Affiliated Faculty

Tayloria Adams, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Dielectrophoresis, microfluidic devices, stem cells, biomarker development, cell membrane biophysics, cell sorting
Email: tayloria@uci.edu


Alpesh Amin, M.D.

Thomas & Mary Cesario Chair and Professor of Medicine; Biomedical Engineering; Paul Merage School of Business; Program in Nursing Science
Research Interests: Hospital medicine, quality/safety, new technologies in healthcare
Email: anamin@uci.edu


Herdeline Ann Ardoña, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Chemistry; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biomaterials, self-assembly, optoelectronics, stimuli-responsive materials, in vitro tissue models, biosensors
Email: hardona@uci.edu
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Pierre Baldi, Ph.D.

UCI Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science; Biological Chemistry; Biomedical Engineering; Developmental and Cell Biology
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, computational biology
Email: pfbaldi@ics.uci.edu
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Kevin Beier, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, computational biology
Email: kbeier@uci.edu
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Bruce Blumberg, Ph.D.

Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology; Biomedical Engineering; Environmental Health Sciences; Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests: Gene regulation by nuclear hormone receptors in vertebrate development physiology, endocrine disruption
Email: blumberg@uci.edu
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Andrew Browne, M.D.

Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Nano-electronics, bio-nanotechnology
Email: abrowne1@uci.edu
 

Peter Burke, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Nano-electronics, bio-nanotechnology
Email: pburke@uci.edu
 

Hung Cao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: MEMS, sensors, implants, heart disease, neurological disease, wireless biomedical systems
Email: hungcao@uci.edu
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Dan Cooper, M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Impact of exercise on exhaled biological gases, novel methods of assessing physical activity in infants and children using bioMEMS, impact of oxygen gradients on neutrophil trafficking
Email: dcooper@uci.edu
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Robert Corn, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Analytical, chemical biology, physical chemistry and chemical physics, polymer, materials, nanoscience
Email: rcorn@uci.edu
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Nancy Da Silva, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Molecular biotechnology
Email: ndasilva@uci.edu
 

Hamid Djalilian, M.D.

Professor of Otolaryngology; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Medical devices, hearing loss, tinnitus, dizziness/imbalance, clinical research
Email: hdjalili@uci.edu
 

James Earthman, Ph.D.

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biomaterials, dental and orthopaedic implants, green materials, nanocrystalline alloys, deformation and damage processes
Email: earthman@uci.edu
 

Rahim Esfandyar-Pour, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Nanotechnology & nanoscience, flexible electronics, MEMS & NEMS fabrication and modeling, stretchable & wearable bio devices, translational micro/nanotechnologies, biological & chemical sensors, microfluidics, microelectronics circuits & systems, physiological monitoring, Internet of Things (IOT) bio devices, technology development for personalized/precision medicine and Point of Care (POC) diagnostics
Email: rahimes@uci.edu
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Gregory Evans, M.D.

Professor of Surgery; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Aesthetic surgery, breast augmentation, cosmetic plastic surgery, craniomaxillofacial, hand surgery, head and neck reconstruction, liposuction, oncology, pelvic bone reconstruction, peripheral nerve regeneration, reconstructive microsurgery, replantation, tissue engineering
Email: gevans@uci.edu
 

Lisa Flanagan-Monuki, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Neurology; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Stem cells, neural, embryonic, neuron
Email: lflanaga@uci.edu
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Ron Frostig, Ph.D.

Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Optical methods for brain imaging, functional organization of the cortex
Email: rfrostig@uci.edu
 

Zhibin Guan, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Chemical biology, organic and synthetic, polymer, materials, nanoscience
Email: zguan@uci.edu
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Gultekin Gulsen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Radiological Sciences; Biomedical Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Physics and Astronomy
Research Interests: In vivo molecular imaging, diffuse optical tomography, fluorescence tomography, photo-magnetic imaging, multi-modality imaging
Email: ggulsen@uci.edu
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Ranjan Gupta, M.D.

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Anatomy and Neurobiology; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Hand and upper extremity surgery
Email: ranjang@uci.edu
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Payam Heydari, Ph.D.

Chancellor's Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Design and analysis of analog, radio-frequency, millimeter-wave and terahertz integrated circuits
Email: payam@uci.edu
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Frank Hsu, M.D.

