BIOELECTRONICS - Key Persons


Aaron Hamvas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Chief of Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics

Alan Sahakian

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and ( by Courtesy ) Biomedical Engineering

Alice Gabrielle Twight

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

Allie Trueb

Job Titles:
  • Program Assistant ( QSIB / SQI / BME / CSB )

Allison Osmer

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Administrator

Amey Kasbe

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer

Amy Paller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Chair, Department of Dermatology / Director, Skin Biology and Diseases Resource - Based Center

Anastasiia Wedding

Job Titles:
  • Senior Program Coordinator

Ankit Bharat

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Chief of Thoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery

Anthony Banks QSIB

Job Titles:
  • Anthony Banks QSIB Director of Engineering Research
  • QSIB Director of Engineering Research
Anthony Banks has over 30 years of experience in academic research, with thirteen years as a member of the Rogers Research Group at University of Illinois and currently as a key member of the Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics. He has co-authored more than 20 publication during this time. Banks has managed large groups of postdoctoral fellows, research associates and graduate students in a range of multidisciplinary topics, from low temperature physics, to flexible electronics, photovoltaics, microfluidics and micro-electromechanical systems. He is skilled in direct, hand-on efforts in advanced technology and instrumentation development. His experience is distinguished not only by accomplishment in academic research but also, particularly in the past 12 years, in transfer of academic innovations to companies, both large (e.g. Loreal, Medtronic, Reebok and others) and small (MC10, Semprius, CoolEdge Lighting, NeuroLux, Wearifi, EpiCore and others) for scalable commercial product manufacturing. Banks served as Chief Technical Officer for AJA International, an international manufacturing company with a portfolio of products in the research and development sector. He also is co-inventor on several patents, and he is a private research consultant and co-founder of NeuroLux and Wearifi.

Apkar Apkarian

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Director, Center for Translational Pain Research / Professor of Neuroscience, Anesthesiology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Arun Jayaraman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical Social Sciences and Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences

Beatrice Cummings Mayer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • Professor of Pediatrics ( Critical Care )

Bethany Perez White

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Assistant Professor of Dermatology

Bonnie Martin-Harris

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

Bozhi Tian

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Member of the Board

Bradley Knight

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member

Bradley Tallon

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Cameron Good

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External
  • Animal Surgery Advisor
  • Cameron Good Animal Surgery Advisor

Canan Dagdeviren

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • QSIB Advisory Board Member / Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chad Haney

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Research Professor in the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute and Radiology and ( by Courtesy ) Biomedical Engineering

Charles Horace Mayo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • Professor of Medicine ( Nephrology and Hypertension )

Colin Franz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neurology - Ken and Ruth Davee Department

Craig Garfield

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Pediatrics ( Hospital - Based Medicine ) and Medical Social Sciences

D James Surmeier

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Chair, Department of Neuroscience

Daniel Hale Williams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery / Director, Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering

Daniele Procissi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Research Professor of Radiology ( Basic and Translational Radiology Research )

Debra Weese-Mayer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • Professor of Pediatrics ( Critical Care )

Edward Thorp

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Pathology ( Experimental Pathology ) and Pediatrics

Elizabeth J. Ward

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • Professor of Genetic Medicine / Professor of Medicine ( Cardiology ) and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Elizabeth McNally

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Director, Center for Genetic Medicine

Elizabeth Norton

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Director
  • Member of the Affiliated

Emily Waters

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Research Assistant Professor in the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute and ( by Courtesy ) Biomedical Engineering

Frederick Robert Zeit

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Pathology ( Experimental Pathology ) and Pediatrics

Guillermo Ameer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • Engineering Science

Ha Uk Chung

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External
  • Biomedical Electronics Advisor

Igor Efimov

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Biomedical Engineering / Professor of Medicine ( Division of Cardiology )

J. Edward Colgate

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated

Jacob Trueb

Job Titles:
  • Lead Software Engineer

Jan-Kai Chang Small

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External
  • Research Expand Research Submenu / Research
  • Small Wearables Advisor
  • Wearables Advisor
Dr. Jan-Kai Chang obtained a PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University in electrical engineering. Dr. Chang has over 10 years experience in bioelectronics technology, ranging from bioresorbable semiconductors to implantable transient electronics to wearable electronic systems. He has published over 13 peer-reviewed papers with the Wearifi team and is listed as an inventor on wearable technologies for skin health care including hydration, TEWL and UV sensors. His publications have appeared in prestigious journals such as PNAS, Nature Electronics, and Nature Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Chang is co-founder and CTO of Wearifi Inc, a spinout startup pursuing commercialization of wearable skincare technologies.

