Women's Health
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Research Areas
Computational mechanobiology Soft tissue mechanics Data-driven solid mechanics Breast cancer biomechanics Machine learning methods in computational mechanics Uncertainty quantification methods in computational mechanics Reconstructive surgery Skin
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Research Areas
Building Design and Energy Conservation Human-Centered Design Human-Centered Robotics Real Estate Technology Urban Logistics Design for Behavior Change
Professional Experience
Professor of Practice, Columbia University, 2019 – present Principal, Invisible Design, 2019 – present CEO, frog, 2015-2018 Senior Partner, Prophet, 2013 – 2015 CEO Continuum, 2009 – 2013 VP of Strategy, Continuum, 1994 – 2009 Associate Professor, MIT, 1992 – 1994 Assistant Professor, MIT, 1986 - 1992
Education
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, MIT SM, Technology and Policy, MIT BA, Engineering, Cambridge University
Honors and Awards
IDSA Design of the Decade - Silver, 2010 IDSA Research - Gold, 2005 2003 IDSA Design Explorations - Bronze IDSA Consumer Products - Gold, 2002 ID Magazine Annual Design Review – Design Distinction, 2002 IDSA Design Explorations - Bronze, 2001 IDSA Transportation - Bronze, 2001 Museum of Modern Art, New York, Permanent Collection, 1997
Research Areas Mechanobiology Biomechanics Biomedical Imaging Cell and Tissue Biomechanics Personalized Medicine and Patient-Specific Modeling Women’s Health Technology (Maternal Health Technology)
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Professional Experience
Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2017-2023 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanics, Peking University Beijing, P. R. China, 1984-1988 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The City College of the City University of New York, 1988-1989 Graduate Research Assistant, Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Harvard University Medical School, 1990-1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, University of Michigan, 1993-1996 Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 1996-1998 Chair, Graduate Committee, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 1997-1999 Chair, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 1999-2003 Chair, ABET Committee, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2004-2006 Associate Professor of Dental and Craniofacial Bioengineering (in Dentistry), College of Dental Medicine, Columbia University, 2004-2007 Chair, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Biomedical Engineering, 2009-2014 Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2017-2023
Professional Affiliations
Member, American Society for Mechanical Engineers Member, American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Member, Orthopaedic Research Society Member, Biomedical Engineering Society
Honors & Awards
Class Award from the First National Youth Biomedical Engineering Conference of P. R. China., 1985 Graduate Fellowship, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 1989 HST Graduate Fellowship, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, 1990 The New Investigator Recognition Award, Orthopaedic Research Society, 1992 Postdoctoral Trainee of National Institute on Aging, 1994 National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health, 1995 Marine Biological Laboratory Summer Course Fellowship, Marine Biological Laboratory, 1997 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1999 Funds for Talented Professionals (Joint Research Fund for Overseas Chinese Young Scholars), National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2006 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2006 1000Plan Professorship, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, 2014 Fellow, International Combined Orthopaedic Research Societies, 2016 Fellow, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2018 Fellow, American Society for Mechanical Engineers, 2018
Research Areas Photonics Bioelectronics Biomedical Imaging Biomedical Optics Image Processing Women's Health Cardiovascular Imaging Cardiac Electrophysiology
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Professional Affiliations
National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Optica (OSA)
Honors & Awards
Columbia University Provost Teaching Scholar, 2022-2023 Columbia University Provost Service Award, 2022 SPIE Fellow, 2021 Optica Fellow, 2021 Election to the College of Fellows for American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2020 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2017 Rodriguez Family Junior Faculty Development Award, Columbia University SEAS, 2015 NSF CAREER Award, 2015 NIH DP2 New Innovators, 2014 MIT Technology Review: 35 Innovators under 35, 2013 Forbes 30 under 30 for Science and Healthcare, 2012
Professional Experience
Vice Dean of Engagement, Columbia Engineering, July 2023 - present Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, January 2018 - present Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, September 2012 – December 2017
Education
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University MS, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Areas Bioinformatics Genomics and Computational Modeling Personalized Medicine and Patient-specific Modeling Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology
