Faculty

The following list reflects primarily the 2010/2011 faculty. Emeritus faculty, adjunct faculty and lecturers are part-time faculty normally employed outside the University.

Murat Alanyali Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, Middle East Technical University (Turkey); MS, Bilkent University (Turkey); PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research interests: communication networks; performance analysis and optimization; stochastic systems; game theory and dynamic resource sharing in communication networks and distributed systems.

Hatice Altug Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, Bilkent University (Turkey); MS, PhD, Stanford University. Research interests: nanophotonics, photonic crystals.

Sean Andersson Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Cornell University; MS, Stanford University; PhD, University of Maryland. Research interests: systems and control theory with applications in nanobioscience, including scanning probe microscopy; robot motion planning and control; symbolic control.

Dorothy Attaway Associate Chair for Undergraduate Manufacturing Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering;  Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, University of South Carolina; MA, PhD, Boston University. Research interests: educational methods, computer programming for engineers.

John Baillieul Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; MM, University of Waterloo (Canada); MS, PhD, Harvard University. Research interests: robotics; control of mechanical systems; mathematic system theory; network science, networked control systems, information-based control.

Lorena Barba Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria (Chile); MS, PhD, California Institute of Technology

Paul Barbone Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Georgia Institute of Technology; MS, PhD, Stanford University. Research interests: theoretical and computational (bio) mechanics; (bio) acoustics; medical ultrasound imaging; inverse problems; asymptotics; FEM; multi-scale modeling, microstructure, theoretical and computational acoustics.

Eytan Barouch Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Hebrew University (Israel); PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Research interests: simulation of industrial processes, numerical analysis, algorithm development.

Soumendra Basu Associate Division Head for Materials Science & Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BTech, Indian Institute of Technology (India); MS, Case Western Reserve University; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: processing/structure/property relationships in environmental barrier, thermal barrier and tribological coatings; photonic, electronic and superconducting thin films; fuel cells; environmental degradation of materials at elevated temperatures; structure and stability of interfaces; characterization of microstructure and phase transformations using electron microscopy techniques.

Enrico Bellotti Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. LAUREA, Politecnico di Milano (Italy); PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology. Research interests: computational electronics; theoretical and computational modeling of nitride semiconductor materials and devices based on II-VI compounds.; power electronics; parallel computing.

Calin Belta Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, MS, Universitatea Technica “Gh. Asachi,” lasi, Romania; MS, Louisiana State University; PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Research interests: verification and control of hybrid systems, robot motion planning and control, multi-agent systems, gene and metabolic networks.

Thomas Bifano Director, Center for Photonics Research; Fraunhofer Professor of Manufacturing Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, MS, Duke University; PhD, North Carolina State University. Research interests: microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). micro-mirror devices, adaptive optics, manufacturing of optical components, opthalmic imaging systems, fluidic microsystems, optical component manufacturing for telecommunication systems, ion beam machining, bioarray synthesis.

Irving J. Bigio Associate Chair of Graduate Programs, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Professor of Physics. BS, MS, PhD, University of Michigan. Research interests: medical applications of optics, lasers, and spectroscopy; biomedical optics and biophotonics; biomolecular dynamics, applied spectroscopy, especially to biomedical problems; nonlinear optics, quantum electronics, and laser physics.

Jacy Bird Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. ScB, Brown University; MEngSci, James Cook University (Australia); MS, PhD, Harvard University

John W. Brackett Professor Emeritus of Electrical & Computer Engineering. SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; PhD, Purdue University

Natalia Broude Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, MS, Moscow State University; PhD, DSci, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (Moscow). Research interests: functional genomics, genome-wide methods for genome studies; bacterial internal organization.

Richard C. Brower Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Research Professor of Physics. BA, MA, Harvard University; PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: molecular dynamics simulation for biomolecules; lattices methods for QCD and statistical mechanics; quantum field theory of strings and particles.

Robert A. Brown University President; Professor, College of Engineering. BS, MS, University of Texas at Austin; PhD, University of Minnesota. Research interests: mathematical modeling of the fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer and interfacial phenomena associated with materials processing, especially melt crystal growth, polymer processing and coating deposition; fluid mechanics of viscoelastic fluids; analysis and numerical simulation of flow instabilities; prediction and characterization of microscopic changes in interface morphology during directional solidification; experimental measurement of microscale morphologies in melt/solid interfaces during solidification; efficient numerical solutions of transport problems, especially by finite element methods; modeling the dynamics of defects in crystalline semiconductors grown from the melt and in semiconductor processing.

Mario Cabodi Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. MSci, Imperial College of Science and Technology (England); PhD, Cornell University. Research interests: micro- and nanofabrication applied to biomedical engineering problems.

David K. Campbell Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BA, Harvard College; PhD, Cambridge University (UK). Research interests: general nonlinear phenomena and complex systems; novel electronic materials, including conducting polymers and organic and high Tc superconductors; electron transport in semiconductor superlattices.

