Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Researchers in the Bioengineering Research Group develop innovative micro- and nanoscale devices and materials for the study of biological entities such as microorganisms, cells, proteins, DNA, and single molecules. The use of nanotechnology, combined with our state-of-art computational and imaging tools, enable us to pursue cutting-edge research in this research area.

The Bioengineering group’s current research focuses on:

• Microfluidic manipulation of single cells
• MEMS technology for plant parasites
• Biophotonics
• Ultrasound technologies for tissue engineering
• Carbon nanotube technologies for energy harvesting
• Novel organic and silicon solar cells
• Biological image-processing and patter recognition
• VLSI and mathematical modeling of gene regulatory circuits
• Bioinformatics
  

• Srinivas Aluru
• Viren Amin
• Timothy Bigelow
• Sumit Chaudhary
• Julie Dickerson
• Liang Dong
• Nicola Elia
• Jayeoun Kim
• Nathan Neihart
• Santosh Pandey (group chair)
• Namrata Vaswani
• Robert Weber
  

• Ames Laboratory
• Analog and Mixed Signal VLSI Design Center
• Microelectronics Research Center
  

• Biomedical Engineering Laboratory
• Micro/Nano Systems Laboratory
• Plasmonics and Microphotonics (Biophotonics) Laboratory