2023-2024 Bioengineering

5121 Engineering V
Box 951600
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600

310-267-4985
Department e-mail
Department website

Song Li, PhD, Chair
Dino Di Carlo, PhD, Graduate Vice Chair
Jacob J. Schmidt, PhD, Undergraduate Vice Chair

Faculty Roster

Professors

Pei-Yu Chiou, PhD

Mark S. Cohen, PhD, in Residence

Linda L. Demer, MD, PhD

Timothy J. Deming, PhD

Dino Di Carlo, PhD (Armond and Elena Hairapetian Professor of Engineering and Medicine)

Elisa Franco, PhD

Robin L. Garrell, PhD

Tzung K. Hsiai, MD, PhD, in Residence

Daniel T. Kamei, PhD

Andrea M. Kasko, PhD

H. Pirouz Kavehpour, PhD

Chang-Jin (CJ) Kim, PhD (Volgenau Endowed Professor of Engineering)

Debiao Li, PhD, in Residence

Song Li, PhD

Wentai Liu, PhD

Arash Naeim, MD, PhD, in Residence (Neria and Manizheh Yomtoubian Endowed Professor of Cancer and Risk Sciences)

Aydogan Ozcan, PhD (Volgenau Professor of Engineering Innovation)

Jacob Rosen, PhD

Jacob J. Schmidt, PhD

Vivek Shetty, DDS, DrMedDent

Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD, in Residence

Maie A. St. John, MD, PhD

Ren Sun, PhD

Yi Tang, PhD (Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Professor of Chemical Engineering)

Michael A. Teitell, PhD

Cun-Yu Wang, DDS, PhD (Dr. No-Hee Park Professor of Dentistry)

Paul S. Weiss, PhD (Presidential Professor of Chemistry)

Gerard C.L. Wong, PhD

Yang Yang, PhD

Professors Emeriti

Chih-Ming Ho, PhD (Ben Rich Lockheed Martin Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics)

Edward R.B. McCabe, MD, PhD (Mattel Executive Endowed Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics)

Benjamin M. Wu, DDS, PhD

Associate Professors

Corey W. Arnold, PhD, in Residence

Liang Gao, PhD

Weizhe Hong, PhD

William Hsu, PhD, in Residence

Shantanu H. Joshi, PhD, in Residence

Aaron S. Meyer, PhD

Dan Ruan, PhD, in Residence

Assistant Professors

Jun Chen, PhD

Tyler R. Clites, PhD

Mireille Kamariza, PhD

Neil Y.C. Lin, PhD

Jaimie Marie Stewart, PhD

Jennifer L. Wilson, PhD

Holden H. Wu, PhD, in Residence

Adjunct Professors

Sophia N. Barbarie, PhD

Keisuke Goda, PhD

Zhen Gu, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professors

Stephanie K. Seidlits, PhD

Bill J. Tawil, MBA, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Chase Linsley, PhD

Affiliated Faculty

Professors

Peyman Benharash, MD (Cardiothoracic Surgery)

Alex A.T. Bui, PhD (Radiological Sciences)

Dean Buonomano, PhD (Neurobiology, Psychology)

Gregory P. Carman, PhD (Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

Yong Chen, PhD (Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

Aichi Chien, PhD (Radiological Sciences)

Thomas Chou, PhD (Computational Medicine, Mathematics)

Joseph L. Demer, MD, PhD (Neurology, Ophthalmology)

Joseph J. DiStefano III, PhD (Computer Science, Medicine-Endocrinology)

Bruce S. Dunn, PhD (Materials Science and Engineering)

Peyman Golshani, MD, PhD, in Residence (Neurology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences)

Thomas G. Graeber, PhD (Molecular and Medical Pharmacology)

Vijay Gupta, PhD (Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

Y. Sungtaek Ju, PhD (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

Jody E. Kreiman, PhD, in Residence (Head and Neck Surgery, Linguistics)

Rajesh Kumar, PhD, in Residence (Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Radiological Sciences)

Min Lee, PhD (Dentistry)

Daniel S. Levi, PhD (Pediatrics)

Zili Liu, PhD (Psychology)

Dejan Markovic, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Sotiris C. Masmanidis, PhD (Neurobiology)

Heather D. Maynard, PhD (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Harold G. Monbouquette, PhD (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)

Kim-Lien Nguyen, MD, in Residence (Medicine-VA, Radiological Sciences)

Ichiro Nishimura, DDS, DMSc, DMD (Dentistry)

Matteo Pellegrini, PhD (Human Genetics; Medicine-Dermatology; Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)

Laurent Pilon, PhD (Environment and Sustainability, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

Dario L. Ringach, PhD (Neurobiology, Psychology)

Amy C. Rowat, PhD (Integrative Biology and Physiology)

Veronica J. Santos, PhD (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

Ladan Shams, PhD (Psychology)

Chia B. Soo, MD (Orthopaedic Surgery, Plastic Surgery)

Ricky K. Taira, PhD, in Residence (Radiological Sciences)

James G. Tidball, PhD (Integrative Biology and Physiology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)

Hsian-Rong Tseng, PhD (Molecular and Medical Pharmacology)

Michael R. van Dam, PhD (Molecular and Medical Pharmacology)

David T.W. Wong, DMD, DMSc (Dentistry-Oral Biology)

Lily Wu, PhD, MD (Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Pediatrics, Urology)

Xinshu Grace Xiao, PhD (Integrative Biology and Physiology)

Zhaoyan Zhang, PhD, in Residence (Head and Neck Surgery)

Z. Hong Zhou, PhD (Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics)

Professors Emeriti

Victor R. Edgerton, PhD (Integrative Biology and Physiology, Neurobiology)

Alan Garfinkel, PhD (Integrative Biology and Physiology, Medicine-Cardiology)

Bahram Jalali, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

William J. Kaiser, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Elliot M. Landaw, MD, PhD (Computational Medicine)

Harry A. McKellop, PhD (Orthopaedic Surgery)

Peter M. Narins, PhD (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Integrative Biology and Physiology)

Associate Professors

Aydin Babakhani, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Louis S. Bouchard, PhD (Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics and Astronomy)

Robert N. Candler, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

Benjamin M. Ellingson, PhD (Neurosurgery, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Radiological Sciences)

Sam Emaminejad, PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Alireza Moshaverinia, DDS, MS, PhD, FACP (Dentistry)

Kyung Hyun Sung, PhD, in Residence (Radiological Sciences)

Nanthia A. Suthana, PhD, in Residence (Neurosurgery, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Psychology)

Yuhua Zhang, PhD, in Residence (Opthalmology)

Assistant Professors

Daniel B. Aharoni, PhD, in Residence (Neurology)

Nasim Annabi, PhD (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)

Anthony G. Christodoulou, PhD, in Residence (Medicine)

Jeffrey J. Hsu, MD, PhD (Medicine-Cardiology)

Achuta Kadambi, PhD (Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering)

René R. Sevag Packard, MD, PhD, in Residence (Medicine-Cardiology, Physiology)

Junyoung O. Park, PhD (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)

Behzad Sharif, PhD, in Residence (Medicine-Cedars-Sinai)

Jingwen Yao, PhD (Radiological Sciences)

Adjunct Professor

Robert D. Damoiseaux, PhD (Molecular and Medical Pharmacology)

Adjunct Assistant Professors

Tanuj Gulati, PhD (Medicine-Cedars Sinai)

William F. Speier, PhD (Radiological Sciences)