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.
J. Quincy Brown
Assistant Professor Ph.D., Louisiana Tech University, 2005	Email: jqbrown@tulane.edu Phone: (504) 865-5851 Research Interests: Application and translation of quantitative spectroscopy and imaging tools for the improvement of cancer management in the clinical setting.
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; Paul H. and Donna D. Flower Early Career Professor in Engineering; Oliver Fund Scholar 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
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
David A. Rice, P.E.
Emeritus Professor 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

Faculty

Eiichiro Yamaguchi

William C. Van Buskirk, P.E.

Paul L. Nunez