Jeffrey Model

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External
  • Jeff Model Medical Product Development and Manufacturing Advisor
  • Medical Product Development and Manufacturing Advisor
Jeff Model obtained his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. As the Medical Product Development and Manufacturing Advisor, he brings over 15 years of product development experience in the design, development, manufacturing, and commercialization of Class II and III medical devices to CBIE. During his tenure at MC10, Model led the mechanical architecture of the BioStamp wearable monitoring system, set up the skin bio-adhesive manufacturing line, co-authored the company-wide ISO 13485-certified quality management system, and led the company's first IRB-approved clinical study. Prior to that, he worked at Angiodynamics, where he helped drive the design and validation of the company's RF, microwave, and IRE ablation devices and systems. Prior to Angiodynamics, Model worked at Hologic and led the mechanical design and implementation of high volume Class III surgical devices from napkin-stage concepts to full market release. Model currently serves as technical lead/advisor at Wearifi and Vice President of Product Development at Epicore Biosystems, a company bringing novel skin-interfaced sweat microfluidic devices to consumer and medical markets.

Jessica Walter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology ( Reproductive Endo and Infertility )

John Coleman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Associate Professor of Medicine ( Pulmonary and Critical Care ) and Neurology - Ken and Ruth Davee Department

John Rogers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • QSIB Advisory Board Member
  • QSIB Director

John Wright

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External
  • Medical Product Development and Minimally Invasive Systems Advisor
John Wright obtained his MS in Material Science and Engineering and BS in Mechanical Engineering both from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Translational R&D and COO at Epicore Biosystems. He has extensive experience in both the medical device and pharmaceutical industries and has held leadership positions for the research, product development, pre-clinical / clinical evaluation, manufacturing, and commercial delivery of translational wearable biosensors, Class II and III advanced cardiac and neurovascular implantable and drug-delivery products.

Jonathan Rivnay

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Director of PhD Admissions of Biomedical Engineering

Jong Yoon Lee

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External
  • Jong Yoon Lee Software Engineering Advisor
  • Software Engineering Advisor
Jong Yoon Lee received his B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2018. He spent more than five years in John Rogers Research Group developing novel wireless biosensors with unique modalities and advancing three-dimensional electronic networks. He also served as a researcher at the Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research and the Jump Applied Research designing scalable cognitive applications. He co-founded Sibel Health and currently serves as a principal software engineer leading the software efforts for domestic and global clinical trials. Before joining Sibel Health, He also served in IBM Research and Yahoo, where he contributed to HPC/Cluster tools that leveraged Big Data and A.I.

Joon Yoon Lee

Job Titles:
  • Jong Yoon Lee Software Engineering Advisor

Joseph Cummings

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and ( by Courtesy ) Computer Science

Joshua Rosenow

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Neurological Surgery, Neurology - Ken and Ruth Davee Department and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Judith Moskowitz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Medical Social Sciences and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Jules J. Reingold

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • Professor of Electrophysiology / Professor of Medicine ( Cardiology ) and Preventive Medicine

June Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member

Kevin Swong

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery

Kimberly Querrey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • QSIB Advisory Board Chair / Trustee, Northwestern University / Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Gulf Shore Private Capital

Lauren Wakschlag

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Vice Chair for Scientific & Faculty Development, Department of Medical Social Sciences / Director, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences

Leena Mithal

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Assistant Professor of Pediatrics ( Infectious Diseases )

Leora Cherney

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Leslie Rydberg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Medical Education

Levi Hargrove

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and McCormick School of Engineering

Liam Palmer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Research Professor of Chemistry / Director of Research, Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology

Lisa Crossman

Job Titles:
  • Director of Operations and Outreach

Lisa Wolfe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Medicine ( Pulmonary and Critical Care ) and Neurology - Ken and Ruth Davee Department

Lorenzo Gallon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Medicine ( Nephrology and Hypertension ) and Surgery ( Organ Transplantation )

Louis Simpson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Professor

Marco Martina

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Margaret N. Method

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgery

Mary Kwasny

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Preventive Medicine ( Biostatistics )

