Colloquium Series | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Colloquium Series

 

 


General Scientific items on hexagon tiles

Spring 2025

Shuo Chen, PhD

Research Scientist (tenure-track)

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry,

New York University Grossman School of Medicine

"Elucidating and Rescuing Memory".

January 21, 2025


Azaden Hosseini, PhD

Venture Associate

NYU Entrepreneurial Institute

"Resources and Opportunities at the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute".

January 28, 2025


John Fisher, PhD

Professor & Department Chair

Fischell Department of Bioengineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland

"3D Printing of Complex Engineered Tissues and their Clinical Applications"

February 4, 2025


Yao Wang, PhD

Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor

New York University Tandon School of Engineering

"Reconstructing Human Speech from Recorded Brain Activity Using Deep Learning"

February 11, 2025


Nisha Maheshwari

PhD Candidate

New York University Tandon School of Engineering

"Monitoring and Assessment of Vascular Diseases with Dynamic Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging"

April 1, 2025


Jeffrey Hubbell, PhD

Vice President of Strategy for Bioengineering

New York University Tandon School of Engineering

"Molecular Engineering for Tipping Immunity between Aggression and Tolerance"

April 15, 2025


Charles Marmar, PhD

Peter H. Schub Professor and Chair, Dept. of Psychiatry

New York University Grossman School of Medicine

"Precision Psychiatry for PTSD and Alcohol Use Disorder: From Biomarkers to Resilience"

April 22, 2025


Elizabeth Henaff, PhD

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Technology, Culture and Society, Center of Urban Science and Progress (CUSP)

New York University Tandon School of Engineering

"Microbial Metrics: Design for the Multispecies City"

April 29, 2025


Darren Roblyer, PhD

Professor, Graduate Chair

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

"From Speckles to Spectra: Using optical contrast to reveal label-free biomarkers of disease"

May 6, 2025


 


Fall 2024

Piul S. Rabbani, PhD

Assistant Professor

Hansjorg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Virtuous or Vicious: Extracellular Vesicles in Skin".

September 10, 2024




Jelle Veraart, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Radiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Ultra-Low Field MRI: An Accessible Neuroimaging Technology"

September 17, 2024




Congwu Du, PhD

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Stony Brook University

"Optical Imaging of Cocaine-Induced Brain Dysfunction"

September 24, 2024




Edward Fisher, MD, MPH, PhD

Professor

Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"The regression of atherosclerosis: Insights from novel mouse models and theranostic nanoparticles"

October 1, 2024




Shelly Peyton, PhD

Chair/Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Tufts University

"Bioengineered Models of Breast Cancer Dormancy"

October 8, 2024


Hrishikesh Deo

Founder and CEO

Department of Biomedical Engineering


Ergami Endoscopy

"Robotic colonoscope insertion device to improve procedure productivity and reduce physician injuries"

October 22, 2024


Bruno Siciliano

Professor

Robotics & Control

University of Naples Federico

A Revolutionary Theranostics Approach for Robotized Colonoscopy

Thursday, October 24


Amparo Ruiz, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Radiology,
 Tech4Health Institute,

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Imaging Innovation: Fighting Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis"

November 5, 2024


S. Thai Thayumanavan

Department Head/Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Center for Bioactive Delivery

University of Massachusetts Amherst

"Designer Biomaterials for Biologics Delivery"

November 12, 2024




Lori Setton, PhD

Chair/Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Washington University at St. Louis

"Pathways to Understand Drug Delivery in the Treatment of Arthritis"

November 19, 2024


Aristotelis Tsirigos, PhD

Professor

Department of Medicine and Pathology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Self-Supervised AI: A New Era in Biomedical Image Analysis"

November 26, 2024


Cristina Savin PhD

Associate Professor of Neural Science and Data Science

Center for Neural Science

NYU School of Arts & Science

"Representing Beliefs in a Changing World"

December 3, 2024


 


Spring 2024

Yi Ye, PhD, MS, MBA 

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery &Pathobiology Medicine

NYU College of Dentristy

"Perineural Invasion and Oral Cancer"

March 5, 2024


Dmitry Rinberg, PhD

Professor

Dept. of Neuroscience and Physiology and Neuroscience Institute

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Cracking the Olfactory Code: Basic Principles, Technology, and Practical Applications"

