Program Faculty | Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program Faculty

Name	Title	Email	General Research Area
Anissa Abi-Dargham	Professor and Vice Chair of Research	anissa.abi-dargham@ stonybrookmedicine.edu	Molecular imaging, pharmacology, schizophrenia and addiction
Agnieszka Bialkowska	Assistant Professor	agnieszka.bialkowska@stonybrookmedicine.edu	Inflammation within the gastrointestinal tract
Terry Button	Associate Professor	terry.button@stonybrook.edu	Advanced magnetic resonance mammography and dynamic infrared imaging
Kenneth Dill	Distinguished Professor	kenneth.dill@stonybrook.edu	Physics of how proteins fold
F. Avraham Dilmanian	Professor	avraham.dilmanian@stonybrook.edu	Experimental methods of radiation therapy with segmented beams
Joshua Dubnau	Professor	joshua.dubnau@stonybrook.edu	Investigating a novel mechanism that could underlie amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).
Berhane Ghebrehiwet	Professor	berhane.ghebrehiwet@stonybrookmedicine.edu	Structure and function of C1q receptors (C1qRs) in health and disease
Benjamin Hsiao	Professor	benjamin.hsiao@stonybrook.edu	Design, preparation, characterization and application of nanostructured soft condensed materials
Arie Kaufman	Distinguished Professor	arie.kaufman@stonybrook.edu	Computer graphics and specifically computer graphics architectures, algorithms, and languages; visualization including volume visualization and scientific visualization; user interfaces; virtual reality; and multimedia
Yu Yulee Li	Research Associate Professor	yulee.li@chsli.org	Magnetic resonance imaging research on technical development and clinical applications: Image reconstruction for high-speed MRI data acquisition; Machine learning for clinical MRI reconstruction and post-processing; Real-time cardiac imaging for functional and anatomy examination; Blood flow and myocardium strain modeling from real-time cardiac MRI data.
Jerome Liang	Professor	jerome.liang@stonybrook.edu	Developing medical image reconstruction and processing technologies for computerized early detection, diagnosis and management of cancers and other diseases; virtual endoscopy, biopsy and surgery
Richard Lin	Professor	richard.lin@stonybrook.edu	Physiological functions and pathological roles of PI3Ks
Richard McCombie	Professor	mccombie@cshl.edu	Developing databases, data-analysis tools, and user interfaces to organize, manage, and visualize that vast body of information
Lisa Miller	Biophysical Chemist	lmiller@bnl.gov	Study of the chemical makeup of tissue in disease using high-resolution infrared and x-ray imaging at the NSLS
Pratha Mitra	Professor	mitra@cshl.edu	Behavior of complex biological systems, both from a mechanistic, physico-chemical perspective, and from an engineering perspective emphasizing function
Klaus Mueller	Professor	mueller@cs.sunysb.edu	Medical, scientific and information visualization, visual analytics, medical imaging, computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, and high-performance computing
Pavel Osten	Associate Professor	osten@cshl.edu	Automated microscopy and bioinformatics methods for whole-brain analysis in the mouse
Ramin Parsey	Professor and Chair	ramin.parsey@stonybrookmedicine.edu	Imaging modalities to investigate psychiatric and neurological disorders
Scott Powers	Professor	robert.powers@stonybrookmedicine.edu	Identification and functional characterization of cancer genes
Miriam Rafailovich	Professor	miriam.rafailovich@stonybrook.edu	Surface and interface properties of polymer thin films, nanocomposite materials, phase segregation in polymer blends
Robert Rizzo	Professor	rizzorc@gmail.com	Computational structural biology
Joel Saltz	Professor and Founding Chair	joel.saltz@stonybrookmedicine.edu	Development of digital pathology tools, algorithms, methods, infrastructure support quantitative analysis; development of techniques and tools to enable deep integrative translational research of pathology; development of biomedical informatics methods and tools to generate actionable clinical phenotype information
David Schlyer	Senior Scientist	schlyer@bnl.gov	Development of multi-modality imaging
Kenneth Shroyer	The Marvin Kuschner Professor and Chair	kenneth.shroyer@stonybrookmedicine.edu	Cancer biomarkers
Carlos Simmerling	Professor and Associate Director	carlos.simmerling@stonybrook.edu	Computational structural biology
Balaji Sitharaman	CTO	balaji.sitharaman@stonybrook.edu	Functional nanobiosystems for simultaneous diagnostics and therapeutics (theranostics); multidimensional supramolecular biosystems for imaging, drug delivery and tissue regeneration; nanobio-interface devices for tissue regeneration
Steven Skiena	Distinguished Teaching Professor	skiena@cs.sunysb.edu	Algorithm design and its applications to biology
Raffaella Sordella	Associate Professor	sordella@cshl.edu	How do tumors become addicted to certain gene products, and how do tumors develop resistance to anti-cancer drugs
Esther Takeuchi	Distinguished Professor	esther.takeuchi@stonybrook.edu	Cutting-edge research in electrochemistry, batteries and their intersection with human health
Flaminia Talos	Assistant Professor	flaminia.Ionas@stonybrookmedicine.edu	Clonal dynamics and single cell transcriptomics of luminal epithelial cells in aging and cancer
Kevin Tracey	Director, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research	traceyk@nshs.edu	Individual mediators of systemic inflammation, and their regulation
Nashaat Turkman	Assistant Professor	nashaat.Turkman@stonybrookmedicine.edu	Molecular Imaging- development of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) radiotracers for oncology and neuroscience applications.
Jared Van Snellenberg	Assistant Professor	jared.vansnellenberg@stonybrookmedicine.edu	Development of novel signal processing and statistical methods for pre- and post-processing of brain functional MRI data in populations with psychotic disorders
Chuck Venditti	Senior Investigator	venditti@mail.nih.gov	Inborn errors of metabolism, the hereditary methylmalonic acidemias (MMA), and disorders of intracellular cobalamin metabolism
Peter Westcott	Assistant Professor	westcott@cshl.edu	Analysis of the immune system and cancer coevolution, with the goal of expanding the curative potential of immunotherapy. Patients
Wei Zhao	Professor	wei.zho@stonybrook.edu	Development of novel detector concept and new clinical applications for early detection of cancer