People

Faculty 

Ammar AbdoAmmar Abdo, Lecturer

Office Hours: Monday/Tuesday 1:00 - 2:30 pm - BI 2613

Research Interests: Neural Prostheses/Neural Interfaces, Brain-Computer Interface, Floating Micro-Stimulators. 

George Catalano, Distinguished Service Professor George Catalano

Office Hours: TBD - BI 2614

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 automaton.

Guy GermanGuy German, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director

Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 2:30 - 3:30 pm - BI 2609

Research Interests: Multi-scale mechanics of tissues, microstructures for encapsulation and drug delivery.

 

Tracy HookwayTracy Hookway, Assistant Professor

Office Hours: Tuesday/Wednesday 12:00 - 1:00 pm - BI 2627

Research Interests: 3D tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, stem cell biology and tissue morphogenesis, cardiovascular physiology, multicellular interactions

Sha JinSha Jin, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director

Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00 - 5:00 pm - BI 2612

Research Interests: Stem cell for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, mechanobiology, molecular genetics and cell biology, nanosensor development, vaccine development.

Ahyeon Koh, Assistant ProfessorAhyeon Koh

Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 3:00 - 4:30 pm - BI 2624

Research Interests: Electrochemical biosensors, flexible and stretchable sensors, biocompatible sensors and materials, analytical devices for biomedical applications

Frank LuFrank Lu, Assistant Professor

Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 1:00 - 2:30 pm - BI 2626

Research Interests: Nonlinear Raman microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, label-free digital histopathology, optical bioimaging for image-guided neurosurgery and neuro-oncology.

Gretchen MahlerGretchen Mahler, Associate Professor

Office Hours: TBD - BI 2608

Research Interests: In vitro and in silico toxicology and pharmacology, microfluidic models of organs and tissues, endothelial and epithelial cell pathobiology.

Headshot of Yuan WanYuan Wan, Assistant Professor

Office Hours: Friday 12:00 - 2:00 pm - BI 2625

Research Interests: Diagnostic technologies, micro/nanofluidics, targeted therapeutics, clinical pathophysiology

Zhibo WangZhibo Wang, Lecturer and Lab Coordinator

Office Hours: Thursday 10:00 am - 1:00 pm - BI 2617

Research interest: TBD 

 Ying Wang, Assistant Professor 

Ying Wang

Office Hours: Wednesday/Friday 12:00 - 1:00 pm - BI 2610

Research areas: Multi-Organ Microphysiological Systems, Tissue Engineering, Microfluidic Tissue Culture Platforms, and Integrated On-Chip Biosensing.

Kaiming YeKaiming Ye, Professor and Chair

Office Hours: By appointment

Research Interests: Advanced Biomanufacturing, 3D Tissue and Organ Printing, Personalized Medicine, Stem Cell Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Nanomedicine, Vaccine Development, Biosensors and Bioimaging.

Courtesy Faculty

Katie EdwardsKatie Edwards, Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests: Liposomal combination drug formulations, Thiamine deficiency and supplementation and Bioanalytical assay development

Anthony Di PasquaAnthony Di Pasqua, Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, chemo- and radio-therapeutics, platinum-based anticancer therapeutics 

Yetrib Hathout

Yetrib Hathout, Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests: Bio-analytical mass spectrometry and proteomics to study muscle diseases, diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers, novel therapeutic targets

Eric HoffmanEric Hoffman, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests: Molecular genetics, neuromuscular diseases, drug development

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Zhanpeng Jin, Visiting Associate Professor

Research Interests: ​Medical cyber physical systems; mobile and wearable computing and security issues in smart health; neural engineering; neuromorphic computing systems; low-power sensing and electronics​

Nathan TumeyNathan Tumey, Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests: Medicinal chemistry, targeted drug delivery, antibody-drug conjugates, auto-immune disease / inflammation

Department Advisory Board Committee

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    The Biomedical Engineering Advisory Board is composed of leaders from industry, business and the community. The mission of the Advisory Board is defined by three major objectives: to provide advice to the department on academic, research and service programs and strategic direction; to serve as advocates for the department; to foster industry/University partnerships that result in the application of applied research and technical knowledge.

    Advisory Board Members

    Rajesh Davé, MD, MBA '93
    SUNY Upstate Medical Center,
    Binghamton Clinical Campus,
    UHS Imaging Wilson Medical Center
    Johnson City, NY

    Paul H. Frisch, PhD, FHIMSS
    Assistant Attending, Department of Medical Physics
    Chief, Biomedical Physics and Engineering
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    New York, NY

    Bin He, PhD
    Distinguished Professor
    Department of Biomedical Engineering
    University of Minnesota

    Amine Hila, PhD
    Clinical Assistant Professor
    Upstate Medical School, SUNY
    DIO, Director of Medical Education, UHS Hospitals
    Medical Director of Research, UHS Hospitals
    Staff Gastroenterologist, UHS Hospitals
    Binghamton Gastroenterology Associates
    Binghamton, NY

    Kam Leong, PhD
    Member of National Academy of Engineering
    Distinguished Professor
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University 

    SuPing Lyu, PhD
    Medtronic Corporate Science and Technology
    Senior Principal Scientist and Technical Fellow
    Medtronic Co.

    Miriam Rafailovich, PhD
    Distinguished Professor
    Material Science Department
    SUNY Stony Brook

    Jerome S. Schultz, PhD
    Member of the National Academy of Engineering
    Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Houston University

    Heike Sichtig, PhD
    Binghamton University Bioengineering Alumnus
    Biomedical Engineer / Premarket Reviewer
    U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

    Erin Barnes
    Binghamton University Bioengineering Alumnus
    Student, Temple University School of Medicine

    Lucy Volland
    Binghamton University Bioengineering Alumnus
    Director of Marketing
    OpenTrons Labworks Inc.

    Joseph Perez-Rodgers, PhD
    Binghamton University Bioengineering Alumnus
    Technical Product Manager
    GNS Healthcare

    Edward Guo, PhD
    Chair and Professor
    Department of Biomedical Engineering
    Columbia University

    Tejasvi Sadasivuni, MS
    Binghamton University Bioengineering Alumnus
    Engineer
    Samsung Austin Semiconductor

Student Advisory Board Committee

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    The Biomedical Engineering Student Advisory Board is composed of top students, both graduate and undergraduate. The mission of the Student Advisory Board includes the following objectives:

    to provide feedback to the department on academic, research and service programs to serve as advocates for the student population

    Student Advisory Board Members

    Undergraduate

    • Paul DeCostanza (Junior)
    • Emma Northrup (Senior)
    • Margaret Blystone (Senior)
    • Shuofei Sun (Senior)

    Graduate

    • Sebastian Freeman (Chair)
    •  Ming Hu(PhD student)
    • Niranjana Dhandapani (PhD student)
    • Soujanya Karanth (PhD student)

Student groups

There are a number of honor societies and student organizations that represent various engineering and computer science disciplines in which Watson School students can participate.