Expert Sources for Industry and Media

Dan Lin, Professor of Computer Science
Data analysis and privacy protection in different domains such as cloud computing, mobile applications, social media platforms, and Internet of vehicles

James Weimer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (CPS), internet-of-medical-things (IoMT), challenges arising from: unmodeled variability, dataset shifts, anomalies, limited data, and sensing constraints

Jules White, Director of Vanderbilt’s Initiative on the Future of Learning & Generative AI, Professor of Computer Science
ChatGPT, cyber-security, and software engineering in domains ranging from healthcare to manufacturing

Pamela Wisniewski, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Flowers Family Fellow in Engineering
Social media, privacy, and online safety for adolescents

Matthew Lang, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Biological motors, cell signaling and immunology

Marjan Rafat, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiation Oncology
Combining engineering and cancer biology concepts

Krishnendu Roy, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Design and development of novel delivery systems for vaccines and immunotherapies against cancer and infectious diseases, 

John T. Wilson, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Molecularly engineered materials, cellular engineering and drug delivery, innovative therapeutic approaches: delivery of immunomodulatory cues to the organs, cells, and intracellular pathways of the immune system

Jamey D. Young, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Professor of Engineering, Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Director of Graduate Studies in Chemical Engineering
Metabolic engineering; metabolic flux analysis; diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders; cancer and immune cell metabolism; photosynthesis research; cell culture engineering

Audrey Bowden, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Biophotonics (light-based) tools for applications to medicine and biology, such as for early detection, diagnosis and therapy for cancer; development and deployment of low-cost, high-performing point-of-care technologies for rural and global health applications

Catie Chang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Understanding of the human brain through methods for analyzing and interpreting functional neuroimaging data

Bennett Landman, Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Biomedical Informatics, Neurology
Applying image-processing technologies to leverage large-scale imaging studies to improve understanding of individual anatomy and personalize medicine

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Professor of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Director of the Biophotonics Center at Vanderbilt
Applications of optical techniques for diagnosis of pathology, use of fluorescence and Raman spectroscopics for cancer and pre-cancer detection

Eric Barth, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Dynamic systems and control. Design, modeling and control of mechatronic and fluid power systems, free-piston internal combustion and free-piston Stirling engines, power supply and actuation for autonomous robots, and applied non-linear control.

Greg Walker, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Micro-scale heat transfer, heat flux measurement, energy transport processes, ultrasonic pyrometry, thermographic phospors, energy conversion devices, high-performance computing

Kane Jennings, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Surface chemistry, self-assembly, films, coatings, biohybrid materials, bioinspired materials, and bioreplica materials.

Hiba Baroud, Associate Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Director of Graduate Recruiting for Civil Engineering
Critical infrastructure systems modeling, risk analysis, statistical modeling, risk-informed decision analysis, resilience modeling

Sankaran Mahadevan, John R. Murray Professor of Engineering
Structural Mechanics in Civil, Mechanical and Aerospace Systems; Materials Durability – Metals, Composites, Cementitious Materials (Fatigue, Fracture, Creep, Corrosion and other Chemical Processes); Reliability and Risk Engineering; Structural Health Diagnosis and Prognosis; Computational Model Uncertainty; Optimization under Uncertainty

Craig Philip, Research Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Transportation and Operational Resiliency (VECTOR)
Management and sustainability of freight transportation networks and operations, infrastructure resilience and application of risk management tools to public policy making, carrier safety management and regulation of 24/7/365 operations, water resource management and balancing multistakeholder interests

Steven Krahn, Professor of the Practice of Nuclear Environmental Engineering
Nuclear and environmental policy and regulation; risk assessment and risk management; operational readiness and technology insertion in nuclear facilities; the nuclear fuel cycle

Shihong Lin, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Director of Graduate Recruiting for Environmental Engineering, Chancellor Faculty Fellow
Membrane Processes, water-energy-environment nexus, environmental surface science, environmental application and implication of nanotechnology

Benoit Dawant, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering
Medical image processing and analysis, image registration, image segmentation, image-guided surgery.

Xiaoguang Dong, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Focus: The design, manufacture and control of miniature soft robots, and their applications in minimally invasive medicine, microfluidics and biomechanics. The design, manufacture and control of miniature swarm robots, and their applications in biomedicine and biomechanics. The modeling, design, manufacture and control of intelligent soft materials

Michael Goldfarb, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Co-director, Center for Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology
Design, modeling, and control of electromechanical devices and systems, design of high-energy-density robotic actuators, control of fluid-powered actuators and devices

Michael Miga, Harvey Branscomb Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Development of new paradigms in detection, diagnosis, characterization, and treatment of disease through the integration of computational models into research and clinical practice.

Nabil Simaan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Robotic systems for surgical assistance, theoretical kinematics of mechanisms, synthesis and optimization of robots and mechanisms, design of flexure mechanisms and flexible robots, parallel robots, actuation redundancy and kinematic redundancy

Robert Webster, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Image guidance, robotic surgery, screw theory, mechanics-based modeling, and optimal mechanism design other techniques related to computer-aided surgery.

James Weimer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Internet-of-medical-things (IoMT), technology transfer and commercialization

Jie Ying Wu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Using machine learning techniques to transform surgical robots from a teleoperated tool to an intelligent assistant

Karl Zelik, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Biomechanics of legged locomotion, lower-limb prosthetics, assistive technology, dynamic walking principles, neural control, human-device interfaces, mobility, rehabilitation engineering

Sharon Weiss, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering
Light-matter interaction, silicon photonics, porous silicon biosensors, nanotechnology, nanocomposite materials

Bridget Rogers, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Surfaces, interfaces, and films of technically important materials

Leon Bellan, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Microfluidics, microfluidic materials, smart materials, biomaterials, micro and nanotechnology, bioMEMS.

Jason Valentine, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Optical metamaterials, plasmonics, transformation optics, nanophotonics, nanoimaging, active photonics, gradient index optics, high spatial resolution bioimaging and sensing, solar energy conversion, scalable 3D nanomanufacturing.

Abhishek Dubey, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Artificial intelligence, distributed computing for cyber-physical systems, smart and connected communities, co-design of resilient computational abstractions and the online learning algorithms and decision procedures for cyber-physical systems

Meiyi Ma, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Integrating machine learning and formal methods, and applying integrative solutions to build safe, robust, and reliable Cyber-Physical Systems

Jonathan Sprinkle, Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Model-based approaches to cyber-physical systems, and he teaches courses ranging from systems modeling and control to mobile application development and software engineering.

Daniel Work, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Director of Graduate Studies in Civil Engineering
Transportation cyber physical systems, transportation data analytics, traffic estimation & control, connected & autonomous vehicles, mathematical models of traffic, inverse modeling, mobile sensing

Amrutur Anilkumar, Professor of the Practice of Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering
Drop dynamics, aero-propulsion, energy conversion, design and development of experimental facilities, flow diagnostics and instrumentation

Ron Schrimpf, Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Engineering, Director of the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics
Semiconductor device physics, radiation effects and reliability in semiconductor devices, microelectronic test structures, and simulation tools for microelectronics

Robert Reed, Professor of Electrical Engineering
Radiation effects on electronics