Faculty Directory

Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Computational cell biology and immunology, theory and simulation of soft biological materials, antigen recognition, intracellular transport, membrane and polymer biophysics, biochemical reaction networks, synthetic and systems biology

UT-ORNL Governor's Chair for Advanced & Nanostructured Materials
Synthesis of biomaterials, biomedical devices, drug delivery, biomedical engineering, biosensors for health monitoring, applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) in various science and engineering domains in: biopolymers, nanoscience, drug development, theranostic agents, developing new biomedically relevant instrumentations and sensor/monitoring environments for in vivo and in vitro methods

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Signal processing, artificial intelligence, digital health, machine learning for dermatology, telecommunication, circuit modeling, antenna theory and electromagnetics

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Veterinary Medicine
Biomedical materials, medical devices, tissue regeneration, stem cells, biotherapies, bioactive particles, tissue scaffolds, animal models, tissue engineering, additive manufacturing, biometrics, biomechanics

Associate Professor, Nursing
Caregiving, gerontology, health equity, digital health resources

Assistant Professor, Nursing
Cardiovascular disease, health decision making, family caregiving, heart failure, health interventions, mobility, palliative care, person-centered care, underresourced populations, values clarification

Director of the Applied Systems Lab; Assistant Professor, Nursing; Assistant Professor, Engineering
Machine learning, hybrid models-based systems engineering, digital twin design for high consequence environments, decision support systems

Professor, Business Analytics and Statistics
Hospital operations, process improvement, health IT, analytics, artificial intelligence

Distinguished Professor, Humanities and History
Death, dying, ICD, hospice, brain death, mortality

Professor, Microbiology
Host-virus interactions, environmental microbiology, microbial competition, phage-host interactions, PAH degradation, microbiome

Associate Professor, Law
The Affordable Care Act, healthcare regulation, medical decision making, health care finance, pharmaceutical drug pricing, health care law, health care fraud and abuse, white collar crime, medical necessity, insurance

Assistant Professor, Microbiology
Host-microbe interactions, bacterial colonization and pathogenesis, maternal-fetal and pediatric health, vaginal health, vaginal microbiome, invasive disease, streptococcus, metal homeostasis, mucosal colonization, meningitis
