All Faculty
Gaurav Arya
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
My research laboratory uses physics-based computational tools to provide fundamental, molecular-level understanding of a diverse range of biological...
Harold U. Baranger
Professor of Physics
The broad focus of Prof. Baranger's group is quantum open systems at the nanoscale, particularly the generation of correlation between particles in...
David N. Beratan
R.J. Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Dr. Beratan is developing theoretical approaches to understand the function of complex molecular and macromolecular systems, including: the molecular...
Volker Blum
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Volker Blum heads the "Ab initio materials simulations" group at Duke University. Dr. Blum's research focuses on "first-principles" computational...
Martin A. Brooke
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Martin A. Brooke received the B.E. (Elect.) Degree (1st. Class Hons.) from Auckland University in New Zealand in 1981. He received the M.S. and Ph. D...
April S. Brown
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. April Brown received her B.S.E.E. from North Carolina State University in 1981, her M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984 and 1985,...
Kenneth R Brown
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Prof. Brown's research interest is the control of quantum systems for both understanding the natural world and developing new technologies. His...
Claude Shreve Burton
Professor of Dermatology
Chronic non-healing wounds, especially venous ulcer, diabetic ulcer wound healing Laser treatment of skin lesions
Krishnendu Chakrabarty
John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Krishnendu Chakrabarty is the John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at...
Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi
Associate Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
We are using functional genomic approaches to investigate the nutrient signaling and stress adaptations of cancer cells when exposed to various...
Ashutosh Chilkoti
Alan L. Kaganov Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti is the Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University...
Leslie M. Collins
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Leslie M. Collins earned the BSEE degree from the University of Kentucky, and the MSEE, and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor....
Steven A. Cummer
William H. Younger Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Dr. Steven Cummer received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1997 and prior to joining Duke University in 1999 he spent...
Ingrid Daubechies
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Olivier Delaire
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
The Delaire group investigates atomistic transport processes of energy and charge, and thermodynamics in energy materials. We use a combined...
Emily Rose Derbyshire
Associate Professor of Chemistry
The Derbyshire Lab uses both chemical tools and biological methods to uncover novel aspects of malaria parasite biology with the ultimate aim of...
Gayathri R. Devi
Associate Professor in Surgery
Dr. Devi’s research interests include functional genomics, anti-cancer drug discovery and development, mechanisms of cancer cell signaling,...
Mark Wesley Dewhirst
Gustavo S. Montana Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Radiation Oncology
Mark W. Dewhirst, DVM, PhD is the Gustavo S. Montana Professor of Radiation Oncology and Vice Director for Basic Science in the Duke Cancer Institute...
Al-Hafeez Z Dhalla
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
My research centers on the application of optical technologies for non-invasive, high-resolution imaging of biological tissues. In particular,...
Richard T. Di Giulio
Sally Kleberg Distinguished Professor of Environmental Toxicology
Dr. Di Giulio serves as Director of Duke University's Integrated Toxicology Program and the Superfund Basic Research Center.
Dr. Di Giulio's...
Anna Mae Diehl
Florence McAlister Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Our lab has a long standing interest in liver injury and repair. To learn more about the mechanisms that regulate this process, we study cultured...
Jessilyn Dunn
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Developing new tools and infrastructure for multi-modal biomedical data integration to drive precision/personalized methods for early detection,...
Glenn Steven Edwards
Professor of Physics
Glenn Edwards investigates biological systems using a range of experimental techniques and theoretical methods from physics. His interests include...
Harold Paul Erickson
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology
Cytoskeleton: It is now clear that the actin and microtubule cytoskeleton originated in bacteria. Our major research is on FtsZ, the bacterial...
Henry Everitt
Adjunct Professor of Physics
Dr. Everitt is one of the Army's chief scientists. He works at the Army's Aviation and Missile RD...
Richard B. Fair
Lord-Chandran Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Dr. Fair is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society. He has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on...
Sina Farsiu
Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
I am the director of the Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Laboratory. Along with my colleagues, we investigate how to improve early diagnostic...
