Faculty

BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Paul Barbone, Ph.D., Professor of Mechanical Engineering: expert in acoustics, with an emphasis on its application for application of measuring mechanical properties of tissues (i.e. bulk modulus)

Irving Bigio, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, and Medicine: expert in optics and biophotonics, with an emphasis on cancer detection, measuring tissue properties, and evaluating pharmacokinetics

David Boas, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering: expert in novel optical imaging platforms with an emphasis in neurophotonics

Allison Dennis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering: expert in optics-based contrast materials for probing extracellular/intracellular environment and protein expression

Mark Grinstaff, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemistry; Director of the Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology: expert in translational image contrast materials for probing extracellular environment and tissue structure/anatomy

Catherine Klapperich, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering: expert in image-based diagnostic platforms with an emphasis on cancer and infectious diseases

Jerome Mertz, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering: expert in optics-based techniques for examining cell and tissue structures

Joyce Wong, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering: expert in biomaterials with an emphasis on the development of targeted contrast materials for molecular imaging applications

Xue Han, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering: expert in optogenetics with an emphasis on light-triggered modulation of neural pathways

Glynn Holt, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering: expert in acoustics and bubble dynamics with an emphasis on drug delivery and tissue ablation

Tyrone Porter, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering; Associate Director for the BU Nanotechnology Innovation Center, expert in nanobiotechnology, biomaterials, and acoustics with an emphasis on development of colloids for molecular imaging, triggerable drug delivery, and image-guided interventions

Darren Roblyer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering: expert in optics with an emphasis on systems for evaluating pharmacokinetics and interrogating tissue response to pharmaceutical intervention

David Castanon, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering: expert in information sciences and parallel computing, with an emphasis on image processing and reconstruction

Prakash Ishwar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering: expert in network information theory, machine learning, and visual information processing and analysis

Ajay Joshi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering: expert in computer architecture and digital/analog circuit design with an emphasis on efficient management and storage of large data sets

W. Clem Karl, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering: expert in statistical and multidimensional signal and image processing, with an emphasis on image reconstruction

Janusz Konrad, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering: expert in visual sensor networks, image and video processing, and stereoscopic and multidimensional imaging

Ioannis Paschalidis, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Co-Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering: expert in systems optimization and control, bioinformatics, and medical informatics

Venkatesh Saligrama, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering: expert in machine learning, information and control theory, statistical signal processing, and video analysis

BRIGHAM & WOMEN’S HOSPITAL
Nathalie Y.R. Agar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology, Surgery and Neurosurgery: expert in spectrometric techniques for imaging and analyzing the molecular profiles of disease

Li Chai, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology: expert in cancer pathology and transcriptional regulators of stem cells

Marcelo F. Di Carli, M.D., Professor of Radiology, Cardiovascular Medicine, and Molecular Imaging: expert in novel techniques for cardiovascular imaging

Daniela Dinulescu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology: expert in cancer pathology and molecular biology, with applications in molecular imaging and targeted therapeutics

Hiroto Hatabu, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Radiology and Medical Sciences: expert in pulmonary and functional MR imaging and image-based phenotyping

Alexander Lin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology: expert in MRI spectroscopy and cardiovascular MR imaging

Stephen Moore, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics and Medical Biophysics: expert in nuclear medicine physics and molecular imaging

Srinivasan Mukundan, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology, Chemistry, and Biology: expert in neuroradiology and formulation of colloid-based contrast media for imaging

George Mutter, M.D., Professor of Radiology: expert in molecular biology of gynecologic cancers and its use in diagnostics practices

Lawrence Panych, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology: expert in functional MRI, spectroscopic imaging, and interventional MRI

Samuel Patz, Ph.D., Professor of Radiology, Scientific Director of the Center for Pulmonary Functional Imaging: expert in MR physics and functional MRI

Emily Stern, M.D., Associate Professor of Radiology: expert in functional and molecular neuoroimaging methods and applications

Geoffrey Young, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology: expert in neuroradiology and cancer imaging

Fiona Fennessy, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology: expert in pelvic MR imaging, cancer imaging, and MR-guided focused ultrasound therapy

Alexandra Golby, M.D., Associate Professor of Radiology: expert in neurosurgery and image-guided therapy

Eva Gombos, M.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology: expert in breast MR imaging and image-guided therapy

Mizuki Nishino Hatabu, M.D., Associate Professor of Radiology and Thoracic Imaging: expert cancer imaging and image assessment of molecular targeted therapeutics

Nathan McDannold, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology: expert in MR-guided focused ultrasound, with an emphasis on ablation and localized delivery of therapeutic agents to the brain

Bruno Madore, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology: expert in fast MR imaging, with an emphasis on temperature mapping and quantifying tissue mechanical properties

Stephen Moore, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology, Director of Nuclear Medicine Physics: expert in nuclear medicine technology and image processing methods

Stuart Silverman, M.D., Professor of Radiology: expert in interventional radiology of the abdomen, with an emphasis on evaluating non-surgical ablation of abdominal tumors

Clare Tempany, M.D., Professor of Radiology, Director of the National Center for Image-Guided Therapy (NCIGT): expert in pelvic MR imaging, with an emphasis on pelvic oncology, and image-guided interventions of pelvic disease

Akila Viswanathan, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology: expert in brachytherapy and minimal invasive therapy

Katherine Andriole, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology: expert in medical imaging informatics

Andrey Federov, Ph.D., Instructor in Radiology: expert in medical imaging informatics and computational methods for image analysis and visualization

Ron Kikinis, M.D., Professor of Radiology: expert in computational methods for image analysis/visualization and medical informatics

Frederick Schoen, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology: expert in cardiovascular biomaterials, cardiovascular pathology, and computational pathology

William Wells, Ph.D., Professor of Radiology: expert in computational methods for image analysis and visualization

Carl Westin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology: expert in computational methods for image analysis and visualization