Colloquium Series
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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