BME Faculty

Ed Berbari, Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Imranul Alam, Assistant Scientist, Biomedical Engineering

Karen D. Alfrey, Lecturer of Biomedical Engineering

Susy Choy, Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering

Tien-Min Gabriel Chu, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Xiaomei Guo, Assistant Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Yunlong Huo, Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering

Ghassan Kassab, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Baiyan Li, Scientist, Biomedical Engineering

Yi Liu, Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering

Xiao Lu, Associate Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Evan Morris, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

John H. Schild, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Qiwei (Kevin) Sun, Assistant Scientist, Biomedical Engineering

Charles Turner, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Dong Xie, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Hiroki Yokota, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Ken Yoshida, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Ping Zhang, Assistant Scientist, Biomedical Engineering

Wei Zhang, Assistant Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering


BME Staff

Office Coordinator, Biomedical Engineering (pending)

Adjunct BME Faculty

Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

Zina Ben-Miled, Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology. Research includes bioinformatics, distributed and parallel information systems, and high performance retrieval from very large databases.

Ray Chin, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Computer and Information Science, School of Science, mathematical models for biomedical applications.

Russell C. Eberhart, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, applications of neural networks and computational intelligence systems.

Brian Foresman, M.D., Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine , studies brain waves associated with sleep disorders.

John Kincaid, M.D., Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, neuromuscular disorders.

David Suzuki, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, neurophysiology and oculomotor control.

N. Douglas Lees, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biology, School of Science , microbiology and molecular biology and studies yeast biology and antifungal therapy.

Cardiovascular Science

William J. Groh, M.D., M.P.H., Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Indiana University. Research interests include the epidemiology and prevention of sudden cardiac death, device therapy for treatment of arrhythmias, arrhythmias associated with neurological diseases and quality-of-life issues in patients with arrhythmias.

Keith L. March, M.D., Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, molecular mechanisms of vascular proliferation and remodeling, angiogenesis, and drug and gene delivery in blood vessels.

Weigun Shen, MD , M.M.S., Cardiovascular Research, Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly Corporate Center, Senior Biologist, Cardiovascular Research, Lilly Research Laboratories.

Jiashin Wu, Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, cardiac activation.

Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Interfacial Biomaterials

David B. Burr, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine. Research interests lie in biological and mechanical aspects of age-related bone and cartilage change, cartilage repair mechanisms, and bone remodeling; physiological response of bone to mechanical stimuli at the cell and tissue levels; pharmaceutical treatments for osteoporosis; cartilage repair in osteoarthrosis; and the biomechanics of some overuse sports injuries.

Jie Chen, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, engineering design; joint mechanics; implantology; medical instrumentation design; and application of biomechanics in orthodontics.

Andrew Hsu, Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, computational fluid dynamics, hemodynamics, and chemically reacting flows.

Razi Nalim, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, Primary research is in unsteady fluid mechanics, aerospace propulsion, computational fluid dynamics, combustion, wave rotors, pulsed combustion, detonation engines, internal combustion engine flows

Jeffrey A. Platt, D.D.S., M.S., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Restorative Dentistry, Indiana University School of Dentistry.  Primary research interest is in the area of adhesive restorations, particularly as interfaces relative to the advancement of minimally invasive dentistry.

Christoph Naumann, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemistry, School of Science , biofunctionalization of substrates, single molecule fluorescence imaging, biocompatibility and biotribology of biomaterials.

Molecular and Functional Imaging

Navin Bansal, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology, Department of Radiology, Director of Basic and Pre-Clinical MR Research, Experimental and Developmental Therapeutics Program

Gary D. Hutchins, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, application of imaging technologies to study physiological and biochemical mechanisms in- vivo.

Michael Miller, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor, Division of Imaging Sciences, Department of Radiology, Research interests are in the area of applying physics and molecular imaging to quantitative analysis of physiologic processes in oncology, cardiology and vascular biology.

Weiming Yu, Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine Division of Nephrology, School of Medicine. His research interest is to develop and apply optical imaging techniques for biomedical research. This includes using nonlinear optical processes, such as multiphoton excitations, second harmonic generation, etc., for in vivo tissue imaging. Current focus of his research is to develop fast glomerular filtration rate measurement techniques and other functional imaging techniques for the kidney, and to understand molecular and cellular processes involved in acute renal failure and proteinuria.

Yun Liang, Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, computed tomography imaging technologies.