March 12, 2024


Lior Jankelson, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Director

Dept. of Medicine

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Computational Applications for Clinical Cardiology"

March 26, 2024


Edwin Rosado-Olivieri, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Molecular Pathobiology


Division of Biomaterials and Regenerative Biology

NYU College of Dentistry

"Reconstitution of human organogenesis on microchips"

April 2, 2024


Jun Wang, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Pathobiology


Perlmutter Cancer Center

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Targeting Novel Immune Feedback Modulators for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Beyond"

April 9, 2024


Marcus Noyes, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology


Institute for Systems Genetics

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Reprogramming Transcription Factors with a Universal Zinc Finger Model"

April 16, 2024


Steven Baete, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Radiology


Institute for Systems Genetics

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Diffusion MRI Nerve-Tract Visualization with Radial DSI and ODF-Fingerprinting"

April 23, 2024


Kenneth Barber, PhD

Professor, Senior Associate Dean of Research

School of Biomedical Engineerning, Science and Health Systems

Drexel University

"Cell-Scale Mechanics and Transport in Endothelial Nitric Oxide Signaling"

April 30, 2024


Fall 2023

Dmitri Chklovskii, PhD

Research Associate Professor

Dept. of Neuroscience & Physiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Reverse engineering the brain: from the connectome to computation"

September 7, 2023


Teresa Davoli, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Institue for Systems Genetics

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"KaryoCreate: A new tool to engineer chromosome-specific gains and losses in human cells for cancer and beyond"

September 14, 2023


Grace Kim

Associate Professor

Dept. of Occupational Therapy

NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

"Application of technology to maximize recovery after stroke from the clinic to the home environment"

September 21, 2023


Mark Yarmarkovich, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Pathology, Perlmutter Cancer Center

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Personalized immunotherapies (CAR T cells, TCRs and BiTEs) for all cancer patients"

September 28, 2023


Shuyan Du

Executive Director

Imaging Division - Translational Sciences and Diagnostics


Bristol-Myers Squibb

"Advances in Disease Biomarker Imaging"

October 5, 2023


Kellie Owens

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Population Health

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Too Much of a Good Thing?: How Clinicians Assess the Value of Health Data"

October 12, 2023


Daya Lin, PhD

Professor

Dept. of Neuroscience, Physiology & Psychiatry

NYU Grossman School of Medicine Neuroscience Institute

"The Neural Mechanisms of Social Behaviors"

October 19, 2023


Lee Makowski, PhD

Professor and Chair

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Northeastern University

"Unravelling the Molecular Events in the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease."

November 2, 2023


Jennifer J. Kang-Mieler, PhD

Professor and Chair

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Stevens Institute of Technology

"Advances in ocular imaging and drug-delivery systems."

November 9, 2023


Vicki Colvin, PhD

Vernon K. Krieble Professor, Director

Dept. of Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Biomedical Engineering

Brown University

"Synthesis and Characterization of Nanomaterials"

November 16, 2023


Adam Buchwald, PhD

Professor and Director

Dept. of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Center of Health and Rehabilitation Research.

NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

"Advancing stroke neuro-recovery with novel treatment approaches"

November 30, 2023


 

Stephen D. Ginsberg, PhD

Associate Professor

Dept. of Psychiatry and Neuroscience & Physiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Trials and tribulations of single population transcriptomic analyses in Alzheimer’s disease and animal models of neurodegeneration"

December 7, 2023


Michael King, PhD

Professor and Chair

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Vanderbilt University

"Mechanobiology of metastatic cancer: Therapeutic strategies and high-throughput models"

December 14, 2023

 


Spring 2023

 

Biyu Jade He, PhD

Assistant Professor & Irma T. Hirschl Career Scientist

Depts. of Neurology, Neuroscience & Physiology, and Radiology

Neuroscience Institute, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Predictive Mechanisms in Neural Perception"

January 24, 2023


Maurizio Porfiri, PhD

Institute Professor & Director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress

Depts. of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Civil Engineering

NYU Tandon

"Engineering the firearm ecosystem: Research on media coverage and firearm acquisition in the aftermath of a mass shooting"