Charles R. Cantor Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Pharmacology, School of Medicine. AB, Columbia University; PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: human genome analysis, molecular genetics; new biophysical tools and methodologies; genetic engineering. (LOA)

Michael Caramanis Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Stanford University; MS, PhD, Harvard University. Research interests: mathematical programming, control and stochastic systems, liberalization of electricity markets and design of market rules.

William M. Carey Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, MS, PhD, The Catholic University of America. Research interests: sound transmission and scattering from bubbly liquids; shallow water acoustics; spatial array processing.

Jeffrey B. Carruthers Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BEng, Carleton University (Canada); MS, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: photonic wireless communication; mobile and wireless networks; engineering education.

Christos G. Cassandras Division Head of Systems Engineering; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, Yale University; MSEE, Stanford University; SM, PhD, Harvard University. Research interests: discrete event and hybrid systems, stochastic control and optimization, computer and communication networks, wireless sensor networks, manufacturing systems, supply chain management, computer simulation, command-control systems.

David A. Castañón Chair, ad interim, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Co-Director, Center of Systems Engineering; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, Tulane University; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: systems theory, stochastic control, automated decision systems for dynamic resource scheduling, pattern recognition, estimation, image understanding, multi-object tracking, combinatorial optimization, parallel and distributed computation.

Supriya Chakrabarti Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering. Research interests: space experimentation; ultraviolet spectroscopy.

Claudio Chamon Professor of Astronomy, Physics. BE, University of Calcutta (India); MS, PhD, University of California at Berkeley. Research interests: theory of materials with complex electronic structure. 

H. Steven Colburn Associate Chair for Undergraduate Programs, Department of Biomedical Engineering. Director, Hearing Research Center; Professor of Biomedical Engineering. SB, SM, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: measurement and modeling of binaural hearing performance; modeling the activity of auditory brainstem neurons; measurement and modeling of spatial attributes of sound perception; speech intelligibility in complex sound environments: the effects of hearing impairments on binaural abilities.

Daniel C. Cole Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, MS, University of Connecticut; PhD, City University of New York. Research interests: simulation of physical processes to aid micro and nano electronic technology development and manufacturability; microlithography, electromagnetics, and intellectual property.

James Collins Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics; University Professor; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. BA, College of the Holy Cross; PhD, University of Oxford (England). Research interests: synthetic biology; systems biology; noise-enhanced sensorimotor function.

Christopher Connor Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology; Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Director of Research, Boston Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology. BA, MEng, Cambridge University (England); PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MD, Harvard Medical School. Research interests: applying the principles of minimally-invasive medical engineering, physiology, and information technology to clinical issues in anesthesiology.

Ayse Coskun Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, Sabanci University (Turkey); MS, PhD, University of California, San Diego. Research interests: energy, temperature, and reliability management of multiprocessor systems; computer architecture; 3-D stacked architectures; embedded systems; green computing; parallel architectures.

Luca Dal Negro Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering. Research interests: optical amplification phenomena and laser physics; optical spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures; photonic crystals, Anderson light localization and aperiodic dielectrics; nanophotonics and plasmonics; novel, nanostructured-based materials solutions for CMOS-compatible light sources and lasers; characterization of optical transitions in Si-based nanostructures via optical spectroscopy and light amplification techniques.

Edward Damiano Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; MS, Washington University. Research interests: integrated cellular and extracellular biomechanics; biofluid dynamics; microcirculation; microhemofludices; non Newtonian rheology; closed-loop blood-glucose regulation.

Charles DeLisi Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering; Arthur G. B. Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Physics. BA, City College of New York; PhD, New York University. Research interests: developing and applying computational/mathematical methods, and high throughput experimental methods to analyze change in gene and protein expression profiles in response to various endogenous and exogenous signals.

Carlo J. De Luca Director, NeuroMuscular Research Center; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Research Professor of Neurology. BS, University of British Columbia (Canada); MSc, University of New Brunswick (Canada); PhD, Queens University (Canada). Research interests: motor control of normal and abnormal muscles; objective assessment of movement in neurologically impaired individuals; innovative technology for monitoring and analyzing surface EMG signals.

Micah Dembo Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, Allegheny College; PhD, Cornell University. Research interests: statistical mechanics in biological systems, cellular information processing and signal transduction; thermodynamics and mechanics of cell adhesion; biophysics of cell deformation; active motility.

Douglas Densmore Richard and Minda Reidy Family Career Development Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, University of Michigan; MS, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: bio-design automation for synthetic biology; cyber physical systems; domain-specific languages for biology; embedded systems; design for test.

Theo A. de Winter Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. AB, Bowdoin College; SB, SM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; PE. Research interests: superconductivity, cryogenics, heat transfer, product design, magnetic systems application.

Frank Dibella Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering. BS, Northeastern University; MEng, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Chuanhua Duan Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BE, ME, Tsinghua University (China); PhD, University of California, Berkeley.

