Cotman, Ph.D. Professor, Departments of Psychobiology and Neurology
Research Interests: computational methods in brain aging, Alzheimer's disease
Email: cwcotman@uci.edu
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Nancy A. Da Silva, Ph.D. Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: molecular biotechnology, cloned gene expression, gene amplification and integration, metabolic engineering, and protein secretion, microbial degradation of toxic substances.
Email: ndasilva@uci.edu

James Earthman, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences (ChEMS)
Research Interests: biomaterials, dental and orthopedic implants
Email: earthman@uci.edu 

Gregory R.D. Evans, M.D. Professor, Department of Surgery
Research Interests: tissue engineering
Email: gevans@uci.edu
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Ron Frostig, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychobiology
Research Interests: optical methods for brain imaging, functional organization of the cortex
Email: rfrostig@uci.edu

John Fruehauf, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Email:  jfruehau@uci.edu

Steve Gross, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology
Research Interests: in-vivo function of molecular motors, and optical tweezers
Email: sgross@uci.edu
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Zhibin Guan, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemistry
Research Interests: Synthesis of new generation of biomaterials for gene/drug delivery and tissue regeneration.
Email: zguan@uci.edu
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Ranjan Gupta, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Research Interests: In-vitro models for chronic nerve injury
Email: ranjang@uci.edu
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Christopher Hughes, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Research Interests: Endothelial cells as initiators and targets of immune responses and genes regulating endothelial cell tube formation/angiogenesis
Email: cchughes@uci.edu • http://mbb.bio.uci.edu/home.html
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James Jester, PhD. Professor, Ophthalmology
Research Interests: Cell biology of corneal wound healing
Email: jjester@uci.edu
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Joyce Keyak, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: orthopaedic biomechanics, bone mechanics, finite element analysis, quantitative computed tomography, and prosthesis design
Email: jhkeyak@uci.edu
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Baruch D. Kupperman, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Research Interests: diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, and the ocular complications of AIDS
Email: bdkupper@uci.edu
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Arthur D. Lander, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology
Research Interest: Cell Biology, Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Cancer Biology and Computational Biology
Email: adlander@uci.edu
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Richard Lathrop, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Information and Computer Science
Research Interests: computational methods in protein engineering
Email: rickl@uci.edu
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Thay Lee, Ph.D. Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Orthopedic Surgery; Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: orthopedic biomechanics
Email: tqlee@uci.edu or tqlee@med.va.gov
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G.P. Li, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: design and fabrication of microelectromechanical systems
Email: gpli@uci.edu
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Shin Lin, Ph.D. Associate Vice Chancellor, Biomedical Initiatives, and
Professor of Biological Sciences and Physiology and Biophysics.
Research Interests: The combined use of biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, and molecular biophysics to study the structure and functions of proteins involved in cytoskeletal/contractile functions and signal transduction in muscle and nonmuscle cells
Email: shinlin@uci.edu
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John Longhurst, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Medicine
Research Interests: Cardiology
Email: jcl@uci.edu
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John Lowengrub, Ph.D.  Professor, Computational Mathematics
Research Interests:
Microstructured materials, such as emulsions and polymer blends, crystals, thin films and metallic alloys, blood and biological tissues
Email: jlowengr@uci.edu
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Ray (Rui) Luo, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Research Interests: protein folding, protein structure and function prediction, molecular recognition, computational ligand screening by docking, molecular dynamics, continuum solvent models, free energy simulations, information technology in chemistry and biology Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Email: rluo@uci.edu

Marc Madou, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Miniaturization science (MEMS and NEMS) with emphasis on chemical and biological applications.
Email: mmadou@uci.edu
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Sabee Molloi, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Radiological Sciences
Research Interests: digital radiography, application of digital subtraction angiography to cardiac imaging, coronary artery flow measurement, digital image processing.
Email: symolloi@uci.edu
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J. Stuart Nelson, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Departments of Surgery and Dermatology
Research Interests: phototherapy and biomedical device development
Email: jsnelson@uci.edu
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Qing Nie, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Mathematics
Research Interests: Numerical analysis and scientific computing, computational biology, morphogens, intra- and extra- cellular signaling, modeling and simulation of tissue patterning, systems biology, and interface dynamics in materials and fluids.
Email: qnie@math.uci.edu
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David Reinkensmeyer, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: skeletal muscle control, biorobotics, and rehabilitation
Email: dreinken@uci.edu
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Philip Sheu, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: biomedical database management, Intranet/Internet technologies
Email: psheu@uci.edu
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Andrei M. Shkel, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: silicon integrated Micro-Electro-Mechanical Sensors and Actuators
Email: ashkel@uci.edu
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Padhraic Smyth, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Information & Computer Science
Research Interests: applied statistics, pattern recognition, and data mining with applications to time-series and image data.
Email: smyth@ics.uci.edu
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Roger F. Steinert, M.D. Professor of Ophthalmology Research
Research Interests: Cataract surgery, corneal transplantation, and refractive surgery.
Email: steinert@uci.edu
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Adam P. Summers. Ph.D. Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research Interests: Biomechanics and Biomaterials
Email: asummers@uci.edu
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Vasan Venugopalan, Sc.D. Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences (ChEMS)
Research Interests: optical diffusion theory, photothermal and photomechanical phenomena
Email: vasan@bli.uci.edu

Szu-Wen Wang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Biomolecular engineering, interfacial engineering, drug delivery, biomaterials, nanobiotechnology
Email: wangsw@uci.edu
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Brian Wong, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Head and Neck Surgery
Research Interests: biomedical optics, tissue engineering, and development of surgical instrumentation
Email: bjwong@uci.edu

Albert F. Yee, Ph.D. Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.
Research Interests: Physical and mechanical properties of polymers and soft materials, and how they impact nanotechnology
Email: afyee@uci.edu
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Tau-Mu Yi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Developmental & Cell Biology
Research Interests: G-protein signaling; systems biology
Email: tmy@uci.edu
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Fan-Gang Zeng, Ph.D. Professor, Head and Neck Surgery
Research Interests: cochlear implants and auditory neuroscience
Email: fzeng@uci.edu
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