Graduate Faculty: Cullen College of Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering

 

Faculty

 

M. Akay, John S. Dunn Chair, Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers University; Biomedical signal modeling and processing.

Y. Akay, Instructional Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers University; neuroscience and neuroengineering.

A. Bidani, Professor; Ph.D., University of Houston; mechanisms and kinetics of microvascular gas and ion transport; intracellular pH and its regulation in lung cells; mechanisms of pulmonary uptake of toxic reactive gases; pathophysiology of lung function abnormalities in acute lung injury and ARDS: physiology of cardiopulmonary support; and mathematical modeling of cellular transport processes.

R. Birla, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan; creation of 3D cardiovascular constructs, including bioengineering 3D cardiac patches, using stem cells to support the formation of cardiovascular tissue construct, developing cell based cardiac pumps, and developing scaffold-free technolgoy to support 3D heart muscle formation.

T. Chen, Instructional/Reserach Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Arizonia State University; effects of nicotine exposure and prefrontal cortex transection, analysis of single-unit neural recording data.

A. Dragomir, Reserach Assistant Professor; Ph.D, University of Patras, Greece; innovative datamining, pattern recognition and machine learning algorithms, time series analysis, complex networks modeling, neural engineering, bioinformatics.

H. Gifford, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Arizonia; Image formation and reconstruction for medical imaging; objective assessment of imaging systems; visual perception and sources of observer variability; image classificaiton and pattern recognition; statistical decision and estmation theory; parallel-computing applicaiotns in imaging.

K. Larin, Associate Professor; Ph.D, University of Texas Medical Branh in Galveston; biomedical engineering/optics siwth particular emphasis on diagnostic imaging, biosensing, microscopy and classification of tssues.

E. May, Associate Professor; Ph.D, North Carolina State Universitiy; bioinformatics, infectious disease and immunity, biomolecular modeling, computational biosensor platform technologies.

 

 

Adjunct Professor

 

William E. Cohn, (1) Minimally Invasis Surgical Technology, Texas Heart Institute; Baylor College of Medicine, Director and Associate Professor of Surgury, Transplant and Assist Devices.

Mauro Ferrari, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

James M. Musser.  The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Fondren Foundatino Distinguished Endowed Chair; Director, Center for Molecular and Translational Human Infectious Diseases Research; Associate Chairman, Department of Pathology.

Philip C. Nobel, The Methodist Hospital, John S. Dunn Professor of Orthopedic Surgery

Alexander A. Oraevsky, Fairway Medical Technologies, Houston, Vice President of Research and Development

Shoude Change, National Research Council of Canada.  Senior Research Officer.

Dongfang Wang, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Assistant Professor; Director of Artifical Organ Laboratory, Cardiothoracic Surgury.

Stephen Wong, The Methodist Hospital

 

Affiliated Faculty

 

Vemuri Balakotaiah. Professor of Chemical Engineering

Richard Willson, Professor of Chemical Engineering

Ji Chen, Associate Professsor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

John Glover, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ben Jansen, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Haluk Ogmen, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Paul Ruchhoeft, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wei-Chuan Shih, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wanda Wosik, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Yi-Chao Chen, Professor of Mechnical Engineering

Matthew Franchek, Professor of Mechnical Engineering

Ralph Metcalfe, Professor of Mechnical Engineering

Dan Graur, Professor of Biology & Biochemistry

Vallabh Das, Associate Professor, Optometry

Adrian Glasser, Associate Professor, Optometry

Xiaolian Gao, Professor of Biology & Biochemistry

Heidi Hofer, Assistnat Professor of Optometry

Ioannis Kakadiaris, Professor of Computer Science

Daniel Martinez, Associate Professor, Health and Human Performance

Jason Porter, Assistnat Professor of Optometry

Catalog Publish Date: January 14, 2013
This Page Last Updated: December 20, 2012