Daniel Ehrlich Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering. PhD, University of Rochester. Research interests: new instrumentation and methods for cell-based assays; deep-UV microscopy; microfluidics for assay of DNA, RNA, and proteins.

Solomon R. Eisenberg Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, College of Engineering; Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. SB, SM, ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: electrically mediated phenomena in tissues and biopolymers; cartilage biomechanics; computational modeling of electric field distribution in the human thorax and heart during defribrillation; transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Kamil L. Ekinci Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Bogazici University (Turkey); MS, PhD, Brown University. Research interests: nanotechnology; nanolectromechanical systems (NEMS); nanomechanics; ultrasensitive metrology; scanning probe microscopy (SPM) of dynamical nanosystems; dissipation and noise in mechanical systems; physics of ultra-thin films.

Shayamsunder Erramilli Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Physics. BS, University of Pune (India); MS, Indian Institute of Technology (India); PhD, University of Illinois. Research interests: biological physics.

Evan A. Evans Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, MS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; PhD, University of California, San Diego. Research interests: nano-microscale mechanics; ultrasensitive force probes and extreme resolution optical techniques; material properties of cellular structure; role of structural forces in cell biochemistry.

Caleb Farny Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering. BS, University of Rochester; MS, PhD, Boston University. Research interests: physical acoustics; biomedical ultrasound; bubbles and cavitation.

Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii Professor of Biomedical Engineering. MSc, PhD, Moscow Physical-Technical Institute (Russia); ScD, Institute of Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences (Russia). Research interests: DNA structures; DNA topology; DNA functioning; PNA (peptide nucleicacid).

Theodore Fritz Professor of Astronomy; Center for Space Physics; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; MS, PhD, University of Iowa. Research interests: space plasma and magnetospheric physics; magneto sphere-ionsphere coupling; substorms; charged particles and compositions; rocket and satellite experiments; heavy ions.

James Galagan Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Director, Systems Biology, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory; Associate Director, Microbial Genome Analysis, Broad Institute; Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, University of California, Davis; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: develop efficient and accurate methodologies for the analysis of genomic data, with a particular focus on infectious diseases; systems biology; tuberculosis; computational biology; genomics and microbiology.

Michael A. Gevelber Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. SB, Brown University; SM, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: developing improved materials processing capabilities by applying a controls-based approach: modeling, sensor development, system and control design, experimental verification. Projects include ebeam deposition of optical coatings, electrospinning of nanofibers, plasma spray, bulk crystal growth, and CVD.

Oded Ghitza Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, MS, PhD, Tel Aviv University. Research interests: decoding speech using neuronal oscillations; hierarchical neuronal oscillators and the basis for cortical computation; analysis of MEG signals recorded while performing a speech perception task; predicting consonant confusions in noise; closed-loop auditory models for robust automatic speech recognition; modeling damaged cochleae using speech-governed methodologies.

Roscoe C. Giles Deputy Director, Center for Computational Science; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BA, University of Chicago; MS, PhD, Stanford University. Research interests: advanced computer architectures; distributed and parallel computing; computational science.

Bennett Goldberg Professor of Physics; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BA, Harvard University; ScM, PhD, Brown University. Research interests: high resolution 4Pi microscopy; microring resonator biosensors; numerical aperture increasing lens microscopy (NAIL); optical properties of carbon nanotubes; resonant cavity imaging biosensor (RCIB).

Lee Goldstein Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Ophthalmology, Neurology, Pathology, and Laboratory Medicine, and Director of the Molecular Aging & Development Laboratory, School of Medicine. BA, Columbia University; MD, PhD, Yale University. Research interests: laser diagnostics; experimental pathology; transitional neuroscience; molecular biology; biophotonics; radiobiology; biometallomics; Alzheimer’s disease; Down Syndrome; neurodegeneration, cataracts; molecular aging; ethnopharmacology.

Srikanth Gopalan Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BTech, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India; PhD, University of Utah. Research interests: fuel cells, chemical thermodynamics, kinetics and transport phenomena to model the behavior of electrochemical systems; solid state ionics, defect chemistry of oxides, fuel cells and gas separation membranes, and transport phenomena in materials science.

Sheryl Grace Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering; BS, University of Akron; MS, Oklahoma State University; MS, PhD, University of Notre Dame. Research interests: unsteady aero/hydro-dynamics; aeroacoustics; inverse problems; computational fluid dynamics; applied mathematics.

Mark W. Grinstaff Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Chemistry. AB, Occidental College; PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Research interests: biomaterials; tissue engineering; drug delivery; macromolecular chemistry and engineering self-assembly; nanodevices.

Stephen Grossberg Founding Chair and Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Mathematics; Professor of Psychology; Director, Center for Adaptive Systems. BA, Dartmouth College; MS, Stanford University; PhD, Rockefeller University. Research interests: vision; audition; language; learning and memory; reward and motivation; cognition; development; sensory-motor control; mental disorders; applications.