Peter Edward Fecci
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
As the Director of both the Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program and the Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis at Duke University, I focus our...
Silvia Ferrari
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Professor Ferrari's research aims at providing intelligent control systems with a higher degree of mathematical structure to guide their application...
Gleb Finkelstein
Professor of Physics
Gleb Finkelstein is an experimental physicist interested in inorganic and biologically inspired nanostructures: carbon nanotubes, graphene, and self-...
Martin Fischer
Associate Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry
Dr. Fischer’s research focuses on exploring novel nonlinear optical contrast mechanisms for molecular imaging. Nonlinear optical microscopes can...
Bernard Martin Fischer
Associate Professor in Pediatrics
Comparative Pharmacology and Cell Biology Mechanisms of complementary-alternative medicines and products Signal Transduction and Cell Signaling...
Katherine J. Franz
Chair of the Department of Chemistry
Research in the Franz group is involved in elucidating the structural and functional consequences of metal ion coordination in biological systems. We...
Haiyan Gao
Henry W. Newson Distinguished Professor of Physics
Prof. Gao's research focuses on understanding the structure of the nucleon in terms of quark and gluon degrees of freedom of Quantum Chromodynamics (...
Mariano Agustin Garcia-Blanco
Adjunct Professor in the Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Human and viral genes are complex genetic units of information that are tightly regulated. The laboratory studies three aspects of this regulation:...
Katherine Schuver Garman
Associate Professor of Medicine
My research focuses on injury, repair, and cancer development in the gastrointestinal tract. My laboratory performs translational research with the...
Daniel J. Gauthier
Research Professor of Physics
Prof. Gauthier is interested in a broad range of topics in the fields of nonlinear and quantum optics, and nonlinear dynamical systems.
In the area...
Geoffrey Steven Ginsburg
Professor of Medicine
Dr. Geoffrey S. Ginsburg's research interests are in the development of novel paradigms for developing and translating genomic information into...
Jeffrey Glass
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jeffrey T. Glass is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a secondary appointment as a Professor in the...
Lindsey Glickfeld
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
That a picture can be worth a thousand words relies on the power of the visual system. In order to divide the labor of this task, the visual cortex...
Yiyang Gong
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
We're interested in understanding brain function using the combination of genetically encoded sensors and optical techniques. Using genetically...
Joel Alter Greenberg
Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Greenberg's research is in the area of computational imaging with a focus on physics-based modeling and system-level design from fundamental...
Sonia Grego
Associate Research Professor in theDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
I am the founding director of the Duke Smart Toilet Lab, dedicated to the opportunities that data-rich human excreta offer to improve individual and...
Russell P. Hall
J. Lamar Callaway Distinguished Professor of Dermatology, in the School of Medicine
Our laboratory is investigating the pathogenesis of autoimmune blistering skin diseases. Areas of special expertise include immune mediated skin...
Amanda Elaine Hargrove
Associate Professor of Chemistry
The Hargrove lab harnesses the unique properties of small organic molecules to study the structure, function and therapeutic potential of long...
Kris Hauser
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robot motion planning and control, semiautonomous robots, and integrating perception and planning. Applications of this research have included...
Brenton D. Hoffman
James L. and Elizabeth M. Vincent Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
The overall goal of my research program is to utilize an interdisciplinary approach to first advance the basic understanding of mechanotransduction...
Scott Thomas Hollenbeck
Associate Professor of Surgery
Breast Cancer, Adipose Biology, Lower Extremity Reconstruction
Roarke W. Horstmeyer
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Roarke Horstmeyer is an assistant professor within Duke's Biomedical Engineering Department. He develops microscopes, cameras and computer algorithms...
Nico Hotz
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Nico Hotz specializes in interfacial transport phenomena and thermodynamics in energy technology. His research focuses on heat, mass, and charge...
Heileen Hsu-Kim
Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Heileen (Helen) Hsu-Kim is an environmental engineer who specializes in environmental aquatic chemistry and geochemistry. Her research...
