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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Justin Baba Research Focus: Optical biosensing; non-invasive diagnostics; motion corrected imaging and sensing Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	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. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Amanda Buck Research Focus: hemodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, MRI, cardiovascular imaging Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Brett Byram Research Focus: Medical ultrasound; signal processing; elasticity imaging; ultrasonic imaging and beamforming Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Catie Chang Research Focus: Functional neuroimaging techniques and applications; signal processing and computational analysis Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Andre Churchwell Research Focus: Engineering Design Education Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Christos Constantinidis Research Focus: Neuroengineering, deep brain stimulation, working memory, cognitive development, prefrontal cortex Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Benoit Dawant Research Focus: Medical image processing and analysis, image registration, image segmentation, image-guided surgery. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Pierre DHaese Research Focus: medical image processing Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Mark Does Research Focus: MRI, neuroimaging, cardiac imaging, MR microscopy Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Dario Englot Research Focus: Brain networks in epilepsy and other neurological disorders; Functional and anatomic neuroimaging; Human electrophysiology; Functional neurosurgery Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	J. Michael Fitzpatrick Research Focus: Medical imaging, image processing, image registration, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	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. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Robert Galloway Research Focus: Technology-guided therapy, medical devices, medical imaging Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Yurui Gao Research Focus: Small animal and human MRI imaging (diffusion/functional MRI), medical image processing and analysis. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	John Gore Research Focus: Development and application of biomedical imaging techniques Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Kevin Harkins Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging, computational modeling, optimization Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Yuankai Huo Research Focus: Biomedical data representation, biomedical image processing, machine learning, data science Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Karen Joos Research Focus: Applications of optical techniques for ophthalmic surgery. Primary research areas use of optical coherence tomography. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Weng Poo Kang Research Focus: Solid-state sensors, semiconductor devices, VLSI design Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Bennett Landman Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging & statistical analysis with emphasis on medical imaging. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Haoxiang Luo Research Focus: Computational fluid dynamics, biofluids, fluid-structure interaction, microfluidics; biomimetic aerial/underwater vehicles, biomedical flows. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Ilwoo Lyu Research Focus: Computer vision, surface registration, computational neuroanatomy, shape analysis Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	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. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	David Merryman Research Focus: Mechanobiology, GPCR targeted drug strategies, percutaneous interventions, tissue engineering Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	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. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Jason Mitchell Research Focus: Human augmentation through engineering, wearable sensors, exoskeletons, prosthetics; mechanical simulation and design Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Jack Noble Research Focus: Medical image processing including image segmentation as well as other techniques related to computer-aided surgery. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Ipek Oguz Research Focus: Medical image analysis, image segmentation, machine learning, image registration Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Reed Omary Research Focus: Image-guided drug delivery for cancer; interventional radiology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Richard Alan Peters Research Focus: Digital image processing, computer vision, Digital signal processing, computer graphics, software engineering, electromagnetic theory, applied mathematics Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Bernard Rousseau Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Ranjana Sahai Research Focus: Design, simulation, development, and testing of bio-inspired, robotic systems and microfluidic devices Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Yuankai (Kenny) Tao Research Focus: Optical imaging systems for clinical diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring in ophthalmology, gastroenterology, and oncology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Robert Webster Research Focus: Image guidance, robotic surgery, screw theory, mechanics-based modeling, and optimal mechanism design Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	Matt Weinger Research Focus: Human factors and systems engineering; human-system interaction, decision making, health care informatics Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	D. Mitchell Wilkes Research Focus: Digital signal processing, image processing and computer vision, digital signal processing hardware, structurally adaptive systems, sonar, signal modeling Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10
	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. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering	10