PhD
Biomedical Engineering,
Applying for Admission
Standard requirements for all graduate programs
- Application for Admission with $50 non-refundable application fee.
- Transcripts (unofficial): Uploaded as part of application form.
If International: Uploads must include all college- or university-level transcripts or mark sheets (records of courses and marks earned), with certificates, diplomas, and degrees plus certified English translations.
After admission: Official documents are required from all students who are admitted and enroll. Photocopies of certified records are not acceptable. International students enrolled in other U.S. institutions may have certified copies of all foreign records sent directly to the Office of Graduate Studies by their current school’s registrar office.
- If applicant’s native language is not English, verification of English proficiency
is required.
When sending TOEFL scores, our institution code is 6877 and a department code is not needed.
- If applicant is not a US citizen and expects an F or J visa: financial information.
- Applicants must also fulfill any additional requirements the department specifies at the time of application.
Additional requirements specific to this program
- GRE General (optional)
- GRE Subject (optional)
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement: Indicate within your personal statement the specific field of biomedical engineering in which you are interested. It is helpful (but not required) for your statement to describe how your interests relate to the areas of research of any faculty members you name as potential advisors in this form’s Faculty item.
- Coursework: Biomedical Engineering Prerequisite Coursework Form
- Faculty: Identify one or more faculty members in this department with whom you would like to work.
Admission Application Deadlines
For full funding consideration, students must choose Fall term and submit applications by January 15.
Department
Graduate Chair
Support Staff
Program Faculty
Fadi Alsaleem (bio)
Nonlinear Dynamics of MEMS, Smart MEMS, IoT, Smart Building, Online Monitoring and Diagnostics, Big Data Analysis
Steven Barlow (bio)
Communication Neuroscience, Speech Motor Control, Sensorimotor Control, Neurorehabilitation
Greg Bashford (bio)
Cerebral Blood Flow, Diagnostic Ultrasound, Medical Imaging, Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, Biosignal Processing
Mark Beatty (bio)
Dentistry, Development of Maxillofacial Prosthetic Materials, Cartilage Tissue Engineering
Juan Cui (bio)
Computational and Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Cancer Informatics, Data Mining and Machine Learning
Shudipto Dishari (bio)
Polymers and Nanomaterials, Thin Films and Membranes, Energy, Chemobiorecognition and Bioseparation
Andrew Dudley (bio)
Extracellular Matrix Biology, Cell Adhesion, Chondrocyte Mechanobiology, Developmental Biology
Shane Farritor (bio)
Robotic Highway Safety Markers, Miniature Surgical Robots, Real-Time Measurement of Track Stiffness, Planetary Cliff Descent Using Cooperative Robots
Stephen Gliske (bio)
Computational and Translational Neuroscience, Applied Data Science, EEG and MEG, Epilepsy and Sleep Biomarkers
Hani Haider (bio)
Orthopaedic Biomechanics, Joint Replacement, Gait Analysis, Medical Device Testing
Nicole Iverson (bio)
Biomedical Engineering, Nanotechnology, Biological Sensors, Disease Development and Resistance, Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species
Alexey Kamenskiy (bio)
Vascular Biomechanics, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Medical Devices, Computational Biomechanics
Jennifer Keshwani (bio)
Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials
Srivatsan Kidambi (bio)
In Vitro Models of Brain, Liver, Cancer Nanoscale Drug Delivery Platforms for miRNA/Small Drug Molecules
Forrest Kievit (bio)
Developing nanoparticle-based delivery vehicles for transport into the brain for more effective brain cancer and brain injury treatments, Nanoparticle-mediated delivery of nucleic acids into brain tumors
Christopher Kovach (bio)
Functional Neurosurgery, Neural Engineering, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Brain Mapping
Josephine Lau (bio)
Building sustainability, Indoor Air Quality, Air Flow Modeling and Measurement, Energy Simulation of HVAC Systems, Air Cleaning and Filtration Technologies
Jung Yul Lim (bio)
Regulate Cell Function and Fate via Applying Biomaterial Cues, Integrate Molecular Engineering of Key Signaling Molecules to Reveal the Role of Focal Adhesion, Cytoskeletal Tension, Cell-Cell Interaction, and Immune Response
Eric Markvicka (bio)
Robotics, Stretchable Electronics, Soft Materials, Liquid Metals
Fanben Meng (bio)
Bioprinting, 3D Printing, Nanofabrication, Reconstruction of Physiological Microenvironments, 3D In Vitro Disease Models, Drug Screening, Regenerative Medicine, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Biomedical Devices
Nitesh Nama (bio)
Computational Cardiovascular Biomechanics, Cardiovascular Mass Transport, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Finite Element Analysis, Continuum Mechanics, Nonlinear Elasticity, Microfluidics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Acoustofluidics, Lab-on-a-chip
Carl Nelson (bio)
Mechanical Systems Design and Analysis, Medical Robotics, Modularity in Mechanical Systems, Graph-Theoretic Techniques in Robotics and Mechanical Systems Design
Wei Niu (bio)
Apply Metabolic Engineering Principles and Synthetic Biology tools to the Microbial Synthesis of Industrial or other Value Added Chemicals from Renewable Feedstocks, Develop New Enzyme Catalysts and Auxiliary Functional Proteins
Angela Pannier (bio)
Tissue Engineering of Growth Plate Cartilage, Gene Delivery to hMSCs, Gene Delivery in General, DNA Vaccination Particles
Ryan Pedrigi (bio)
Mechanobiology, Experimental and Computational Biomechanics, Cell Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, Medical Devices, Cardiovascular Medicine, Ophthalmology, and Wound Healing
Max Pierobon (bio)
Molecular Communication Theory for Nanonetworks, Communication Engineering Applied to Intelligent Drug Delivery Systems, Biological Circuit Network Engineering
Kevin Pitt (bio)
Augmentative and Alterative Communication, Brain-Computer Interface
Mohammad Razavi (bio)
Lymphatic Bioengineering, Tissue Biomechanics & Computational Modeling, Biomedical Imaging, Regenerative Medicine
Benjamin Riggan (bio)
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Biometrics, Biomedical Image Analysis
Rajib Saha (bio)
Reconstruction and Analysis of Genome-Scale and Community Models, Systems-Level Analysis of Omics Data, Development of Genetic Toolkit and Engineering Metabolic Pathways, Redesign Photosynthetic Apparatus and Carbon Fixing Mechanism
Bonita Sharif (bio)
Empirical software engineering, Program comprehension, Eye tracking, Biometrics, Human factors, Software traceability, Software visualization, Applied machine learning
Terry Stentz (bio)
Physical work capacity simulation (ERGOS), Human factors, Ergonomics, Occupational safety and health, Infectious disease and biocontainment analysis, Productivity, Fall analysis, Leadership and strategic planning, Injury epidemiology
Nick Stergiou (bio)
Biomechanics, Human Movement Variability and Injury Prevention
Yingying Wang (bio)
Noise Control, Room Acoustics, Building Environmental Effects on Humans
Tadeusz Wysocki (bio)
Wireless Communications, Information Theory, Antenna Systems, Channel Coding, Nano Communications, Modeling Biological Processes at Cellular Level Using Queuing Theory, Molecular Signaling, Gene Delivery, Targeted Drug Delivery, Metabolomics Networks
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