Tony Huang
William Bevan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Tony Jun Huang received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2005. His...
Brant Allen Inman
Cary N. Robertson, MD, Associate Professor
Clinical research interests: Clinical trials of novel diagnostic tests and therapies for genitourinary malignancies, with a strong focus on bladder...
Joseph A. Izatt
Michael J. Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
My research centers on the development and application of cutting-edge optical technologies for non-invasive, high-resolution imaging and sensing in...
G. Allan Johnson
Charles E. Putman University Distinguished Professor of Radiology
Dr. Johnson is the Charles E. Putman University Professor of Radiology, Professor of Physics, and Biomedical Engineering, and Director of the Duke...
Nan Marie Jokerst
J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Nan Marie Jokerst is the J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, and the Executive...
David F. Katz
Nello L. Teer, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Dr. Katz's research interests emphasize methods for prophylaxis against STD's, including topical microbicides, and for contraception. Core...
Christopher Ryan Kelsey
Professor of Radiation Oncology
Clinical trials that are currently enrolling patients include a study investigating lower doses of radiation therapy for patients with diffuse large...
Daniel P. Kiehart
Professor of Biology
Our intellectual focus is on identifying determinants of cell shape that function during development. Utilizing molecular genetic and reverse genetic...
Jungsang Kim
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jungsang Kim leads the Multifunctional Integrated Systems Technology group at Duke University. His main area of current research is quantum...
David Guy Kirsch
Barbara Levine University Distinguished Professor
My clinical interests are the multi-modality care of patients with bone and soft tissue sarcomas and developing new sarcoma therapies. My laboratory...
Bruce Klitzman
Associate Professor in Surgery
Our overriding interests are in the fields of tissue engineering, wound healing, biosensors, and long term improvement of medical device implantation...
REGIS Kopper
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Dr. Regis Kopper is an Adjunct Assistant Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke’s Pratt School of...
Jeffrey L. Krolik
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jeffrey Krolik is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University in Durham, NC. Canadian-born, he received his Ph.D. in...
Shivanand Lad
Professor of Neurosurgery
Dr. Nandan Lad is a neurosurgeon, scientist, and entrepreneur and an Associate Professor at Duke University Medical Center with a focus in...
Walter T Lee
Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
Global Health, Virtue-Based Professional Development and Leadership, Device Development for Cancer Detection
Kam Leong
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor Leong's research interest focuses on biomaterials design, particularly on synthesis of nanoparticles for DNA-based therapeutics, and...
Hai "Helen" Li
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
Neuromorphic computing systems Machine learning acceleration and trustworthy AIEmerging memory technologies, circuit, and...
Natalia Litchinitser
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Litchinitser holds a Ph.D. Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Her primary focus is on metamaterials that manipulate...
Dianne Little
Assistant Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery
BVSc (DVM Equivalent) University of Liverpool 1998MSpVM North Carolina State University 2003PhD (Physiology and Biotechnology) North Carolina State...
Jie Liu
George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Dr. Liu’s research interests are focusing on the chemistry and material science of nanoscale materials. Specific topics in his current research...
Qing Huo Liu
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Qing H. Liu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. His research interests...
Jianfeng Lu
Professor of Mathematics
Jianfeng Lu is an applied mathematician interested in mathematical analysis and algorithm development for problems from computational physics,...
Paolo F Maccarini
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robert A. Malkin
Professor of Practice Emeritus in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Professor Malkin is interested in medical instrumentation in the developing world.
Dr. Malkin is also the founder of Engineering World Health and...
Hisham Z. Massoud
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hisham Z. Massoud joined the Duke ECE Department in 1983, where is now a Professor. He is the founding director of the Semiconductor Research...
Maiken Mikkelsen
James N. and Elizabeth H. Barton Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
David Mitzi
Simon Family Distinguished Professor
David Mitzi received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Engineering Physics from Princeton University in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics...
