Frances Arnold Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry Biofuels, protein engineering, metabolic engineering, biological circuit design, directed evolution, biocatalysis
	Michael Elowitz Associate Professor of Biology and Applied Physics; Bren Scholar; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Biophysics; Biocomputing; Gene regulation networks and variation in living cells
	Scott Fraser Anna L. Rosen Professor of Biology and Professor of Bioengineering; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center Developmental neurobiology, light microscopy, advanced imaging techniques
	Chin-Lin Guo Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics Investigating cellular mechanisms of self-organization in biological systems, particularly the biomechanics that enhance and stabilize spatiotemporal control, where collective locomotion usually leads to integrated global behaviors
	Richard Murray Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering Application of feedback and control to mechanical, information, and biological systems
	Rob Phillips Professor of Applied Physics, Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering; Option Representative for Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (BMB) Biophysics of macromolecules and their assemblies
	Niles Pierce Associate Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering; Executive Officer and Option Representative for Bioengineering Engineering nucleic acid function. Molecular mechanisms for detection, transduction, amplification, logic and locomotion. Computational algorithms for analyzing and designing nucleic acid systems. Molecular instruments for reading out and regulating genetic expression. Conditional chemotherapies.
	Paul W.K. Rothemund Senior Research Associate in Bioengineering, Computer Science, and Computation and Neural Systems Molecular programming and algorithms, DNA computation, nucleic acid structure and thermodynamics, principles of self-assembly, nanotechnology, bionanolithography, using DNA nanostructures as instrumentation for biochemistry and biophysics.
	Michael L. Roukes Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering; Co-Director, Kavli Nanoscience Institute Nanobiotechnology, nanotechnology, nanoscale physics, nanoscale and molecular mechanics
	Erik Winfree Associate Professor of Computer Science, Computation and Neural Systems, and Bioengineering Biomolecular computation, DNA based computation, algorithmic self-assembly, in vitro biochemical circuits, noise and fault-tolerance, DNA and RNA folding, evolution.
	Changhuei Yang Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering Biophotonics, Bioimaging

Affiliated Faculty

	Anand Asthagiri Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Biomolecular cell engineering, cell-biomaterial interactions, cell signaling and regulatory networks, developmental and multicellular patterning, systems biology, tissue engineering
	Kaushik Bhattacharya Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science; Executive Officer for Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of muscles, multiphase lipid bilayer membranes, mechanics of materials, multi-scale modeling, active materials, shape-memory alloys, ferroelectrics, mechanics of hierarchical biological structures
	Joel Burdick Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering Robotics, neural prosthetics, and rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries
	John Doyle John G Braun Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering Theoretical foundations and software infrastructure for complex technological and biological networks
	Michael Dickinson Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering Physiology and mechanics of flight behavior in insects
	Mory Gharib Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aronautics and Professor of Bio-Inspired Engineering Biofluid dynamics, biomechanics, cardiac assist devices and advanced diagnostics
	Ali Hajimiri Professor of Electrical Engineering Chip-based magnetic, optical, and electrical integrated biosensors for low-cost point-of-care diagnostics and sequencing applications. Self-healing circuits and systems.
	Henry A. Lester Bren Professor of Biology Neuroscience—Study of nervous system at the molecular, cellular, and system level
	Elliot M. Meyerowitz George W. Beadle Professor of Biology; Chair, Division of Biology Computational modeling of plant development, computational analysis of microscope images
	Jerome Pine Professor of Physics Learning, memory, and synaptic plasticity in cultured neural networks
	Paul Sternberg Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Molecular genetics of development, nematodes, cancer genes
	Yu-Chong Tai Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; Executive Officer for Electrical Engineering Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), micromachines, sensors/actuators, microfluidics, and biochips
	David Tirrell Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Polymer chemistry; materials chemistry; biomaterials

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