Matthew Davis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Chair, Department of Pediatrics / Chief of Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care in the Department of Pediatrics

Matthew Grayson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Matthew Potts

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, Neurology - Ken and Ruth Davee Department and Radiology

Matthew Tate

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Neurology - Ken and Ruth Davee Department

Megan O'Brien

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Research Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Metin Sitti

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • QSIB Advisory Board Member / President, Koc University

Michael Bass

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Research Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences

Milap Sandhu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Research Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Nabil Alshurafa

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine ( Behavioral Medicine ) and McCormick School of Engineering

Nathan Smith Davis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • Professor of Neuroscience

Nina Suresh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Research Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Peter Lio

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member

R James Cotton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Richard Lieber

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neuroscience

Rishi Arora

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Medicine ( Cardiology )

Rodney Passman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Director, Center for Arrhythmia Research

Roozbeh Ghaffari

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • QSIB Advisory Board Member
  • QSIB Director of Translational Research / Research Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Ruth K. Freinkel

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Assistant Professor of Dermatology ( Translational Dermatology Research ), McCormick School of Engineering and Pediatrics ( Dermatology ), ( Currently on Leave )
  • QSIB Director of Medical Research

Samuel Stupp

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member

Sarah Bartolome

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Associate Professor of Music Education

Shannon Haymond

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Associate Professor of Pathology ( Pediatric Pathology )

Shiv Darius Tandon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine ( IPHAM ) - Center for Community Health / Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences

Shuai (Steve) Xu

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Assistant Professor of Dermatology ( Translational Dermatology Research ), McCormick School of Engineering and Pediatrics ( Dermatology ), ( Currently on Leave )
  • QSIB Advisory Board Member

Small Wearables

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External
  • Small Wearables Advisor

Stephen Lee Bioelectronics

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External
  • and Biosensors Advisor
  • Stephen Lee Bioelectronics and Biosensors Advisor
Stephen Lee received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1999, a B.E. from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in 2000 and an M.S. from Northeastern University in 2005 in E.E. Signals and Signal Processing. He has spent a decade as a Product Line Applications Engineer at Analog Devices focusing on amplifiers, analog multipliers, and biopotential signal conditioning circuits. At MC10 Inc, he served as a Senior Electrical Engineer developing wearable, ultra low-power circuits where he also managed an Advance Development team. He currently serves as Vice President of Engineering at Epicore Biosystems.

Sumanas Jordan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated

Susan Quaggin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Director, Feinberg Cardiovascular and Renal Research Institute / Chief of Nephrology and Hypertension in the Department of Medicine

Susanna McColley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Scientific Director for Interdisciplinary Research Partnerships / Professor of Pediatrics ( Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine )

Tae-Woo Lee

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • QSIB Advisory Board Member / Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University

Takao Someya

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • QSIB Advisory Board Member / Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Tokyo

Tatiana Efimova

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Research Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering

Theresa Brancaccio

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Senior Lecturer of Voice and Opera

Thomas Shanley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / President and Chief Executive Officer, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children 's Hospital of Chicago / Professor of Pediatrics ( Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine ) and Pediatrics ( Critical Care )

Tord Alden

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery ( Pediatric Neurological Surgery )

Walter J. Hamlin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • Professor of Dermatology / Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics ( Dermatology )

Walter P. Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Weihua Li

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External
  • Software and Firmware Engineering Advisor
  • Weihua Li Software and Firmware Engineering Advisor
Weihua Li obtained his BS in Applied Physics from Tsinghua University in 1996 and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Rochester in 2000. He currently serves as Vice President of Software Engineering at Epicore Biosystems and leads embedded and mobile software development for its wearable microfluidics platform. Prior to Epicore, he held senior engineering and management positions at RSA Security/EMC, MC10, and Philips Healthcare. He has over 20 years of experience in software development for various embedded systems such as IOT wearables, medical devices, security devices, wired and wireless sensor networks.

William Rymer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neuroscience

William Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • QSIB Advisory Board Member / Executive Director, Center for Nanoscale Systems ( CNS )

Xuanhe Zhao

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Member of the Board

Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Associate Professor of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Neuroscience

Yihui Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • QSIB Advisory Board Member / Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University

Yonggang Huang

Job Titles:
  • Director

Zheng Jenny Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Research Professor of Surgery ( Organ Transplantation )

Zhi-Dong Ge

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Affiliated
  • QSIB Member / Research Associate Professor of Pediatrics