Professor of Practice
Scholarly Interests: Biomechanics, Fluid Structure Interactions, Infant Swallowing, Bio-Inspired Design, and Device Design
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests: Ultrasound, Photoacoustic Imaging and Imaging Contrast Agents
Professor
Scholarly Interests: Biomedical Optics, Biophotonics, Cancer and Microscopy
Alden J. 'Doc' Laborde Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Scholarly Interests: Biofluid Mechanics, Pulmonary Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Bioinnovation, and Entrepreneurship
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests: Stem Cell Delivery, Sickle Cell Disease, Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Animal Models, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Health Equity Engineering Translational Medicine, Engineering Education
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests: Biomedical Acoustics, Cellular Biomechanics and Biological Transport
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests: Microphysiological Systems, Tissue Engineering, Vascular Physiology, Inflammation, Fibrosis, Tumor Microenvironment, Biological Sex Differences
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Scholarly Interests: Microphysiological Systems, Tissue Engineering, Neuroscience and Biomaterials
Professor of Practice
Scholarly Interests: Anatomic and Movement Science, Biomechanical Design
Senior Professor of Practice and Associate Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Mechanics, Low-Resource Design Innovations
Professor
Scholarly Interests: Biomedical Imaging, Precision Medicine, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Big Data
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests: Magnetic Resonance, Transport, Dynamics in Complex Media, Low Field MRI
Research Faculty
Kevin Pollard | Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Tulane University 2017
Email: kpollar@tulane.edu
Scholarly Interests: Neural microphysiological models of opioids and pain signaling, peripheral neuropathy, and viral neuroinvasion.
Eiichiro Yamaguchi | Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana, 2005
Email: guchi@tulane.edu
Phone: (504) 247-1910
Scholarly Interests: Development of optical diagnostics methods, such as Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF), for microscale flow systems. Study of micro-fabrication techniques.
Emeritus Faculty
Nicholas J. Altiero | Emeritus Professor and Dean of Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974
Email: altiero@tulane.edu
Scholarly Interests: Computational Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Biomechanics.
San Aung | Emeritus Professor of Practice
Ph.D., Tulane University, 1987
Email: sha99@tulane.edu
Scholarly Interests: Engineering materials, Prefabricated systems.
Michael Dancisak | Emeritus Professor of Practice
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2000
Email: dancisak@tulane.edu
Scholarly Interests: Motor control and thermoregulation to enhance performance for individuals working in extreme environments.
Paul L. Nunez | Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., U.C. San Diego, 1969
Email: pnunez@tulane.edu
Scholarly Interests: Brain Physics and Cognitive Science Research
David A. Rice, P.E. | Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1974
Email: rice@tulane.edu
Scholarly Interests: Physiologic modeling, cardiopulmonary mechanics, bioacoustics, instrumentation and signal processing.
William C. Van Buskirk, P.E. | Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1970 Founding Chair
Email: vanb@tulane.edu
Scholarly Interests: Biofluid Mechanics
Cedric F. Walker, P.E. | Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., Duke University, 1978
Email: cfw@tulane.edu
Phone: (504) 865-5866
Scholarly Interests: Telemedicine, neural stimulation, implantable monitoring devices.