January 31, 2023


Leeor Alan, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Radiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Dielectrography: Prospects for Imaging the Brain using Ultra-Wide-Band Microwaves"

February 7, 2023


Delaram Kahrobaei, PhD

Professor

Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science

The City University of New York (CUNY)

"Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition on Encrypted Medical and Bioinformatics Data"

February 14, 2023


Davood Shahrjerdi, PhD

Associate Professor

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Member, NYU Wireless Research Center


NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Charge-based electronics for spatial imaging of biomedical environments"

February 21, 2023


Katharina Schultebraucks, PhD

Associate Professor

Depts. of Psychiatry and Population Health

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Advances in Machine Learning for Predicting and Monitoring Stress and Resilence"

February 28, 2023


Kelly Ruggles, PhD

Associate Professor

Division of Precision Medicine, Institute for Systems Genetics

Director, Academic Programs, Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Informing Mechanisms of Human Disease using Computational Multiomics"

March 7, 2023


Metin Akay, PhD

Professor and Chair

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

University of Houston

"Neurotechnology for Accessing Nicotine Addiction in the Brain"

March 21, 2023


Dora Angelaki, PhD

Professor

Center for Neural Science and Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

New York University

"Neural Circuitry and Models of Navigation"

March 28,2023


Gilad Evrony, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Depts. of Pediatrics and Neuroscience & Physiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Quantification of mutation rates in pediatric brain cancer by ultra-high-fidelity sequencing"

April 4, 2023


Kristi Kiick, PhD

Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor and Chair

Depts. of Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering

University of Delaware

"Controlling Phase Separation in Elastomeric (Poly) Peptides in the Production of Micro- and Nano-Structured Materials"

April 11, 2023


David M. Pierce, PhD

Professor and Chair

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

University of Connecticut

"Virtual Cartilage: Toward Translational Applications"

April 18, 2023


Elisa Riedo, PhD

Professor, Depts. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Physics

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Nanotechnology Based Biosensors and Wearable Devices for Medical Applications"

April 25, 2023


Kristen Billiar, PhD

Professor and Chair

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

"Heart Valve Mechanobiology: Implications for HV Disease and Treatment"

May 2, 2023


Fall 2022

 

Jonas Schluter, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology

Inst. For Computational Medicine
, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Rational Microbiome Engineering

September 6, 2022


Sanjairaj Vijayavenkataraman, PhD

Global Network Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

NYU Abu Dhabi

"3D (Bio)Printing: The Art of Engineering Tissues

September 13, 2022


Lingyan Shi, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

UC San Diego

"Multimodal Super Resolution Metabolic Imaging in Aging and Diseases

September 20, 2022


Michael Miller, PhD

Department Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering

John Hopkins University

"Molecular Computational Anatomy: From Euler to Dirac

September 27, 2022


Kaiming Ye, PhD

Department Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering

University of Binghampton

"Regenerating human islets from iPSCs

October 4, 2022


Rumi Chunara, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

NYU Tandon


Department of Biostatistics - NYU School of Global Public Health

"Algorithmic Fairness and Transfer Learning in Healthcare Data"

October 18, 2022


Kiana Aran, PhD

Associate Professor

Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA

"The Promise of Graphene-Based Transistors for Democratizing Multiomics Studies"

October 25, 2022


Anand Ramamurthi, PhD

Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

Restoring Elastic Matrix: The Missing Link in Tissue Repair

November 1, 2022


Irene de Lazaro del Rey, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"In-Vivo Cell Reprogramming and Regeneration for Tissue Repair"

November 8, 2022


Mirella Altoe, PhD

Research Fellow, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

"Imaging and Genomic Biomarkers for Cancer Therapy Monitoring"

November 15, 2022


Abdelmadjid Hihi, PhD

Deputy Director, Division of Biomedical Engineering

Clinatec Biomedical Research Center, Grenoble, France

"Innovative Neurotechnologies: A journey from the Lab to the Clinic"

November 22, 2022


Azhar Zam, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering

NYU Abu Dhabi

"Light-based Smart Technology for Diagnostic and Treatment Monitoring"

November 29, 2022


Michael N. Wosczyna, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Resident Mesenchymal Stem Cells as Master Regulators of Skeletal Muscle Maintenance and Regeneration"

