Neonatal hypoxia; neurodegeneration

Biomaterials, biomechanics, biochemical engineering

Human-centered design, human-computer interaction, human factors, human performance modeling , judgment and decision making, medical informatics, systems engineering

electro optics, medical device development, opthalmic digital photography, entrepreneurship

Spinal Cord Injury, Astrocytes, Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis, Neuroinflammation, Traumatic Brain Injury, Neuroimmunology, Acquired Brain Injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neuroprotection, Neurological Diseases, Immunohistochemistry, Neuroimmunomodulation, Neurobiology, Glioma, Neuron-Glia Interaction, Cognitive Rehabilitation, Cellular Neuroscience, Brain Diseases, EAE, CNS Demyelinating Autoimmune Diseases, Demyelinating Diseases, Molecular Neuroscience, Neuron Culture, Molecular Neurobiology, Neurogenesis, Nervous System Autoimmune Diseases, Neurobiochemistry

Diagnostics, nanotechnology, molecular genetics

Self-organization, biomedical image informatics, geometric modeling, computer-aided design and visualization

Algorithms, Brain, Brain Diseases, Brain Mapping, Case-Control Studies, Classical Conditioning, Computer-Assisted Diagnosis, Electromyography, Evoked Potentials, Face, Hemoglobins, Opioid-Related Disorders, Oxygen Pattern Recognition, Automated Personality Disorders, Problem Solving, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted Spectrophotometry, Infrared Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared Sublimation Unconscious (Psychology), Vocational Guidance

Aptamers, riboswitches, allosteric ribozymes

Neuro-trauma in athletics, Technology innovation and commercialization

DNA, Gene Expression, RNA, DNA Sequencing, Genomics, Genetics, Sequencing, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Gene Regulation, Next Generation Sequencing

Software defined/cognitive radio prototyping; reconfigurable, metamaterial, and non-traditional material antennas for wireless systems; smart textiles for biomedical monitoring applications; smart antenna/MIMO systems for wireless communications; sensor networks for air quality and homeland security; free space optical and ultrasonic communication; wireless physical layer security; service learning and cybersecurity education

Contrast enhanced ultrasound imaging and applications, Signal and image algorithms and processing, Applied medical physics research including radiation dose and image quality evaluation, and radiation dose indices, DICOM metadata mining and informatics

Hierarchy and Risk-Taking in the Cockpit, Human-Robotic Performance, Neuroergonomics for Aviation, Functional Neuroimaging, fNIRS, Cognitive Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science and Artificial Thinking, Eye Tracking, Prefrontal Cortex, Cognition, Air Traffic Control

Microscopy and Imaging, Automation and custom scanning microscopy, 3-D printing and model design, Blender3D, SolidWorks, Cinema4D, Finite Element Analysis, Advanced multi-domain mesh generation, Matlab, Python, and C#, automation of complex organic shape meshing

Virtual reality applications for cognitive and physical rehabilitation, user-centered assessment of immersive and augmented virtual environments, mathematical modeling for medical applications, visual perception, skill acquisition, naturalistic decision making, brain plasticity

Anesthesiology, fNIR brain monitoring

Novel Infection Control Strategies, Wound Infection and Wound Healing, Surgical Infections, Biofilms, Infectious Skin Diseases, Biodefense, Translational Medicine, Molecular Diagnostics of Infectious diseases, Medical Devices and Clinical Trials, Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Plasma Medicine and Infection Control.

Cardiac repair and regeneration, tissue engineering, cardiovascular system dynamics, systems biology, cellular networks, cardiovascular engineering, telerobotics.

Game design, serious games, game industry, technology

3-D Tissue Engineering: scaffolds, solid-free-form fabrication, smart biomaterials, decelluarized matrices,tissue-specific differentiation, vascularization of engineered tissues,bioreactors. Stem Cell Research: Target differentiation of embryonic and adult stem cells for lung, cardiac, spinal cord and musculoskeletal tisue engineering and regenerative medicine. Space biology: (simulated) microgravity, space flight, NASA Other interests: neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular pathophysiology, biomatrices, cell-biomaterials interactions, artificial internal organs, endothelial cell biology, hemodynamic forces, atherosclerosis, genomics, signal transduction.

Brain trauma, brain disorders, electric shock injury, biomechanics associated with transportation-related injuries, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the performance of MRI compatibility testing for implantable and accessory devices.

Microfluidic devices to measure cell biochemical and mechanical responses; Auto-fluorescent mechanosensors; Flow and strain effects on endothelial cell – basement membrane interaction; Endothelial cell – smooth muscle cell interactions in diabetes; Plasma angiogenesis; advanced materials for accelerated wound healing; Nanoparticles for cardiovascular disease; sickle cell interactions with the vascular wall.

Computational modeling, neural modeling, neurorobotics, neuromimetics, neurocontrol, multiple,single neuron recording.

Biomedical signal processing, neurophysiological signals, functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), electroencephalography (EEG), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), event related potentials (ERPs), somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) and electromyography (EMG)

Digital signal processing, machine learning genomics, biological modeling, and chemical source localization and tracking.

The nucleus of my academic research is in discovering injury thresholds, mechanisms, and treatment strategies for the central nervous system, including the brain and spinal cord.

Orthopaedic total joint replacement biocompatibility, biomarker panel development for diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of joint replacement failures, medical use of dielectric barrier discharge plasma to enhance skeletal stem cell differentiation and tissue regeneration

Web search and mining, security informatics, knowledge management, cross-lingual information retrieval, text summarization, multimedia retrieval, information visualization, information sharing and privacy, digital library, and electronic commerce. His teaching interests include data mining, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, information systems analysis and design.

RF, Microwaves, Power Amplifiers, Circuits and Systems, Signal Processing