Samira Musah
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
The Musah Lab is interested in understanding how molecular signals and biophysical forces can function either synergistically or independently to...
Barry S. Myers
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Myers has been a member of the Duke faculty since 1991 and has just completed a three-year role as Managing Director of Licensing and Ventures....
Miroslav Pajic
Dickinson Family Associate Professor
Miroslav Pajic's research focuses on design and analysis of cyber-physical systems with varying levels of autonomy and human interaction, at the...
Richard A. Palmer
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
Dr. Palmer's research interests span the areas of analytical, inorganic and physical chemistry. Current projects involve the use of FTIR spectroscopy...
Gregory M. Palmer
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Greg Palmer obtained his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Marquette University in 2000, after which he obtained his Ph.D. in BME from the...
Zhen-Ming Pei
Associate Professor of Biology
My laboratory is interested in the early signaling events by which plants sense environmental signals and decode to give the appropriate responses....
Niko P. Pitsianis
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Nikos Pitsianis' research experience and interests are in algorithms and architectures for high performance computing, numerical linear algebra and...
James Michael Provenzale
Professor of Radiology
I have the following major research areas:I. Diffusion tensor imaging (an MR technique that measures rate and direction of microscopic water motion)...
Nimmi Ramanujam
Robert W. Carr, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Ramanujam is the Robert W. Carr Professor of Engineering and Professor of Cancer Pharmacology and Global Health at Duke University and co-program...
Amanda Randles
Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences
My research in biomedical simulation and high-performance computing focuses on the development of new computational tools that we use to provide...
William M. Reichert
Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (pending)Director of the Duke-Makerere BME PartnershipDr....
John H. Reif
A. Hollis Edens Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Molecular assembly, DNA computing, robot motion planning, parallel algorithms, randomized algorithms, graph algorithms, algebraic computation, data...
Jennifer Lyn Roizen
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Inspired by small molecule natural products, the Roizen laboratories will initiate research to access improved antibiotics, and selective ion channel...
Michael Rubinstein
Aleksandar S. Vesic Distinguished Professor
The research of the Rubinstein group is in the field of polymer theory and computer simulations. The unique properties of polymeric systems are due...
Ehsan Samei
Professor of Radiology
Dr. Ehsan Samei, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, FSPIE, FAIMBE, FIOMP, FACR is a Persian-American medical physicist. He is a tenured Professor of...
Guillermo Sapiro
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Guillermo Sapiro received his B.Sc. (summa cum laude), M.Sc., and Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Israel...
William Seaman
Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Research Description Seaman's work often explores an expanded media-oriented poetics through various technological means — Recombinant...
Tatiana Segura
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor Tatiana Segura received her BS degree in Bioengineering from the University of California Berkeley and her doctorate in Chemical...
Allan B. Shang
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
My current research interests include the investigation into current and experimental biosensors, including the use of lasers and photonic techniques...
Ryan Shaw
Associate Professor in the School of Nursing
Prof. Shaw is faculty at the Duke University Schools of Nursing and Medicine. His research focuses on how patient generated health data...
Xiling Shen
Hawkins Family Associate Professor
Dr. Shen’s research interests lie at precision medicine and systems biology. His lab integrates engineering, computational and biological...
David R. Smith
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. David R. Smith is currently the James B. Duke Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Duke University. He is also Director...
Marc A. Sommer
W. H. Gardner, Jr. Associate Professor
We study circuits for cognition. Using a combination of neurophysiology and biomedical engineering, we focus on the interaction between brain areas...
Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor
Dr. Stiff-Roberts received both the B.S. degree in physics from Spelman College and the B.E.E. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia...
Tai-ping Sun
Professor of Biology
The diterpenoid phytohormone gibberellin (GA) plays pivotal roles in regulating growth and development throughout the life cycle of higher plants....
Steve M Taylor
Associate Professor of Medicine
My lab website has a fuller description of my research activities: https://sites.duke.edu/taylorlab/. I am principally interested in field and...
