Core Faculty
Kenneth Barbee, Ph.D. | 
Primary Appointment: School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Research Areas: traumatic brain injury and repair mechanisms, cellular biomechanics of neural and vascular injury, mechanotransduction in the cardiovascular system, mechanical control of growth and development for wound healing and tissue engineering, cell adhesion and biosensors
Scott Bunce, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit
Research Areas: clinical neuroscience
Pablo Burstein, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Research Areas: neuroinformatics, neuroimaging
Brian Clark, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Areas: applied neuropharmacology
Guglielmo Foffani, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Research Areas: computational neuroscience, signal processing
Simon Giszter, Ph.D. | 
Primary Appointment: Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Secondary Appointment(s): School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Research Areas: motor primitives, synergies, motor control, spinal cord, trunk motor cortex, spinal cord injury, recovery of function, neurorobotics, neuroprosthetics
Allon Guez, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Areas: control systems, neurorobotics
Yixin Guo, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Mathematics
Research Areas: computational neuroscience
Kurtulus Izzetoglu, Ph.D. |
Primary appointment: School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Research Interests: cognitive workload assessment of UAV operators, sensor and algorithm development for depth of anesthesia monitoring, cognitive baselining and index developments, cognitive aging research, in particular, attentional network assessment.
John Kounios, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Psychology
Research Areas: cognitive neuroscience
Peter Lelkes, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Secondary Appointment(s): Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics; Biochemistry, Pathology and Surgery
Reseach Areas: tissue neuroengineering
Michel Lemay, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Secondary Appointment(s): School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Reseach Areas: spinal cord injury, neural prostheses, neurorobotics
Hualou Liang, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: School of Biomedical Engineering
Research Areas: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Signal Processing, and Neuroinformatics and Neuroengineering
Sergey Markin, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Reseach Areas: computational neuroscience
Georgi Medvedev, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Mathematics
Research Areas: computational neuroscience
Karen Moxon, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Secondary Appointment(s): Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Areas: neuroengineering, neurorobotics, computation neuroscience, brain-machine interface, sensory processing, sensory gating
Jonathan Nissanov, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment:Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Secondary Appointment(s): School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Reseach Areas: neuroengineering, bioimaging, neuroinformatics
Banu Onaral, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Research Areas: neuroimaging, fNIR/NIRS
Robert F. Rogers, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Secondary Appointment(s): School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Reseach Areas: sensory encoding/decoding; cardiovascular and respiratory control; information processing; and systems neuroscience
Ilya Rybak, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Secondary Appointment(s): School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Reseach Areas: computational neuroscience, central pattern generators, motor systems, respiratory systems
Maria Schultheis, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Psychology
Reseach Areas: traumatic brain injury
Natalia Shevtsova, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Reseach Areas: computational neuroscience
Patricia Shewokis, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: College of Nursing and Health Professions
Reseach Areas: movement science, motor training
Barry Waterhouse, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Reseach Areas: applied neuropharmacology, monoaminergic systems, sensory processing
Margaret Wheatley, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Research Areas: neuroimaging, material engineering, spinal cord repair
Affiliated Faculty
Stacey Ake, PhD |
Primary Appointment: English & Philosophy
Research Areas: bioethics
Ari Brooks, M.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Surgery
Secondary Appointment(s): Biomedical Graduate Studies and School of Biomedical Engineering
Research Areas: imaging
Donna DeCarolis, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: College of Business
Research Areas: business and entrepreneurship, pharmaceutical/biotechnology industries, technology commercialization
Itzhak Fischer, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Areas: spinal cord neuroscience
Fred Fritz
NeuroDx; Industry Collaborator
Barry Furrow, J.D. |
Primary Appointment: School of Law
Research Areas: health law, bioethics
John Houle, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Areas: spinal cord injury, neural transplant
Sigmund Jenssen, M.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Neurology
Reseach Areas: traumatic brain injury
Bruce Katz, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Areas: imaging
Bradley Layton, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: cell mechanics
Don McEachron, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment:School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Research Areas: bioethics
Karl Okamoto, J.D. |
Primary Appointment: School of Law
Research Areas: business and entrepreneurship
Jyoti Pillai, M.D. |
Primary Appointment: Department of Neurology
Research Areas: epilepsy
Sheri Silfies, Ph.D. |
Primary Appointment: School of Rehabilitation Sciences
Secondary Appointment(s): College of Nursing and Health Professions
Reseach Areas: trunk motor control
Alan Tessler, M.D. |
Primary Appointment: Veterans Administration Hospital
Secondary Appointment(s): Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Reseach Areas: spinal cord neuroscience, plasticity, regeneration