James A. Hamilton Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, and Research Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine. BS, Juniata College; PhD, Indiana University. Research interests: novel approaches to biomedical problems by integrating physical-chemical and physiological/biochemical approaches complemented with molecular modeling, molecular biology, and other cell biology methods.

Xue Han Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, Beijing University (China); PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Research interests: Neurotechnology; optical neural modulation; optogenetics; neural prosthetics; neural network dynamics; brain rhythms; neurological and psychiatric diseases; cognition.

William Hauser Associate Professor of the Practice, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Swarthmore College; MS, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: remanufacturing industry operations, economics, and business models.

Marc Herant Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, California Institute of Technology; PhD, Harvard University; MD, Washington University School of Medicine

Martin C. Herbordt Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, University of Pennsylvania; MS, PhD, University of Massachusetts (Amherst). Research interests: computer architecture; high-performance computing systems; FPGA- and GPU-based applications and environments; high-level design automation; bioinformatics and computational chemistry.

R. Glynn Holt Associate Chair for the Graduate Mechanical Engineering Program; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, MS, PhD, University of Mississippi. Research interests: acoustic cavitation and bubble dynamics, biomedical ultrasound, HIFU and therapeutic ultrasound, sonoluminescence, liquid drip dynamics, acoustic levitation, aqueous foam dynamics and rheology.

Mark N. Horenstein Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. SB, PhD, Massachussetts Institute of Technology; MS, University of California, Berkeley; PE. Research interests: applied electromagnetics; electrostatics; microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

Michael Howe Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BSc, PhD, Imperial College (England). Research interests: fluid mechanics; acoustics; random vibration; structural mechanics.

Allyn E. Hubbard Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, MS, PhD, University of Wisconsin. Research interests: auditory physiology; experiments and modeling; neurocomputing;  VLSI in biomedical applications; biosensors; VLSI design using analog and digital techniques in CMOS; neural net chips, smart sensor chips, and chips with biological applications; models of the peripheral auditory system.

Morton S. Isaacson Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, University of Rochester; SM, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: experimental fluid mechanics; transport processes; environmental flows; energy and environmental policy; undergraduate education.

Prakash Ishwar Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BTech, Indian Institute of Technology (India); MS, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research interests: statistical signal processing and machine learning; network information theory coding and computation; secure multi-party computation; visual information processing and analysis.

Sergei Ivanov Research Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. MS, Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute (Russia); PhD, Clark University

Andrew C. Jackson Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, MS, University of Nevada; PhD, University of Mississippi Medical School. Research interests: respiratory physiology; respiratory mechanics; role of airway closure in asthma.

Hernan J. Jara Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, MS, Universidad de Chile (Chile); PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago. Research interests: biomedical imaging; atomic, molecular, and laser physics.

Ajay Joshi Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BEng, University of Mumbai (India); MS, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology. Research interests: on-chip and off-chip communication; digital/analog circuit design; computer architecture; reliable circuits and systems; physical design.

W. Clement Karl Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering. SB, SM, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: statistical signal processing; multidimensional and multiscale signal and image processing.

Mark Karpovsky Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, MS, PhD, Technical University of Saint Petersburg (Russia). Research interests: design of secure cryptographic devices and smart cards; routing in interconnection networks design and protection of cryptographic devices; fault-tolerant computing; error correcting codes; testing and diagnosis of computer hardware.

Simon Kasif Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, Tel Aviv University (Israel); MS, PhD, University of Maryland. Research interests: computational biology; functional and comparative genomics; biotechnology; algorithm design; bioinformatics; computer-aided biology.

Damir Khismatullin Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. MS, PhD, Bashkir State University (Russia)

Thomas G. Kincaid Professor Emeritus of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, Queen’s University, Kingston (Canada); SM, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Catherine M. Klapperich Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. SM, Harvard University; PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: nanomechanics of hydrated biomaterials; gene expression in cells in the cell-biomaterial surface; microfluidic device design.

Ronald Knepper Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BA, Juniata College; BS, MS, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University. Research interests: VLSI integrated circuit technology; SiGe BICMOS device and circuit modeling; silicon CMOS and bipolar devices; numerical device simulation; RF/analog IC design.

Janusz Konrad Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. MEng, Technical University of Szczecin (Poland); PhD, McGill University (Canada). Research interests: digital image and video processing, compression and transmission; visual sensor networks (camera webs); stereoscopic and 3-D imaging; multidimensional digital signal processing.

Nancy Kopell Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Mathematics & Statistics; Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics. AB, Cornell University; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: applied mathematics and dynamical systems.

Robert Kotiuga Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BEng, MEng, PhD, McGill University (Canada). Research interests: electromagnetics; numerical methods for three-dimensional vector field problems; Whitney forms and the Finite Element Method; micromagnetics; nanoscale magnetics; geometric inverse problems; topological aspects of magnetic scalar potentials; Helicity Functionals; analysis of high-performance interconnects.