December 6, 2022


Craig Wilson, PhD

Director, Future Labs

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Future Labs and Entrepreneurship at NYU Tandon"

December 13, 2022


Spring 2022

Farah E. Shamout, PhD
Assistant Professor & Emerging Scholar of Computer Engineering
NYU Abu Dhabi

"Towards Improved Health via Computational Precision Medicine: Learning from Heterogeneous COVID Data"

January 25, 2022


Rose Faghih, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Smartwatch-Brain Interface Architectures"

February 15, 2022


David Fenyö, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Cancer Proteogenomics"

February 22, 2022


Jose Maria M. Raya Garcia del Olmo, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"New imaging insights into osteoarthritis disease"

March 1, 2022


Jing Wang, MD/PhD
Associate Professor, Director, Interdisciplinary Pain Research Program
Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research, Departments of Anesthesiology

Perioperative Care & Pain Medicine and Neuroscience and Physiology

"Understanding and Controlling Pain"

March 8, 2022


Vadim Gordin, J.D.
Director of NYU Tandon A/X Venture
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Venture Risk Analysis: Understanding your project's failure points and how to avoid them"

March 22, 2022


Eli Rothenberg, PhD
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Tailored Single-Molecule Biophotonics Approaches for Targeted Development of Cancer Therapeutics and Treatment of Pain"

March 29, 2022


Jiangyang Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Ultrafast MRI Diffusion Tensor Imaging for High Resolution Brain Mapping

April 5, 2022


Ken-ichiro Kamei, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Institute for Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS)
Institute for Advanced Science (KUIAS), Kyoto University

Reverse Bioengineering to Recapitulate Tissue Development for Biomedical Applications

April 12, 2022


Han-Tieng Wu, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Depts. of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences
Duke University

"Modern signal processing tools for nonstationary biomedical signals in a decentralized world"

April 19, 2022


Yi-Xian Qin, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Stony Brook University

Quantitative ultrasound for musculoskeletal tissue imaging characteristics and therapeutic regeneration

April 26, 2022


Bryan Pfister, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
New Jersey Institute for Technology

The Biomechanics of Traumatic Brain Injuries: Towards Better Prevention and Treatment

May 3, 2022 


Fall 2021

 


Mirella L. Altoé, PhD

Adjunct Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Diffuse Optical Tomographic (DOT) Imaging for Diagnosis and Therapy-Monitoring of Breast Cancer"

September 7, 2021


Jin Montclare, PhD

Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Intelligent Protein Biomaterials for Medicine"

September 14, 2021


Nathalie Pinkerton, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Developing Responsive Soft Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications"

September 21, 2021


Els Fieremans, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Radiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Probing Brain Microstructure and Pathology with Diffusion MRI"

September 28, 2021


Riccardo Lattanzi, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Radiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Cartilage Assessment"

October 5, 2021


S. Farokh Atashzar

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Tandon School of Engineering

"Intelligent Human-Robot Fusion: The Horizon of Assistive Robotics"

October 19, 2021


David Truong, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Genome Writing of Human iPSCs for Off-the-Shelf Cell Therapies"

October 26, 2021


Frank Rimalovski, Dee N. Dao

Executive Director

Entrepreneurial Institute

New York University

"Entrepreneurship at New York University"

November 2, 2021


Zhe S. Chen, PhD

Associate Professor

Depts. of Psychiatry and Neuroscience & Physiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Scaling up knowledge discovery in systems neuroscience: a closed-loop brain-machine-interface (BMI) solution"

November 16, 2021


Juergen Hahn, PhD

Professor & Chair

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"Development of a Diagnostic Test for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Data Science Meets Metabolomics"

November 23, 2021


Mitchell B. Schaffler, PhD

Professor & Chair

Department of Biomedical Engineering

City College of New York (CCNY)

"Skeletal Tissues Regeneration and Engineering"

November 30, 2021


Krista Durney

Senior Research Scientist

TARA Biosystems

"Predictive Tissue Models for Faster and Safer Cardiac Drug Discovery"

December 7, 2021


Michael A. Long, PhD

Depts. of Neuroscience & Physiology and Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery

Neuroscience Institute

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"Comparative neurobiology of vocal communication"

December 14, 2021


Spring 2021

 


Osamah J. Choudhry, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dept. of Neurosurgery

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

CEO, Medivis

"Computer-assisted surgery with augmented reality and robotics in surgical navigation"

March 2, 2021


Adeen Flinker, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Neurology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

“Intracranial signatures of language perception and production

March 9, 2021


Vivek J. Srinivasan, PhD

Depts. of Ophthalmology and Radiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine




"Human Brain Interferometers for Better Blood Flow"

March 16, 2021


Liam J. Holt, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Institute for Systems Genetics

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

“Crushing cells: How does crowding and compression affect biology?"

