Faculty with Secondary Appointments in MIE

Karim Abdel-Malek

Research Interests: Kinematics of humans and digital human modeling, CAD, virtual reality and visualization, robotics, machine design, and mechanisms for medical applications.

Thomas D. Brown

Research Interests:
Total joint arthroplasty (hip, ankle, knee, wrist), osteonecrosis of the hip, high-energy fracture comminution, fracture fixation, joint kinematics, cell mechanostimulus, and articular contact pressures as they relate to joint degeneration.

Matthew Rizzo

Research Interests: Behavioral disturbances resulting from CNS injury, neural substrates of human vision (attention and visuomotor coordination), aging and dementia, driving performance in neurological disease, driving simulation.

Research Interests: Linear and nonlinear programming, interior-point algorithms, nonlinear integer programming.

Jasbir S. Arora

Research Interests: Optimization of nonlinear structures, optimization and control of nonlinear systems, large scale structural.

Warren Darling

Research Interests: Motor control and biomechanics.

Joon B. Park

Research Interests: Biomaterials (joint replacements), blood compatible materials.

Kwan Rim

Research Interests: Non-linear mechanics applied to orthopedic systems and mechanisms of swallowing.

Han-Chin Wu

Research Interests: Mechanical behavior of metals, composites, and soils and Theoretical and experimental investigation of mechanical behavior and fracture of engineering materials

Krishnan B. Chandran

Research Interests: Hemodynamics, cardiac mechanics, vascular prosthesis and artificial heart valve dyanmics, fluid dynamic.

Jun Ni

Research Interests: Nano-science and nanotechnology, thermo-fluid science, biotransport phenomena and process, bi-physics, biomechanical system, biomedical imaging, and informatics