Affiliated Faculty

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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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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Rui Chen, Ph.D.

Professor of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences; Physiology and Biophysics; Biomedical Engineering 
Research Interests: Genetic and Genomics, Bioinformatics, Gene therapy and Genome Editing, Deep learning and AI, Visual system
Email: rui.chen@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 

Monica A. Daley, Ph.D.

Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 
Director, Center for Integrative Movement Sciences (https://cims.uci.edu/)
Research Interests: Bio-inspired robotics, biomechanics of locomotion, neural control of movement, muscle-tendon biomechanics. 
Email: madaley@uci.edu
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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

Asuka Eguchi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Research Interests: Heart failure, gene therapy, neuromuscular disease, iPSC models
Email: asuka.eguchi@uci.edu 
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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

Jennifer Gelinas, M.D, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Pediatrics, Anatomy and Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, Neurology
Research Interests: Learning and memory, epilepsy, computational neuroscience, neural interface devices, responsive neuromodulation
Email: gelinasj@hs.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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Barbara Jusiak, Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, SOM - Physiology & Biophysics 
Research interests: Synthetic biology, gene circuits, macrophages, cancer-host interactions, Drosophila 
Email: bjusiak@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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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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Wei Li, Ph.D.

Grace B. Bell Endowed Chair and Professor of Bioinformatics, SOM - Biological Chemistry 
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, epigenetics, liquid biopsy and human genomics 
Email: wei.li@uci.edu
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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

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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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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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

Diego A. Pizzagalli, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior & Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Founding Director, Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries; Noel Drury MD Endowed Chair
Research Interests: Human neuroimaging and electrophysiology, Computational Psychiatry, Depression, Anhedonia
Email: dpizzaga@hs.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 Email: epotma@uci.edu
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Kurt Qing, M.D.

Assistant Professor, SOM - Neurology
Research Interests: Epilepsy, EEG and electrophysiology, medical devices 
Email: kyqing@hs.uci.edu 

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 

Seu Sim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Biomedical Engineering 
Research Interests: Soft materials, protein engineering, synthetic polymers, engineered living materials, supramolecular chemistry
Email: s.sim@uci.edu
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Pratik Shah, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Lab Medicine; Biomedical Engineering 
Research Interests: Computational pathology, biomedical engineering, deep learning, clinical development 
Email: pratik.shah@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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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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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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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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