Department Chair and Professor of Neurosurgey; Biomedical Engineering; Otolaryngology
Research Interests: Biomechanics of cerebral aneurysms, functional neurosurgery, epilepsy
Email:fpkhsu@uci.edu


Lan Huang, Ph.D.

Professor of Physiology & Biophysics; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biological mass spectrometry/proteomics, ubiquitin-proteasome degradation pathways, protein complexes, posttranslational modifications, protein-protein interaction
Email: lanhuang@uci.edu
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Christopher Hughes, Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Tissue engineering, growth and patterning of blood vessels
Email: cchughes@uci.edu
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Kei Igarashi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Memory, olfaction, Alzherimer's disease, hippocampus, entorhinal cortex
Email: kei.igarashi@uci.edu
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James Jester, Ph.D.

Professor in Residence, Ophthalmology; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Mechanics of wound healing and the inter-relationship of mechanical force, cell-matrix interaction, and gene expression, cellular basis of corneal transparency and the role of water-soluble proteins in isolated cell light scattering, three-dimensional and temporal imaging of cells in intact living tissue
Email: jjester@uci.edu


Joyce Keyak, Ph.D.

Professor in Residence of Radiological Sciences; Biomedical Engineering; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Bone mechanics, finite element modeling, quantitative computed tomography, prosthetic implants, osteoporosis, metastatic tumors in bone, radiation therapy
Email: jhkeyak@uci.edu
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Baruch Kuppermann, M.D.

Professor of Ophthalmology; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Ocular manifestations of AIDS, risk factors for the development of retinopathy of prematurity post partum, photodynamic therapy for the treatment of choroidal melanomas
Email: bdkupper@uci.edu
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Young Jik Kwon, Ph.D.

Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Research Interests: Gene therapy, drug delivery, cancer-targeted therapeutics, combined molecular imaging and therapy, cancer vaccine
Email: kwonyj@uci.edu
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Jonathan Lakey, Ph.D.

Professor of Surgery; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Islet transplantation for patients with diabetes, improving methods of islet isolation, characterization and developing novel methods of islet transplantation, biopolymer and encapsulation technologies
Email: jlakey@uci.edu
 

Arthur Lander, Ph.D.

Donald Bren Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology; Biomedical Engineering; Logic and Philosophy of Science; Pharmacology
Research Interests: Systems biology of development, pattern formation, growth control
Email: adlander@uci.edu
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Guann-Pyng Li, Ph.D.

Director of the UCI Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), Director of the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Email: gpli@uci.edu
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Han Li, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Biomedical Engineering
Email: han.li@uci.edu
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Jack Lin, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Neurology; Anatomy and Nuerobiology; Biomedical Engineering
Email: linjj@uci.edu
 

Ken Lin, M.D., Ph.D.

Director of Medical Education, Opthamology; Associate Clinical Professor, Opthamology; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Microbubble drug delivery, machine and deep learning, distal aqueous outflow modeling and fluid mechanics
Email: linky@uci.edu
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John Lowengrub, Ph.D.

UCI Chancellor's Professor of Mathematics; Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Applied and computational mathematics, mathematical and computational biology
Email: jlowengr@uci.edu
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Ray Luo, Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Protein structure, noncovalent associations involving proteins
Email: rluo@uci.edu
 

Marc Madou, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Fundamental aspects of micro/nano-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), biosensors, nanofluidics, biomimetics
Email: mmadou@uci.edu


John Middlebrooks, Ph.D.

Professor of Otolaryngology; Biomedical Engineering; Cognitive Sciences; Neurobiology and Behavior
Research Interests: Hearing research, neurophysiology, auditory prosthesis, computational neuroscience, auditory cortex
Email: j.midd@uci.edu
 

Sabee Molloi, Ph.D.

Professor of Radiological Sciences; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Quantitative aspects of medical x-ray imaging and its applications to cardiac and breast imaging
Email: symolloi@uci.edu
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Jogeshwar Mukherjee, Ph.D.

Professor and Director, Preclinical Imaging, Radiological Sciences, School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering
Email: j.mukherjee@uci.edu
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J. Stuart Nelson, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Surgery; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Laser surgery, port wine stains, hemangiomas, vascular birthmarks
Email: jsnelson@uci.edu
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Qing Nie, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of Mathematics; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Computational mathematics, systems biology, cell signaling, stem cell
Email: qnie@math.uci.edu
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Brian Paegel, Ph.D.

Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Drug discovery, miniaturization, microfluidics, combinatorial chemistry, DNA-encoded libraries
Email: bpaegel@uci.edu
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Pranav Patel, M.D.

Chief, Division of Cardiology; Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) and Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Intravascular imaging (OCT and IVUS), interventional cardiology research-coronary artery disease and peripheral vascular disease, medical quality and outcomes research, cardiac hemodynamics: fractional flow reserve and coronary flow reserve, preventive cardiology research
Email: pranavp@uci.edu


Medha Pathak, Ph.D.

Professor of Physiology and Biophysics; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Piezo1, ion channels, stem cells, neural stem cells, differentiation, development, mechanical forces, matrix, environment
Email: medhap@uci.edu
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Eric Potma, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Analytical, chemical biology, physical chemistry and chemical physics


David Reinkensmeyer, Ph.D.

Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology; Biomedical Engineering; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Research Interests: Robotics, mechatronics, biomedical engineering, rehabilitation, biomechanics, neural control of movement
Email: dreinken@uci.edu
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Terence Sanger, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Computational neuroscience, machine learning, failure models of biological network computing, robotic models of neurological disorders, dystonia, childhood movement disorders, biological signal processing, adaptive control, stochastic systems
Email: tsanger@uci.edu


Phillip C-Y Sheu, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering; Computer Science
Research Interests: Database systems, interactive multimedia systems
Email: psheu@uci.edu
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Xian Shi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Spatial omics, single-cell analysis, super-resolution imaging, cell biology, neural science, aging and cancer biology.
Email: xiaoyu@uci.edu
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Xiaoyu Shi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology
Research Interests: Super-resolution microscopy, cell biology, spatial transcriptomics & proteomics, cell signaling, single-cell analysis, biophysics, structural biology, systems biology and computational microscopy.
Email: xiaoyu@uci.edu
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Seu Sim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Research Interests: Macromolecular chemistry, bioengineering and materials science
Email: s.sim@uci.edu


Zuzanna Siwy, Ph.D.

Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Biomedical Engineering; Chemistry
Research Interests: Biosensing, nanotechnology, condensed matter physics
Email: zsiwy@uci.edu
 

Quinton Smith, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Biomedical Engineering
Email: quintons@uci.edu
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Ramesh Srinivasan, Ph.D.

Professor of Cognitive Sciences; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, brain development, consciousness, perception, EEG, brain dynamics
Email: r.srinivasan@uci.edu
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Peter Tseng, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: (Bio) Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, wearable technology, materials-by-design, bioelectromagnetism, nanotechnology
Email: tsengpc@uci.edu
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Vasan Venugopalan, Sc.D.

Department Chair and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Surgery; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Laser-induced thermal, mechanical and radiative transport processes for application in medical diagnostics, therapeutics, biotechnology, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
Email: vvenugop@uci.edu
 

Szu-Wen Wang, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Combining principles of self-assembly with nature-inspired macromolecular systems to engineer new materials and therapeutic strategies
Email: wangsw@uci.edu
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H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, Ph.D.

Henry Samueli Endowed Chair in Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Nanoscale measurements and characterization, scanning probe microscopy, storage technology, nano-bio measurement technology
Email: hkwick@uci.edu
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Brian Wong, M.D.

Professor of Otolaryngology; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biomedical optics, tissue engineering, development of surgical instrumentation
Email: bjwong@uci.edu
 

Xiangmin Xu, Ph.D.

Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology; Biomedical Engineering; Computer Science; Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Director of UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping
Research Interests: Neural circuits, Alzheimer’s disease, brain imaging, multi-omics, computational analysis
Email: xiangmin.xu@uci.edu
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Fan-Gang Zeng, Ph.D.

Director of Hearing Research and Professor of Otolaryngology; Anatomy and Neurobiology; Biomedical Engineering; Cognitive Sciences
Research Interests: Cochlear implants and auditory neuroscience
Email: fzeng@uci.edu
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Zhuoli Zhang, Ph.D.

Professor of Radiological Sciences; Biomedical Engineering
Email: zhuoliz1@uci.edu
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Weian Zhao, Ph.D.

Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Biomedical Engineering; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; 
Research Interests: Stem cell therapy, immunotherapeutic discovery, diagnostics and mechanobiology
Email: weianz@uci.edu
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