Dymtro Kozakov Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. MS, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; PhD, Boston University.  Research interests: macromolecular recognition; networks of signaling protein-protein interactions; druggability of genome; protein design.

Min-Chang Lee Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, MS, Tsing Hua University (Taiwan); PhD, University of California, San Diego. Research interests: radio communications; experimental plasma physics; ionospheric plasma physics.

Lev Levitin Distinguished Professor of Engineering Science; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. MSc, PhD, Moscow State University (Russia). Research interests: information theory; physics of communication and computing; complex and organized systems; quantum theory of measurement; reliable communication and computing; and bioinformatics.

Xi Lin Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Peking University (China); PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: electronic structure, atomistic, mesoscopic, and continuum materials modeling, conductive polymer electro-opto-mechanical devices, materials strength under ambient and extreme conditions, and automotive catalysis; materials theory; predictive simulation of materials electronic, optical, magnetic, and mechanical properties..

Thomas D. C. Little Associate Chair of Undergraduate Programs, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; MS, PhD, Syracuse University. Research interests: wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networking and computing, vehicular networking, distributed systems, multimedia streaming and storage, video-on-demand, ecological applications, opportunistic networking, ambient computing.

Robert Lund Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BA, MBA, Harvard University. Research interests: remanufacturing: composition, contribution, issues and alternatives.

Fei Luo Research Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, MS, Hefei Polytechnic University (China); PhD, Chongquing University (China). Research interests: optical fiber devices; optical fiber sensors and systems; fiber laser and amplifier.

Kenneth R. Lutchen Dean, College of Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, University of Virginia; MS, PhD, Case Western Reserve University. Research interests: airway and lung tissue mechanics and ventilation; computational modeling of structure—function relations in the lung; mechanical ventilation; integrated biomechanics of the lung; linear and non-linear systems identification.

Malay K. Mazumder Research Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, BS, MS, University of Calcutta (India); PhD, University of Arkansas. Research interests: photovoltaic engineering, self-cleaning solar panels, and hydrogen production; aerosol technology and respiratory drug delivery, material engineering, electrostatic processes.

J. Gregory McDaniel Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, MS, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology. Research interests: structural acoustics and interactions of vibrations and acoustics with complex structures and media; automotive brake squeal; biological vibrations; ocean wave energy

Amit Meller Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, Tel Aviv University (Israel); MS, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel). Research interests: employing nanopore force spectroscopy to study RNA unfolding and re-folding kinetics; DNA switches and transcription initiation kinetics; RNA helicase activity; mapping of transcription factors interactions with DNA; ultra-fast DNA sequencing; development of novel optical methods for single molecule detection in biomedical applications.

Michael Mendillo Professor of Astronomy, Center for Space Physics; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, Providence College; MA, PhD, Boston University. Research interests: signal processing in space physics; GPS satellite communications; space plasmas in the solar system; low-light level optical instrumentation; planetary atmospheres.

Jerome C. Mertz Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BA, Princeton University; PhD, Université Paris VI (France) and University of California, Santa Barbara. Research interests: development and application of new optical microscopy techniques to biological imaging.

Elise Morgan Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering;  Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Stanford University; MS, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: mechanical behavior of biological materials; mechanical stimulation of tissue differentiation; micromechanics of multiscale media; damage mechanics.

Theodore Morse Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BA, MA, Duke University; BS, University of Hartford; MSc, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; PhD, Northwestern University. Research interests: photonic material processing; optical fiber fabrication, lasers, and sensors; high-power double clad fiber lasers, aerosol techniques for the synthesis of fiber lasers, unagglommerated nanoscale particles, transparent ceramics for high power laser applications and large-scale gamma-ray scintillators for medical imaging and explosive detection.

David C. Mountain, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Research Professor of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine. SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MS, PhD, University of Wisconsin. Research interests: auditory information processing, sensory biophysics, computer simulation; biomedical electronics; biomedical signal processing; environmental engineering.

Theodore Moustakas Division Associate Head of Materials Science & Engineering; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Research Professor of Physics; Professor of Materials Science & Engineering. BS/MS, MS, University of Salonika (Greece); PhD, Columbia University. Research interests: growth by MBE, MOCVD, HVPE and gas-cluster ion beam deposition (GCIB); growth, fabrication and characterization of optical devices (UV-LEDs, UV-LDs, optical modulators, detectors), electronic devices (high-power diodes, transistors and thyristors) and electromechanical devices (SiC/III-Nitride MEMS sensors); III-nitride semiconductors (materials growth and device fabrication).

Raymond J. Nagem Associate Chair for Undergraduate Programs, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. SB, SM, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: structural dynamics; random vibration; wave propagation; inverse problems.

S. Hamid Nawab Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Research Professor in Neuromuscular Research Center. SB, SM, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: computational signal processing, applied artificial intelligence; analysis algorithms for EMG signals; analysis algorithms for patient activity signals; analysis algorithms for auditory signals.

