Faculty

Taby Ahsan
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California San Diego, 1998	Email: tahsan@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 865-5899 Research Interests: Tissue engineering, stem cell research, mechanotransduction, biomanufacturing. Click to visit Dr. Ahsan's laboratory website
Nicholas J. Altiero
Professor and Dean of Science and Engineering; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974	Email: altiero@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 865-5764 Fax: (504) 862-8747 Research Interests: Computational Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Biomechanics.
Ronald C. Anderson
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Tulane University, 1987	Email: rcanders@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 314-2441 Research Interests: Biomechanics, orthopaedic materials.

Michael Dancisak
Senior Professor of Practice and Director of the Center for Anatomical and Movement Science; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2000	Email: dancisak@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 865-5764 Research Interests: Motor control and thermoregulation to enhance performance for individuals working in extreme environments.
Donald P. Gaver
Alden J. 'Doc' Laborde Professor and Department Chair of Biomedical Engineering; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1988	Email: dpg@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 865-5150 Research Interests: biofluid mechanics, pulmonary mechanics, interfacial flows, computational fluid dynamics, acute respiratory distress syndrome, ventilator-induced lung injury. Click to visit Dr. Gaver's Biofluid Mechanics laboratory website
Lars G. Gilbertson
Professor of the Practice; Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1993	Email: lgilber2@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 247-1917 Research Interests: Biomechanics, Biology.

Damir Khismatullin
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Bashkir State University, 1998	Email: damir@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 247-1587 Research Interests: Computational Bioengineering, Biofluid Mechanics, Cellular Biomechanics, Medical Ultrasound, Multiphase Flow. Click to visit Dr. Khismatullin's laboratory website
Michael J. Moore
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 2005	Email: mooremj@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 247-1919 Research Interests: Tissue engineering, biomaterials, central nervous system regeneration. Click to visit Dr. Moore's laboratory website
Walter Lee Murfee
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2005	Email: wmurfee@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 865-5852 Research Interests: Microvascular network growth, multi-cellular coordination during tissue remodeling, biomechanics. Click to visit Dr. Murfee's laboratory website
David A. Rice, P.E.
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies; Ph.D., Purdue University, 1974	Email: rice@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 865-5898 Research Interests: Physiologic modeling, cardiopulmonary mechanics, bioacoustics, instrumentation and signal processing. Click to visit Dr. Rice's lab page
Sergey Shevkoplyas
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Boston University, 2005	Email: shevkop@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 314-2940 Research Interests: Microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, mechanics of blood flow in microvascular networks.
Cedric F. Walker, P.E.
Professor and Associate Chair Ph.D., Duke University, 1978	Email: cfw@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 865-5866 Research Interests: Telemedicine, neural stimulation, implantable monitoring devices.
Yu-Ping Wang
Associate Professor; Ph.D., Xi'an Jiaotong University, 1996	Email: wyp@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 865-5867 Research Interests: Multiscale Bioimaging, Medical Imaging, Geonomic Imaging, Bioinformatics.
Eiichiro Yamaguchi
Assistant Research Professor Ph.D.,University of Illinois at Urbana, 2005	Email: guchi@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 247-1910 Research 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.
William C. Van Buskirk, P.E.
Emeritus Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 1970 Founding Chair	Email: vanb@tulane.edu Research Interests: Biofluid Mechanics
Paul L. Nunez
Emeritus Professor Ph.D., U.C. San Diego, 1969	Email: pnunez@tulane.edu Research Interests: Brain Physics and Cognitive Science Research

Faculty

Eiichiro Yamaguchi

William C. Van Buskirk, P.E.

Paul L. Nunez