Bioengineering Department Faculty

Core Faculty

George Catalano

Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Bioengineering

Research Interests: A socially just engineering profession and education paradigm, environmental ethics, engineering ethics, fluid dynamics of the natural world, turbulence, aerodynamics, creativity, liberative pedagogy, predator-prey modeling, cellular automata
607-777-4881
Email: catalano@binghamton.edu

Amber Doiron

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering

Research Interests: Nanotechnology, biomaterials, drug delivery, molecular imaging, atherosclerosis.
607-777-5477
Email: adoiron@binghamton.edu

John Fillo

Chair, Department of Bioengineering

607-777-5779
Email: fillo@binghamton.edu

Guy German

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering

Research Interests: Multi-scale mechanics of tissues, microstructures for encapsulation and drug delivery.
607-777-4270
Email: ggerman@binghamton.edu

Walker Land

Professor, Department of Bioengineering

Research Interests: Developing complex adaptive systems for the screening, detection, classification, diagnosis, susceptibility and risk assessment of cancer.
607-777-4880
Email: wland@binghamton.edu

Craig Laramee

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering

Research Interests: Bioelectromagnetics, neural prosthetics.
607-777-5257
Email: claramee@binghamton.edu

Gretchen Mahler

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering

Research Interests: In vitro and in silico toxicology and pharmacology, microfluidic models of organs and tissues, endothelial and epithelial cell pathobiology.
607-777-5238
Email: gmahler@binghamton.edu

Kenneth McLeod

Professor, Department of Bioengineering

Research Interests: (see details inside profile)
607-777-5778
Email: kmcleod@binghamton.edu

Nick Plavac

Instructor, Department of Bioengineering

Research Interests: Neural basis of foregut inactivation and reactivation in Manduca sexta.
607-777-4798
Email: nplavac@binghamton.edu

Hiroki Sayama

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Departments of Bioengineering & Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Research Interests: Complex dynamical networks, collective behaviors, social systems modeling, artificial life/chemistry, mathematical biology, computer and information sciences.
607-777-4439
Email: sayama@binghamton.edu

Affiliated Faculty

Gary James

Professor of Nursing, Anthropology and Bioengineering; Director of the Institute for Primary and Preventative Health Care

Research Interests: Allostasis, modernization & chronic disease, stress and disease development, ambulatory blood pressure, catecholamines and cortisol, smoking cessation.
607-777-6016
Email: gdjames@binghamton.edu

Zhanpeng Jin

Assistant Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Bioengineering

Research Interests: Medical cyber physical systems, wearable body sensor networks, telemedicine, brain-computer interfaces, neural networks and neuromorphic systems.
607-777-3363
Email: zjin@binghamton.edu

David Schaffer

Visiting Research Professor, Department of Bioengineering

Research Interests: Theory and applications of evolutionary computation, machine learning, neural networks
Email: dschaffe@binghamton.edu