Bobak Nazer Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, Rice University; MS, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: information theory; wireless communication; communication networks; distributed signal processing; reliable computation over networks.

Matthew Nugent Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Biochemistry and Ophthalmology, School of Medicine. BA, PhD, Brandeis University. Research interests: response of tissues to injury and disease; design and use of polymer-based controlled drug delivery systems; tissue engineering; the development of computational models of dynamic biological processes. 

Roberto Paiella Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, MS, Columbia University; PhD, California Institute of Technology. Research interests: device physics and applications of semiconductor quantum structures, optoelectronic devices based on group-III nitride semiconductors, terahertz photonics; plasmonics and related optoelectronic device applications, novel device concepts and circuit architectures for ultrafast all-optical information processing; intersubband transitions in III-nitride quantum wells to develop nonlinear optical switches for ultra-high-speed optical communications, and mid- and far-infrared light emitters for sensing and imaging applications.

Uday B. Pal Division Head of Materials Science & Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BTech, Indian Institute of Technology (India); PhD, Pennsylvania State University. Research interests: high-temperature processing of materials with environmental, energy and cost implications. Materials thermodynamics and kinetics, physical chemistry and electrochemistry of materials, solid-state chemistry, transport phenomena, green manufacturing. 

Harold Park Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, MS, PhD, Northwestern University. Research interests: computational nanomechanics; finite elements; molecular dynamics; computational multiphysics modeling; optomechanical, electromechanical, thermomechanical coupling; nanowires; graphene.

Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis Co-Director, Center for Information & Systems Engineering; Academic Director, Sensor Networks Consortium;  Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Professor of Systems Engineering. Diploma, National Technical University of Athens (Greece); SM, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: systems and control, networking, applied probability, optimization, operations research, and computational biology. Specific applications of interest include: communication and sensor networks, protein docking, and supply chains. 

James Perkins Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BA, Harvard University; MS, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research interests: real-time scheduling and control of manufacturing systems, supply chain management, resource pricing and congestion control in communications networks, scheduling human resources in transportation systems and in product development.

David A. Perreault Professor Emeritus of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BSEE, MSEE, PhD, Purdue University

Allan D. Pierce Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, New Mexico State University; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; PE. Research interests: aerodynamic sound, ocean engineering, wind turbines, vibrations, acoustics, porous media, underwater sound.

Tyrone M. Porter Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering. BS, Prairie View A&M University; PhD, University of Washington. Research interests: ultrasound-enhanced transport of drugs and genes across cell membranes; tissue response to acousto-mechanical forces at the biomolecular level; development of targeted ultrasound contrast agents for image enhancement (molecular imaging), perfusion imaging, and image-guided drug delivery; ultrasound-enhanced drug activity (i.e. chemotherapy, thrombolytics); ultrasound-induced release of therapeutics from polymeric biomaterials; modification of polymer structure and/or function due to energy deposition from ultrasound.

Siddharth Ramachandran Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BTech, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India); MS, University of Madison, Wisconsin; PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research interests: study of light-matter interactions, through linear and nonlinear optics, using nanostructured optical fibers, waveguides, and new materials for the development of next-generation photonic devices. Device applications include high-power lasers, sensing and imaging, and classical and quantum telecommunications.

Jason Ritt Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, Oberlin Conservatory; MA, PhD, Boston University. Research interests: neuroscience of sensorimotor behaviors; biological active sensing; functional role of embodiment in neural computation; brain-machine interfaces; neural prosthetics.

Arthur Rosenthal Professor of Practice in Translational Research, Biomedical Engineering; Director, Coulter Translational Partnership Program. BS, University of Connecticut, PhD, University of Massachusetts. Research interests: design, development, marketing, and entrepreneurship in biomedical engineering.

Ronald A. Roy Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, University of Maine; MS, University of Mississippi; PhD, Yale University. Research interests: physical acoustics, acousto-optics, ultrasonics, underwater sound, bubbles and cavitation, biomedical ultrasound.

Michael F. Ruane Professor Emeritus of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BE, Villanova University; SM, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; PE. Research interests: resonant cavity imaging systems; K–12 outreach and engineering education; optical systems; instrument design.

Emily Ryan Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Tufts University; MS, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University.

Venkatesh Saligrama Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, Indian Institute of Technology (India); MS, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: statistical signal processing; statistical learning theory; computer vision; high-dimensional statistics; sensor networks; communications and networks; information and control theory.

John Samuelson Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology, Goldman School of Dental Medicine. Research interests: use of molecular biological methods to study the biochemistry, cell biology, and evolution of Entamoeba histolytica and Giardia lamblia, simple eukaryotes that cause dysentery and diarrhea.

Vinod K. Sarin Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BSc, University of Wisconsin; MSc, University of Michigan; ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: materials science, physical and chemical vapor deposition of structural coatings, surface modification, consolidation of ceramics, transparent ceramics, scintillators materials, composites.

Aaron Schmidt Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, MS, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: nanotechnology, heat transfer, ultrafast optics and measurement.

