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Steven Abel

Steve Abel

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
Rigoberto Advincula

Rigoberto Advincula

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
Akrout Mohamed

Mohamed Akrout

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

Tom Berg

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
Bogdan Bichescu

Bogdan Bichescu

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

Katie Cahill

Assistant Dean of Academic and Student Affairs, College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies
Public health, health policy, health disparities, diseases as disasters, democracy, international organizations, accountability, public opinion, public policy
Chris Cox.

Chris Cox

Department Head and Robert M. Condra Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Mathematical modeling of natural and engineered environmental systems, mechanisms of gene regulation, noise (or variability) in gene expression and population dynamics, pollution, fate and transport, mathematical models, gene regulation, stochastic processes
Ermine Fidan

Emine Fidan

Assistant Professor, Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science
Environmental informatics, artificial intelligence, water quality, water quantity, flooding, agricultural health, ecological health, natural resource management, water pollution, sustainable agriculture, environmental risk, food-energy-water nexus, machine learning modeling, environmental data science
Joshua Fu

Joshua Fu

Chancellor's Professor, John D. Tickle Professor, and James G. Gibson Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Climate change, energy collaboration, artificial intelligence, human health, Earth systems science, machine intelligence, measurement-model fusion, dynamic interactions, human-climate interactions, burden of disease, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease
Bryan Good

Bryan Good

Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
Stroke, thrombosis, congenital heart disease, blood pumps, cardiovascular biomechanics, computational modeling, experimental modeling, patient-specific modeling, machine learning
Jens Gregor

Jens Gregor

Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Reconstruction algorithms, analysis algorithms, imaging modalities, image reconstruction, image processing, machine learning, bioinformatics
Matt Harris

Matt Harris

Boyd Distinguished Professor of Health Economics
Labor economics, health economics, access of care, affordability of care, dynamic discrete choice models, opioids, ACEs, educational outcomes

Health and Wellness

Research Areas
Biomedical Innovation
Behavioral, Social and Mental Health
Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
Computational Health and Medicine
Food, Nutrition, and Exercise
Infectious Disease

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