Michael J. Therien
William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Our research involves the synthesis of compounds, supramolecular assemblies, nano-scale objects, and electronic materials with unusual ground-and...
Nathan Maclyn Thielman
Professor of Medicine
Broadly, my research focuses on a range of clinical and social issues that affect persons living with or at risk for HIV infection in resource-poor...
Eric John Toone
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
Dr. Toone is a physical organic chemist who studies relationships between structure and activity in the context of biology. Currently active programs...
Cynthia Ann Toth
Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology
RESEARCH INTERESTS Dr. Toth specializes in the evaluation and surgical treatment of vitreoretinal diseases in infants, children and adults, and in...
George A. Truskey
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
My research interests focus upon the effect of physical forces on the function of vascular cells and skeletal muscle, cell adhesion, and the design...
Ganesan Vaidyanathan
Professor in Radiology
Dr. Vaidyanathan is a professor in the Department of Radiology. He is a member of the Nuclear Medicine track of the Medical Physics Graduate...
Hans J. Van Miegroet
Professor of Art and Art History
Hans J. Van Miegroet was trained at the Higher Institute for Art History and Archaeology of the University of Ghent (Belgium) and received his Ph.D....
Shyni Varghese
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Shyni Varghese has a triple appointment in the Duke departments of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and...
Stephanos Venakides
Professor of Mathematics
Fields of work: Pure and applied mathematics, physics and biology. Specific areas: Differential equations, integrable systems, acoustic and...
Tuan Vo-Dinh
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh is R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, and Director of The...
Qiu Wang
Robert R. & Katherine B. Penn Associate Professor
Research in the Wang group aims to answer fundamental questions that lie at the interface of chemistry and biology. In particular, we are interested...
Warren S. Warren
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Our work focuses on the design and application of what might best be called novel pulsed techniques, using controlled radiation fields to alter...
Adam P. Wax
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Wax's research interests include optical spectroscopy for early cancer detection, novel microscopy and
interferometry techniques.
The study of...
Heather Elizabeth Whitson
Professor of Medicine
Dr. Whitson's research is focused on improving care options and resilience for people with multiple chronic conditions. In particular, she has...
Benjamin J. Wiley
Professor of Chemistry
In the Wiley Group, we make new nanomaterials by controlling the assembly of atoms in solution, and explore applications for nanomaterials in...
Christopher Wildrick Woods
Professor of Medicine
1. Emerging Infections 2. Global Health 3. Epidemiology of infectious diseases 4. Clinical microbiology and diagnostics 5. Bioterrorism...
Ying Wu
Professor of Physics
Prof. Wu is interested in nonlinear dynamics of charged particle beams, coherent radiation sources, and the development of novel accelerators and...
Weitao Yang
Philip Handler Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Prof. Yang, the Philip Handler Professor of Chemistry, is developing methods for quantum mechanical calculations of large systems and carrying out...
Junjie Yao
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Our mission at PI-Lab is to develop state-of-the-art photoacoustic tomography (PAT) technologies and translate PAT advances into diagnostic and...
Benjamin Yellen
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Yellen's group is interested in developing highly parallel mechanisms for controlling the transport and assembly of ensembles of objects ranging from...
Terry Takatoshi Yoshizumi
Professor of Radiology
Major research focus relates to the following areas: New radiation detector development and evaluation; 2-D radiochromic film dosimetry in CT;...
Lingchong You
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
The You lab uses a combination of mathematical modeling, machine learning, and quantitative experiments to elucidate principles underlying the...
Fan Yuan
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Yuan's research interests include drug and gene delivery, mechanisms of molecular transport in cells and tissues, and tumor pathophysiology....
Aimee Kirsch Zaas
Professor of Medicine
Medical education Genomic applications for diagnosis of infectious diseases Genomic applications for prediction of infectious diseases
Michael Rod Zalutsky
Jonathan Spicehandler, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Neuro Oncology, in the School of Medicine
The overall objective of our laboratory is the development of novel radioactive compounds for improving the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. This...