Matthias Schneider Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. PhD, University of Munich (Germany).

Mac Schwager Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Stanford University; MS, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Eric Schwartz Professor of Cognitive & Neural Systems; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology. AB, Columbia College; MS, PhD, Columbia University. Research interests: computational neural science; machine vision; neural anatomy; neural modeling.

Daniel Segré Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics; Assistant Professor of Biology. MS, University of Trieste; PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel). Research interests: the evolutionary dynamics of biological networks, in particular in the interplay between response to genetic and environmental perturbations, genomic-level functional organization, and optimal adaptation.

Joshua Semeter Director, Center for Space Physics; Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; MS, PhD, Boston University. Research interests: ionospheric and space plasma physics; spectroscopy of atmospheric airglow and the aurora borealis; image processing; radar systems and radar signal processing.

Kamal Sen Director of Graduate Admissions, Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BA, Bates College; MA, PhD, Brandeis University. Research interests: neural coding of natural sounds; hierarchical auditory processing; neural discrimination, population coding of natural sounds; learning in single neurons and auditory networks.

Alexander Sergienko Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. MS, PhD, Moscow State University (Russia). Research interests: correlation spectroscopy, field optical microscopy and spectroscopy of semiconductor materials and devices; quantum communications; remote laser sensing; laser physics; nonlinear optics; quantum optics, including quantum radiometry and metrology.

Andre Sharon Executive Director, Fraunhofer USA Center for Mechanical Innovation; Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Polytechnic Institute of New York; MS, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Cognitive & Neural Systems. SB, Brown University; MS, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: auditory attention; spatial hearing; neuro-electric imaging; neural coding; plasticity and learning in auditory tasks.

William Skocpol Professor of Physics; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BA, Michigan State University; MA, PhD, Harvard University. Research interests: formerly nanofabrication; device processing; transport experiments in materials. Primary appointment in the Physics Department, now teaching introductory physics courses and doing administrative work as Faculty Director of the Physics Department.

Stelios Smirnakis Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, MA, MD, PhD, Harvard University. Research interests: collaborative research with Professor Lucia M. Vaina.

Cassandra L. Smith Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Biology; Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapies, School of Medicine. BA, MS, West Virginia University; PhD, Texas A&M University. Research interests: molecular biotechnology; genomics; schizophrenia; breast cancer twin studies.

Michael L. Smith Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, University of Memphis; MS, PhD, University of Virginia. Research interests: mechanotransduction via the extracellular matrix; fibronectin structural biology; engineered cell culture platforms for regulating cell behavior in vitro.

Temple F. Smith Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering. BS, Purdue University; PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder. Research interests: syntactic and semantic structure of the genetic information in biomolecular sequences, structures and their evolution.

Irina V. Smolina Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, MS, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; PhD, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Science. Research interests: the development of novel sensitive and selective techniques for molecular diagnostics; exploring the possible use of biological and synthetic DNA analogs for applications in bioengineering, molecular imaging, and single-molecule analysis; new methodologies for multiplexed detection and target quantification.

Dimitrije Stamenovic Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Dipl. Ing., University of Belgrad (Yugoslavia); MS, PhD, University of Minnesota. Research interests: respiratory mechanics; rheology of soft tissues and cells; mechanics of foamlike structures and cellular mechanics.

Eugene Stanley Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Physics; Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Physiology; University Professor. BA, Wesleyan University; PhD, Harvard University. Research interests: application of statistical physics to understanding and preventing diseases related to protein misfolding, such as Alzheimer’s disease; econophysics: using statistical physics concepts to better understand economic questions, physical mechanisms in liquid water, threat networks and threatened networks: stabilization and immunization of networks.

David Starobinski Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, MS, PhD, Techion, Israel Institute of Technology (Israel). Research interests: wireless and sensor networks; QOS and traffic engineering; networks performance evaluation; network monitoring, advanced networking for scientific applications.

Martin Steffen Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. BA, Dartmouth College; MD, PhD, Stanford University. Research interests: tools of systems biology for mammalian cells; technique of mass spectrometry; identifying post-translational modifications; characterizing proteomic differences.

Béla Suki Professor of Biomedical Engineering. MS, PhD, József Attila University (Hungary). Research interests: mechanical properties of living tissues; the ensemble behavior of complex biological systems.

Anna Swan Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola (Sweden); PhD, Boston University. Research interests: optical studies using Raman spectroscopy, Rayleigh scattering and time-resolved pump-probe experiments to study electronic and vibrational properties and energy dissipation mechanisms and exciton dynamics of low-dimensional systems- graphene and carbon nanotubes. Studies performed on single, individual nanotubes and quantum dots. Another area of interest is spectral self-interference spectroscopy for high-resolution imaging and biosensing.

Thomas L. Szabo Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, University of  Virginia; MS, University of Rochester; PhD, University of Bath (England). Research interests: medical imaging, diagnostic ultrasound, tissue characterization, transduction, biomedical signal processing, wave propagation, nonlinear acoustics.

