In the Spotlight Featured Researchers
The humans behind our groundbreaking research
Our researchers include some of the foremost authorities across every imaginable discipline. And we’re not the only ones who think so. See where else they’ve been turning heads.

Mo Khalil

Ksenia Bravaya

Roscoe Giles
Featured Researchers
Get to know some of the researchers here at Boston University who are leading the way in discovery to better our world.

Christopher Chen
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Focus: How cells interact with their environment

Jerry Chen
Assistant Professor, Biology
Focus: How the brain assembles sensory information into abstract representations

Christine Cheng
Assistant Professor, Biology
Focus: Improving the ability to model brain diseases using a synthetic 3-D brain organoid

Stephanie Curenton
Associate Professor, Education Leadership & Policy Studies
Focus: Using applied developmental psychology to study classrooms and educational settings for young children

Wynter Duncanson
Assistant Dean, Outreach and Diversity, Engineering
Focus: Biomedical Engineering and STEM Diversity

Alina Ene
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Focus: Theoretical computer science and algorithms; optimization; theoretical machine learning

James Galagan
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Focus: Systems Biology of microbial organisms

Stefan Hofmann
Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences; Director, Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory
Focus: Psychological treatments for anxiety disorders

Masha Kamenetska
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Focus: Single molecule nano-manipulation, how the intermolecular interface affects function in biological and man-made devices

Catherine Klapperich
Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Director, Precision Diagnostics Center
Focus: Disposable microfluidic diagnostics, molecular testing; diagnostics for CT-NG, HPV and other sexually transmitted diseases

Leonid Levin
Professor, Computer Science
Focus: Complex algorithms, information theory

Laura Lewis
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Focus: Computational and signal processing of neuroimaging data across sleep, wake, attentional, and affective states

Weining Lu
Associate Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Focus: Genetics of kidney development and congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract

Ann McKee
Professor, Neurology & Pathology
Focus: Neurodegenerative diseases, mild traumatic brain injury from contact sports and military service and its long-term consequences

Jerome Mertz
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Focus: Development and applications of novel optical microscopy techniques for biological imaging

Uday Pal
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Chemical thermodynamics; electrochemical systems

Siddharth Ramachandran
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Focus: Optical physics of guided waves, optical fibers

Steve Ramirez
Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences
Focus: Revealing the neural circuit mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval, and artificially modulating memories to combat maladaptive states

Sahar Sharifzadeh
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering
Focus: Understanding the optoelectronic properties of materials

Cara Stepp
Associate Professor, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences; Director, Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Engineering Lab
Focus: Using engineering tools to rehabilitate disordered sensorimotor functions of voice and speech

James Traniello
Professor, Biology
Focus: Behavior, ecology, and evolution of social insects

James Uden
Associate Professor, Classical Studies
Focus: Latin literature and the transformation of ancient ideas in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Emily Whiting
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Focus: Computational fabrication, architectural geometry, and computer aided design

Joyce Wong
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Focus: Development of biomaterials, cellular processes
Get it from our Top Media Experts
If you’re interested in contacting one of our experts in a particular field, you’ll find them in our Faculty Experts directory.