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Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2021-
Professional Affiliations
Associate Member, Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, 2021- Member, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, 2021-
Honors & Awards
Allen Institute Distinguished Investigator Award, 2023 NSF CAREER Award, 2022 NIH NHGRI Genomic Innovator Award, 2021 NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, 2012
Education
PhD, Biology, MIT BS, Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Research Areas Bioinformatics Cell & Tissue Engineering Genomics and Computational Modeling Personalized Medicine and Patient-specific Modeling Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology Computational Biology Artificial Intelligence Causal Inference Biology
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Professional Affiliations
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2017- International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) 2020
Honors & Awards
Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, 2025. Early-Career Innovator in Science Award in Cancer Immunology, Takeda and the New York Academy of Sciences, 2024. Allen Distinguished Investigator Award, Allen Institute, 2023. NHGRI Award for Supporting Talented Early Career Researchers in Genomics (R01), 2023. CZI Science Leadership Award, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2022. NSF CAREER Award, 2022. Columbia Research Initiatives in Science & Engineering (RISE) Award, 2021. Tri-Institutional Breakout Prize for Junior Investigators, Weill Cornell Medicine, Rockefeller University, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 2019. NIH NCI Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00), 2018. American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2017. IBM Best Student Paper Award, New England Statistics Symposium (NESS), 2014. TEDMED Front Line Scholarship, 2014.
Professional Experience
Herbert & Florence Irving Associate Professor of Cancer Data Research, Columbia University, 2025 - present Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2025 - present Affiliated Faculty, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2020 - present Affiliated Member, Data Science Institute, Columbia University, 2020 - present Member, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, 2020 - present Herbert & Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research (in the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics), Columbia University, 2020 - 2024 Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2020 - 2024 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mentor: Dr. Dana Pe’er, 2016 - 2019 Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, Dr. Dana Pe’er (moved to MSK), 2014 - 2016 Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, Dr. Bill Bolosky. Summer 2014 Visiting Researcher, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Dr. Edoardo Airoldi, 2013-2014 Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, Dr. James Galagan. 2010-2014
Education
PhD, Bioinformatics, Boston University MS, Electrical Engineering, Boston University BS, Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Research Areas Women's Health Maternal Health Materials Science and Engineering Mechanics Biological Modeling Biomechanics Human-Centered Design Mechanobiology
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Professional Experience
Associate professor of mechanical engineering, Columbia University, 2015– Assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Columbia University, 2010–2015
Professional Affiliations
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Society of Reproductive Investigators
Honors & Awards
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House, 2019 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Y.C. Fung Young Investigators Award, 2017 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, 2015
Education
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institue of Technology MS, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institue of Technology BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Research Areas Biological and Life Science Engineering Synthetic Biology Stem Cell Engineering Biophysics
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Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2020- Appointment in Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical School, 2020- Member, Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, 2020- Affiliate Member, Zuckerman Institute, 2022-
Honors & Awards
NYSCF Robertson Stem Cell Investigator, 2023 Allen Distinguished Investigator, 2023 Schaefer Research Scholar, 2023 Pew Biomedical Scholar, 2023 NIH Director's New Innovator, 2021 Science/AAAS and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists in Cell and Molecular Biology, 2017 Chancellor’s Thesis Prize, the Sorbonne Universities, 2016 Thesis prize from the French Nanoscience Society Nano-K, 2016 Yang Cao-Lan-Xian Best Thesis Award in Physical Chemistry, University of Chicago, 2015 Albert J. Cross Prize for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Departmental Citizenship, University of Chicago, 2014 Peter Kollman Award in High Performance Computing, American Chemical Society, 2012 Physical Sciences Division Teaching Prize, University of Chicago, 2012 Bronze Medal at the 37th International Chemistry Olympiad in Taipei, Taiwan, 2005