Rina Tannenbaum Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BSc, The Hebrew University (Israel); MSc, Weizman Institute of Science (Israel); DSc, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Guy Thompson Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering. BS, MS, Boston University.

Joe Tien Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, University of California, Irvine; AM, PhD, Harvard University. Research interests: microvascular tissue engineering; microvascular physiology; hydrogels.

Ari Trachtenberg Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MS, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. Research interests: error-correcting codes; security; data synchronization (especially for PDAs and mobile networks); sensor-based location detection; algorithms.

M. Selim Ünlü Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Programs, College of Engineering; Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BSc, Middle East Technical University (Turkey); MS, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research interests: optical characterization and nanophotonics (OCN); near-field optical microscopy and spectroscopy of semiconductor materials and devices; design, processing, characterization, and simulation of semiconductor optoelectronic devices; nanoscale imaging of biological samples, biosensors.

Lucia M. Vaina Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Research Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine. MS, University of Timisoara (Romania); PhD, Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) (France); Doctorat d’Etat des Sciences & Medicine (Neurologie), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (France). Research interests: neuronal mechanisms underlying spatial representation; visual motion perception; perception and action; using functional neuroimaging; psychophysics and computational modeling.

Sandor Vajda Director of the Biomolecular Engineering Research Center; Professor of Biomedical Engineering. MSci, Gubkin Institute (Russia); MSci, Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary); PhD, Hungarian Academy of Science (Hungary). Research interests: primarily optimization; computational chemistry and biology, including protein and peptide structure determination; protein engineering; drug design.

Pirooz Vakili Associate Division Head of Systems Engineering; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Arya-Mehr University (Iran); PhD, Harvard University. Research interests: Monte Carlo simulation and optimization, control and management of manufacturing and communication systems, product development management, computational finance, computational biology.

Richard F.  Vidale Professor Emeritus of Electrical & Computer Engineering. BS, University of Rochester; PhD, University of Wisconsin

Herbert F. Voigt Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Research Professor of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine. EE, City College of New York; PhD, Johns Hopkins University. Research interests: auditory neurophysiology; neural circuitry; neural modeling.

Matthew Wachowiak Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Biology. BS, Duke University; PhD, University of Florida. Research interests: olfactory coding and synaptic processing; imaging; neurophysiology.

Hua Wang Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, University of Science and Technology (China); MS, University of Kentucky; PhD, University of Maryland. Research interests: nonlinear dynamics and control, networked intelligent and complex systems, robotics, control of nonlinear phenomena and bifurcations.

Zhiping Weng Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, University of Science & Technology of China; PhD, Boston University. Research interests: bioinformatics, DNA and protein sequence analysis.

James V. White Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering. BS, Louisiana Tech University; SM, PhD, Johns Hopkins University. Research interests: nonlinear membrane conductances in neutrons; modulation of ion channels; dynamics of neuronal networks.

M. Edward Womble Research Professor, Center for Photonics Research. BS, MS, Auburn University; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joyce Y. Wong Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. SB, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests: biomaterials; tailoring cell-material interfaces for drug delivery and tissue engineering applications; direct, quantitative measurement of biological interactions.

Donald Wroblewski Associate Dean, Educational Initiatives, College of Engineering; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, Pennsylvania State University; MS, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; PE. Research interests: experimental fluid mechanics and heat transfer; thermal spray heat transfer; atmospheric turbulence; turbulent boundary layers.

Yu (Brandon) Xia Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics; Assistant Professor of Chemistry. BS, Peking University (China); PhD, Stanford University. Research interests: computational structural and systems biology; molecular and network evolution; bioinformatics algorithms and applications.

Victor Yakhot Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Degree, Moscow Physics and Engineering Institute (Russia); PhD, Moscow University (Russia). Research interests: theory and numerical simulation of turbulent flows; anomalous scaling phenomena; models for heat and mass transfer in turbulence; engineering and industrial applications, kinetic and lattice Boltzmann methods; theory and computation of nanofluidics phenomena; physics of fluid-solid interfaces, mixing and combustion.

Muhammad Zaman Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering. PhD, University of Chicago. Research interests: systems biology of cancer; cell adhesion and migration in 3-D environments; cellular mechanics; applications of biomedical engineering in the developing world.

Katherine Zhang Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BEng, BEco, Tsinghua University (China); MS, PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder. Research interests: mechanical behavior of soft biological tissues, cardiovascular mechanics, multi-scale modeling of biological composites, micro- and nanomechanics of thin film and thin film devices.

Xin Zhang Fraunhofer Professor of Manufacturing Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering. BS, MS, Northeastern University (China); PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong). Research interests: MEMS; NEMS; specific issues related to materials science, micro/nanomechanics and micro/nanomanufacturing technologies motivated by practical applications in MEMS/NEMS and emerging bio/nanotechnologies.

Peter Zink Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering. BA, University of Colorado; PhD, Boston University.