Faculty: The Fischell Department of Bioengineering
For a list of Clark School- and University-wide faculty participating in the Graduate Program in Bioengineering, please see the graduate program faculty page.
William E. Bentley
Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor
Chair
Center for Biosystems Research
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1989
B.S. and M.S. Cornell University
Room 2226 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
E-mail: bentley@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4321
Fax: (301) 405-99953
Research Interests: Biomolecular and metabolic engineering; cell-cell communication; heterologous protein expression; device/bio interfaces. More »
Aranda-Espinoza, Helim
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Universidad de San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 1998
Room 3138 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: helim@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8250
Research Interests: Chemical and biological engineering, soft condensed matter, biomechanics and biopolymers. More »
Chen, Yu "Tim"
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2003
Room 2330A Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: yuchen@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-3439
Fax: (301) 314-9953
Research Interests: Biomedical optical imaging, optical coherence tomography (OCT), optical coherence microscopy (OCM), diffuse optical spectroscopy and imaging, molecular imaging, early cancer diagnosis, neuroimaging. More »
Fisher, John
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rice University, 2003
Room 3238 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: jpfisher@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7475
Research Interests: Biomedical engineering; synthesis of novel hydrolytically degradable, implantable polymers; study and use of biomaterials for the delivery of therapeutics, scaffolds for orthopaedic tissue engineering applications; interaction of biomaterials and tissues. More »
Herold, Keith
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1985
Room 3143 Glenn L. Martin Hall
E-mail: herold@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-5268
Fax: (301) 314-9477
Research Interests: BioMEMS, microfluidic systems for bioanalytical assays, heat and mass transfer in bioengineering. More »
Hsieh, Adam
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2000
Room 3242 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: hsieh@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7397
Fax: (301) 314-9477
Research Interests: Orthopaedic biomechanics; soft tissue mechanobiology; mechanisms of intervertebral disc degeneration; mechanobiologic strategies for developing spatially-complex tissue engineered constructs. More »
Johnson, Arthur T.
Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1969
Room 1429 Animal Science/
Agricultural Engineering Building
E-mail: artjohns@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1184
Fax: (301) 314-9023
Research Interests: Bioengineering, instrumentation, transport processes, modeling, exercise physiology and respiratory stress. More »
Kofinas, Peter
Professor and Associate Chair
Director, Graduate Program in Bioengineering
Ph.D., M.I.T., 1994
Room 1120 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: kofinas@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7335
Fax: (301) 405-0523
Research Interests: Biomimetic recognition of viruses using molecularly imprinted polymers, protein and virus recognition using block copolymer patterns, self-assembled nanoarchitectures for flexible, high energy density supercapacitors and batteries, and functional nano-structured polymers. More »
Montas, Hubert
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1996
Room 1453 Animal Science/
Agricultural Engineering Building
E-mail: montas@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1196
Research Interests: Bioenvironmental and water resources engineering; numerical methods in environmental biodynamics, transport modeling, information and decision support systems. More »
Seog, Joonil
Assistant Professor
Joint appointment with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
Room 1140 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: jseog@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1885
Fax: (301) 314-2029
Research Interests: Structure-function relationships of biological molecules using single molecule force spectroscopy; nanomechanics of biopolymers and synthetic macromolecules. More »
Shah, Sameer
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2002
Room 3236 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: sameer@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-9958
Research Interests: Neuromuscular plasticity, degeneration, and disease; cell biomechanics; cargo transport by molecular motors; vesicular motility. More »
Shirmohammadi, Adel
Professor and Associate Chair
Director, Undergraduate Program
Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1982
Room 1419 Animal Science/Agricultural Engineering Building
E-Mail: ashirmo@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1185
Research Interests: Bioenvironmental and water resources engineering; water quality/transport modeling, nonpoint source pollution assessment using an integrated watershed approach. More »
Tao, Yang
Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1991. P.E.
Room 1427 Animal Science/Agricultural Engineering Building
E-mail: ytao@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1189
Research Interests: Bioengineering, bioimaging, machine vision, food-processing engineering safety, food safety and quality, biomaterial inspection, sensors and bioinstrumentation, robotics, and automation. More »
Yu, Yihua Bruce
Associate Professor
Joint appointment with the School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland Baltimore
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1996.
E-mail: byu@rx.umaryland.edu
Fischell Department of Bioengineering (College Park) contact informtion:
Room 1130 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
Phone: (301) 405-2829
School of Pharmacy (Baltimore) contact information:
Room 635 Health Sciences Facility II
Phone: (410) 706-7514
Fax: (410) 706-5017
Research Interests: Mechanosensors to aid the repair and rehabilitation of injured musculoskeletal tissues, delivery of radiopharmaceuticals, force-sensitive nanofiber networks (FSNN), coatings. More »