March 23, 2021


Adler Perotte, MD, MA

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Bioinformatics

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

"Bayesian inference and prediction based on electronic health record data and metabolomics"

March 30, 2021


Neha P. Kamat, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Center for Synthetic Biology

Chemistry of Life Processes Institute

Northwestern University

"Harnessing Bilayer Membranes and Cell-Free Systems to Investigate Control Biological Processes"

April 6, 2021


Kiana Aran, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer at Cardea Bio

Assistant Professor of Medical Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont Colleges, CA

"The story behind CRISPR-chip, the first CRISPR-powered Transistor: From research bench to commercialization"

April 13, 2021


Haogang Cai, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Radiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Tech4Health


"Nanoengineered biomaterials and optical meta-surfaces for biomedical research"

April 20, 2021


Elham Azizi, PhD

Herbert & Florence Irving Assistant

Professor of Cancer Data Research

Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering




"Machine Learning for Modeling the Dynamics of the Tumor Microenvironment"

April 27, 2021


Andrea Nye

President & CEO at Xylyx Bio, Inc

Navigating the Ups and Downs and Sideways of a University Start-up Company"



May 4, 2021


Fall 2020


Andreas H. Hielscher, PhD

Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

“Introduction to Colloquium: The Clinical Biophotonics Laboratory at NYU"

September 4, 2020


Dikoma C Shungu, PhD

Professor of Physics in Radiology, Director of the Laboratory for Advanced MRS Research

Weill Cornell Medicine

“Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging in Clinical Applications and Neuroscience Research.”

September 11, 2020

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Molly Flexman, PhD

Department Head of Precision Diagnosis and Image Guided Therapy

Philips - USA

Augmented Reality in Clinical Practice

September 18, 2020


Khalil Ramadi, PhD

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

NYU Abu Dhabi

Minimally invasive technologies for neuromodulation in treatment of neurologic, metabolic, and immune disorders"

September 25, 2020


Mohammad Qasaimeh, PhD

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering

NYU Abu Dhabi

"Advanced Microfluidics and Microdevices for Biomedical Applications and Point-of Care Diagnostics

October 2, 2020


Hyun K. Kim, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology

Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Columbia University / NYU - Tandon

Modeling of Light Propagation and Image Formation in Human Tissue: From Breast Cancer Detection to Reading the Human Mind.”

October 9, 2020


Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD

Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology

Professor, Department of Medicine & Institute for Systems Genetic

Director, Center for Human Genetics and Genomics

NYU Grossman School of Medicine




"Epigenomic Maps of the human heart"

October 16, 2020


Kevin C. Chan, PhD

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Structural, Metabolic and Functional Brain Imaging for Disease Detection and Therapeutic Monitoring in Glaucoma"

October 23, 2020


Mini Das, PhD

Associate Professor of Physics & Biomedical Engineering

University of Houston

"New Frontiers in Spectral X-Ray Imaging and Computed Tomography"

October 30, 2020


Katsuo Kurabayashi, PhD

Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

University of Michigan

"Advanced Blood Biomarker Analysis for Systemic Inflammatory Disorders."

November 6, 2020


Qi Wang, PhD

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Columbia University

"New technologies for restoring and enhancing sensory functions and cognition through brain-machine interfaces (BMI)"

November 13, 2020


Youssef Wadghiri, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

"At the Crossroads: Engineering strategies for in vivo preclinical imaging at NYU"

November 20, 2020


Philip Leucht, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Cell Biology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine




"Stem cell-based tissue engineering strategies to enhance bone regeneration"

December 4, 2020


Steven Kuyan, PhD

Director, Entrepreneurship, Managing, Director, Future Labs

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Entrepreneurship and Public-Private Partnerships at NYU



December 11, 2020