Faculty
Biomedical Engineering Faculty

Mohammad Reza Abidian
Associate Professor
Office Location SERC 2020
Phone 713-743-0869
Email mabidian [at] uh.edu

Metin Akay
Founding ChairJohn S Dunn Endowed Chair Professor
Office Location SERC 2027
Phone 832-842-8813
Email makay [at] uh.edu

Yasemin Akay
Instructional Associate Professor
Office Location SERC 2007
Phone 832-842-8840
Email ymakay [at] uh.edu

Muayyad Al-Ubaidi
Moores Professor
Office Location SERC 2012
Phone 713-743-1648
Email malubaid [at] central.uh.edu

Ran An
Assistant Professor
Phone 713-743-2061
Email ran [at] uh.edu

Yuncheng Du
Associate Professor
Office Location SERC 2007
Phone 713-743-7933
Email ydu19 [at] central.uh.edu

Joe Francis
Professor
Office Location HBS 444
Phone 713-743-0985
Email jtfrancis [at] uh.edu

Howard Gifford
Associate Professor
Office Location SERC 2006
Phone 832-842-8715
Email hgifford [at] uh.edu

Renita Horton
Assistant Professor
Office Location SERC 2012
Phone 713-743-0997
Email rehorton [at] Central.UH.EDU

Kirill Larin
Director for Graduate ProgramCullen College of Engineering Professor
Office Location HBS 509
Phone 832-842-8834
Email klarin [at] uh.edu

Zhengwei Li
Assistant Professor
Office Location Health2, 8010A
Phone 713-743-2684
Email zli65 [at] central.uh.edu

Sheereen Majd
Associate Professor
Office Location SERC 2021
Phone 713-743-0866
Email smajd9 [at] uh.edu

Chandra Mohan
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor
Office Location SERC 2004
Phone 713-743-3709
Email cmohan [at] central.uh.edu

Muna Naash
John S Dunn Endowed Professor
Office Location SERC 2011
Phone 713-743-1651
Email mnaash [at] central.uh.edu

Jinsook Roh
Assistant Professor
Office Location SERC 2011
Phone 713-743-2578
Email jroh [at] uh.edu

Jerome Schultz
Distinguished Professor
Office Location SERC 2010
Phone 713-743-4098
Email jschult4 [at] central.uh.edu

Sergey Shevkoplyas
Professor
Office Location SERC 2009
Phone 713-743-5696
Email sshevkop [at] central.uh.edu

Lu Wang
Assistant Professor
Phone 713-743-3844
Email lwang71 [at] central.uh.edu

Tianfu Wu
Associate Professor
Office Location SERC 2008
Phone 713-743-0142
Email twu13 [at] central.uh.edu

Yingchun Zhang
Associate Professor
Office Location HBS 390
Phone 713-743-6127
Email yzhang94 [at] uh.edu
Faculty with Adjunct BME Appointments

Irina Larina
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office Location Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, S434
Email larina [at] bcm.edu

Alexander Oraevsky
Adjunct ProfessorPresident and Chief Technology Officer at TomoWave Laboratories, Inc.
Office Location 6550 Mapleridge Street, Suite 124
Phone 713-270-5393
Email aao [at] tomowave.com
Faculty with Joint BME Appointments
- Venkatesh Balan, Ph.D. (Technology Division)
- Yi-Chao Chen, Ph.D. (ME)
- Patrick Cirino, Ph.D. (ChBE)
- Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D. (ECE)
- Mini Das, Ph.D. (Physics)
- Vallabh Das, Ph.D. (Optometry)
- Matthew A. Franchek. Ph.D. (ME)
- Ioannis Kakadiaris, Ph.D. (CS)
- Fatima Merchant, Ph.D. (Technology Division)
- Lauri Nurminen, Ph.D. (Optometry)
- Luca Pollonini, Ph.D. (Technology Division)
- Jason Porter, Ph.D. (Optometry)
- Paul Ruchhoeft, Ph.D. (ECE)
- Wei-Chuan Shih, Ph.D. (ECE)
- Navin Varadarajan, Ph.D. (ChBE)
- Richard Willson, Ph.D. (ChBE)
- George Zouridakis, Ph.D. (Technology Division)