Education
PhD, Physics, University of Paris 7 PhD, Chemistry, The University of Chicago BS, Chemistry, University of Zagreb
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Research Areas
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Artificial Intelligence Biomedical Informatics
Professional Experience
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2020-present Lecturer in the Discipline of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2015-2019 Associate Research Scientist, Center for Computational Learning Systems (CCLS) Columbia University, 2006-2015 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, 2014-2015 Adjunct Assistant Professor and Researcher, Computer Science Department and Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale d’Orléans (LIFO), University of Orléans, 2002-2004 Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department and Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale d’Orléans (LIFO), University of Orléans, 1999-2002
Education
PhD, Computer Science and AI, University of Orléans, France Research Masters (DEA), Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Orléans, France Engineer degree in Computer Science, USTHB Algiers, Algeria
Research Areas Interface Tissue Engineering and Engineering Complex Tissues Multi-Functional and Inductive Biomaterial Design for Guiding Stem Cell Differentiation Biomimetic Models to Elucidate Cell-Material Interactions Mechanism of Biomineralization Orthopaedic and Dental Biomaterials
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Professional Affiliations
Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) Society for Biomaterials (SFB) Tissue Engineering International and Regenerative Medicine Society (TERMIS) Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Honors & Awards
Fellow, Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE) Provost Leadership Fellow Janette and Armen Avanessians Diversity Award Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Faculty Career Award in Translational Research Faculty Research Fellowship (Provost diversity initiatives), Columbia University
Professional Experience
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2020- Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2014- Director, Biomaterials and Interface Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Columbia University, 2001- SEAS Chair of Tenure & Promotions, Columbia University, 2020- Chair of Graduate Studies, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2010-15 Member, FF-SEAS Executive Committee, Columbia University, 2014–2015 Assistant Professor of Dental and Craniofacial Bioengineering, Columbia University, 2014–2015 Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2007–2013 Associate Professor of Dental and Craniofacial Bioengineering, Columbia University, 2007–2013 Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2001–2006
Research Areas Mechanobiology Biomaterials Cell & Tissue Engineering Genomics and Computational Modeling Medical Devices and Systems Cell and Tissue Biomechanics Personalized Medicine and Patient-Specific Modeling Immunoengineering
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Professional Experience
Undergraduate Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2020 - present Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine), Columbia University, 2019 - present Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2018 - present Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2012 - 2018 Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2003 - 2012
Professional Affiliations
Biomedical Engineering Society Society for Biomaterials American Society for Cell Biology
Honors & Awards
AIMBE Fellow, 2023 BMES-SPRBM, Rising Star, 2011
Education
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa BS, Physics, Washington University in St. Louis BS, Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Research Areas Analog Devices Communications Electromagnetics Embedded Systems Integrated Circuits and Systems Memory and Storage Nanoelectronics Photonics Bioelectronics Sensor Systems Wearable Electronics (Technology) Robotics and Automation Displays
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Professional Experience
Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University 2020-present Professor of Electrical engineering, Columbia University 2018-2020 Associate Professor of Electrical engineering, Columbia University, 2011-2018 Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2006–2011
Professional Affiliations
IEEE Society for Information Display (SID) SPIE Materials Research Society (MRS) Optica
Honors & Awards
Architizer A+ Award Verizon Powerful Answers Popular Science, Invention of the Year Interdigital Innovation Challenge MIT/USDOE Clean Energy Prize Ocean Optics Blue Ocean Award Kim Award for Undergraduate Involvement Vodaphone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Award NSF CAREER award IVMC Shoulders Gray Spindt award IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport Award Fellow, Optica Fellow, SID Fellow, IEEE
Education
PhD, Electrical Engineering, MIT MEng, Electrical Engineering, MIT SB, Electrical Engineering, MIT