Directory
Junjie Yao, Ph.D.
junjie.yao@duke.eduJeffrey N. Vinik Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) technologies, and translating PAT advances into diagnostic and therapeutic applications, especially in functional brain imaging and early cancer theranostics.
Lingchong You, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
Quantitative biology, synthetic biology, machine learning, antibiotic resistance, microbiome
Rabih Younes
rabih.younes@duke.eduAssociate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of ECE
Research Interests
Wearable computing, artificial intelligence/machine learning, engineering education, and Middle Eastern politics
Research Interests
Principles and mechanisms of delivery for drugs, genes, and vaccines; pharmacokinetics; electrotransfer or electroporation technology; and tumor pathophysiology.
Michael Rod Zalutsky
zalut001@mc.duke.eduJonathan Spicehandler, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Neuro Oncology, in the School of Medicine
Marta Zaniolo, Ph.D.
marta.zaniolo@duke.eduAssistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
Water resources planning and management, drought modeling and control, flexible climate change adaptation, conceptual and data-driven systems modeling, reinforcement learning for water systems, multi-objective control,…
Stefan Zauscher, Ph.D.
zauscher@duke.eduDirector of Graduate Studies and Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of MEMS
Research Interests
Nano-mechanical and nano-tribological characterization (elasticity, friction, adhesion) of materials including organic thin films; self-assembled monolayers, polymeric gels, and cellulosics; Fabrication of polymeric nanostructures by scanning…
Michael Zavlanos, Ph.D.
michael.zavlanos@duke.eduProfessor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests
Control theory, optimization, and learning; in particular, robotics and autonomous systems, networked and distributed control systems, and cyber-physical systems.
Research Interests
Machine Learning / AI Method Development for OmicsWe develop computational methods leveraging interpretable machine learning / AI models, large-scale single-cell genomics data, cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics,…
Pei Zhong, Ph.D.
pzhong@duke.eduProfessor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests
Mechanistic investigation and technology development in shock wave and laser lithotripsy; Ultrasound-elicited mechanotransduction, neuromodulation and sonogenetics; HIFU and immunotherapy for cancer treatment; Acoustic and optical…
Research Interests
Zhu Lab WebsiteNeuronal Control of Cardiac ElectrophysiologySudden arrhythmic death is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. My laboratory utilizes cutting-edge neuroscience techniques to study the…