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Surgery and Engineering

Surgery and engineering concentrate on the collaborative efforts of engineers and surgical experts to create, develop, implement and evaluate technology, methods and tools that improve patients' outcomes and experiences.

 

Faculty involved in surgery and engineering research:

Shilo Anders

Research Focus: Human factors engineering, cognitive systems engineering and human-system interaction, healthcare informatics
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Justin Baba

Research Focus: Optical biosensing; non-invasive diagnostics; motion corrected imaging and sensing
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Eric Barth

Research Focus: 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.
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Audrey Bowden

Research Focus: Biophotonics tools for applications in 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
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Amanda Buck

Research Focus: hemodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, MRI, cardiovascular imaging
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Brett Byram

Research Focus: Medical ultrasound; signal processing; elasticity imaging; ultrasonic imaging and beamforming
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Catie Chang

Research Focus: Functional neuroimaging techniques and applications; signal processing and computational analysis
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Andre Churchwell

Research Focus: Engineering Design Education
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Christos Constantinidis

Research Focus: Neuroengineering, deep brain stimulation, working memory, cognitive development, prefrontal cortex
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Benoit Dawant

Research Focus: Medical image processing and analysis, image registration, image segmentation, image-guided surgery.
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Pierre DHaese

Research Focus: medical image processing 
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Mark Does

Research Focus: MRI, neuroimaging, cardiac imaging, MR microscopy
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Xiaoguang Dong

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
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Dario Englot

Research Focus: Brain networks in epilepsy and other neurological disorders; Functional and anatomic neuroimaging; Human electrophysiology; Functional neurosurgery
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J. Michael Fitzpatrick

Research Focus: Medical imaging, image processing, image registration, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
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Kevin Galloway

Research Focus: Design of robotic systems from the micro- to the macro-scale, soft robotics, rapid prototyping materials and methods, human-centered design, mechanical design, medical device design, assistive technology.
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Robert Galloway

Research Focus: Technology-guided therapy, medical devices, medical imaging
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Yurui Gao

Research Focus: Small animal and human MRI imaging (diffusion/functional MRI), medical image processing and analysis.
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John Gore

Research Focus: Development and application of biomedical imaging techniques
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Kevin Harkins

Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging, computational modeling, optimization
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Yuankai Huo

Research Focus: Biomedical data representation, biomedical image processing, machine learning, data science
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E. Duco Jansen

Research Focus: Laser-tissue interaction; optical neural interfaces; modulation of neural activity using infrared laser light; cellular effects of laser-induced stimuli; application of light, lasers and optical technology in medicine and biology
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Karen Joos

Research Focus: Applications of optical techniques for ophthalmic surgery. Primary research areas use of optical coherence tomography.
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Weng Poo Kang

Research Focus: Solid-state sensors, semiconductor devices, VLSI design
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Bennett Landman

Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging & statistical analysis with emphasis on medical imaging.
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Haoxiang Luo

Research Focus: Computational fluid dynamics, biofluids, fluid-structure interaction, microfluidics; biomimetic aerial/underwater vehicles, biomedical flows.
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Ilwoo Lyu

Research Focus: Computer vision, surface registration, computational neuroanatomy, shape analysis
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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

Research Focus: Applications of optical techniques for diagnosis of pathology. Primary research areas use of fluorescence and Raman spectroscopics for cancer and precancer detection.
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David Merryman

Research Focus: Mechanobiology, GPCR targeted drug strategies, percutaneous interventions, tissue engineering
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Michael Miga

Research Focus: Image-guided surgery and intervention, computational modeling for therapeutic applications, soft-tissue mechanics, biotransport, and inverse problems in therapeutics and imaging.
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Jason Mitchell

Research Focus: Human augmentation through engineering, wearable sensors, exoskeletons, prosthetics; mechanical simulation and design
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Jack Noble

Research Focus: Medical image processing including image segmentation as well as other techniques related to computer-aided surgery.
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Jeffry Nyman

Research Focus: Diagnosing bone disease with MRI and Raman spectroscopy, Effect of diabetes on the fracture resistance of bone, Regulators of bone toughness and fracture healing
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Ipek Oguz

Research Focus: Medical image analysis, image segmentation, machine learning, image registration
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Reed Omary

Research Focus: Image-guided drug delivery for cancer; interventional radiology
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Richard Alan Peters

Research Focus: Digital image processing, computer vision, Digital signal processing, computer graphics, software engineering, electromagnetic theory, applied mathematics
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Bernard Rousseau


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Ranjana Sahai

Research Focus: Design, simulation, development, and testing of bio-inspired, robotic systems and microfluidic devices
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Nabil Simaan

Research Focus: 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
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Yuankai (Kenny) Tao

Research Focus: Optical imaging systems for clinical diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring in ophthalmology, gastroenterology, and oncology
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Robert Webster

Research Focus: Image guidance, robotic surgery, screw theory, mechanics-based modeling, and optimal mechanism design
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Matt Weinger

Research Focus: Human factors and systems engineering; human-system interaction, decision making, health care informatics
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D. Mitchell Wilkes

Research Focus: Digital signal processing, image processing and computer vision, digital signal processing hardware, structurally adaptive systems, sonar, signal modeling
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Thomas Withrow

Research Focus: Development, design and testing of surgical robots, improvement of design methods, cyber physical systems, biomechanics, especially the biomechanics of the ACL and injury prevention.
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