Mentors
Upon their acceptance into the program, students are matched with a faculty member based on their research interests. The U-RISE program has prospective mentors from BME, Biology, and Chemistry departments.
|
NAME |
DEGREE(S) |
RANK |
PRIMARY DEPT. or PROGRAM |
RESEARCH INTEREST |
TRAINING ROLE |
|
Bryan Pfister |
BS, MS, PhD |
Professor |
BME |
Neural Engineering, Brain Injury and Repair |
PI/PD, preceptor, instructor |
|
Eunjung (Alice) Lee |
MS, PhD |
Assoc. Prof. |
BME |
Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering, Stem Cells |
Preceptor |
|
Saikat Pal |
PhD |
Asst. Prof. |
BME |
Human movement; computational biomechanics |
Preceptor |
|
Samuel Lieber |
MS, PhD |
Asst. Prof. |
SAET/BME |
Medical Device Product/Process Development |
Preceptor |
|
Sergei Adamovich |
PhD |
Professor |
BME |
Neural Engineering and Neurorehabilitation |
Preceptor |
|
Tara Alvarez |
PhD |
Professor |
BME |
Vision and Neural Engineering |
Preceptor |
|
Alex Buffone |
PhD |
Asst. Prof. |
BME |
Genetic Engineering, Biomaterials, Blood cell Biology |
Preceptor |
|
Jongsang Son |
PhD |
Asst. Prof |
BME |
Biomechanics, Neuromuscular physiology, Rehabilitation engineering |
Preceptor |
|
Vivek Kumar |
PhD |
Asst. Prof. |
BME |
Biomaterials and Drug development |
Preceptor |
|
Jonathan Grasman |
PhD |
Asst. Prof. |
BME |
Biomaterials, neural engineering, skeletal muscle engineering |
Preceptor |
|
Amir K. Miri |
PhD |
Asst. Prof. |
BME |
Bioprinting techniques and organ-on-a-chip models |
Preceptor |
|
Xianlian Alex Zhou |
PhD |
Assoc. Prof. |
BME |
Biomechanics |
Preceptor |
|
Prateek Shekhar |
PhD |
Assistant Prof. |
SAET/BME |
Engineering Education |
PI/PD, preceptor, instructor |
|
Chang Yaramothu |
BS, MS, PhD |
Assistant Prof |
SAET/BME |
Brain Injury, Medical Devices, and Functional Imaging |
Preceptor |
|
Moshe Kam |
B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D. |
Professor |
ECE/BME |
Detection, Estimation, Navigation |
Preceptor |
|
Farzan Nadim |
PhD |
Professor |
BIOL |
Neural circuits, Neural oscillations, Neuromodulation, Reinforcement learning, Addiction |
PI/PD, preceptor, instructor |
|
Daphne Soares |
PhD |
Assoc. Prof. |
BIOL |
Evolution of sensory systems and neuroethology |
PI/PD, preceptor, instructor |
|
Ashish Borgaonkar |
PhD |
Assistant Prof |
SAET/CEE |
Engineering Education |
PI/PD, preceptor, instructor |
|
Kristen Severi |
PhD |
Assist. Prof. |
BIOL |
Neural circuits and motor control |
Preceptor |
|
Jorge Golowasch |
PhD |
Professor |
BIOL |
Neural circuits, neuromodulation, circadian rhythms |
Preceptor |
|
Dirk Bucher |
PhD |
Assoc. Prof. |
BIOL |
Neural circuits, Neuromodulation |
Preceptor |
|
Horacio Rotstein |
PhD |
Professor |
BIOL |
Computational/ Theoretical Neuroscience, Neuronal circuits and oscillations |
Preceptor |
|
Gal Haspel |
PhD |
Assist. Res. Prof. |
BIOL |
Neurobiology of locomotion |
Preceptor |
|
Eric Fortune |
PhD |
Assoc. Prof. |
BIOL |
Feedback control of behavior |
Preceptor |
|
Simon Garnier |
PhD |
Assoc. Prof. |
BIOL |
Collective animal behavior |
Preceptor |
|
Omowunmi Sadik |
MS, PhD |
Distinguished Professor |
CES |
Biosensors, Medical Devices, and nanomaterials |
Precentor, Instructor |
|
Hao Chen |
PhD |
Prof. |
CES |
Mass Spectrometry |
Preceptor |
|
Edgardo Farinas |
PhD |
Associate |
CES |
Directed Evolution, protein design and engineering |
Preceptor |
|
Mengyan Li |
PhD |
Associate |
CES |
Microbiology, molecular biology, microbial ecology |
Preceptor |
|
Genoa Warner |
MS, PhD |
Assistant Professor |
CES |
Reproductive Biology, Toxicology |
Preceptor |
|
Elisa Kallioniemi |
BS, MS, PhD |
Assistant Professor |
BME |
Neural Engineering, neuromodulation |
Preceptor |
|
Sagnik Basuray |
MS, PhD |
Associate Professor |
CME |
Microfluidics, Electrokinetics, Lab-On-A-Chip, POC, POU, Sensor |
Preceptor |