Director, Biotechnology Leadership Program
- Frances Arnold: Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, and Bioengineering; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center
- Directed evolution, synthetic biology, protein engineering, biocatalysis, biofuels
Faculty Mentors
- Jacqueline K. Barton: Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry; Chair, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Biochemistry and molecular biophysics, chemistry
- Pamela Bjorkman: Centennial Professor of Biology
- HIV, protein design, antibody therapeutics, structural immunology
- Joel Burdick: Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering
- Robotics, kinematics, mechanical systems and control
- Hyuck Choo: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
- Micro-/nano-scale optics, nanophotonics, micro-/nano-scale imaging
- Mark E. Davis: Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering; Member, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Experimental Therapeutics Program
- Designs for the synthesis of inorganic and hybrid, organic-inorganic materials for catalysis and biocompatible materials for the delivery of macromolecular therapeutics
- Michael Elowitz: Professor of Biology & Bioengineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Executive Officer for Biological Engineering
- Biophysics, biocomputing, gene regulation networks and variation in living cells
- Azita Emami: Professor of Electrical Engineering
- High-performance integrated circuits and systems
- Morteza Gharib: Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering; Director, Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences; Vice Provost
- Quantitative visualization, bioinspired flow system, flow structure interaction, bubbly flows, wind and hydro energy harvesting
- Viviana Gradinaru: Assistant Professor of Biology
- Reverse engineering brain circuits, optogenetics, protein engineering, neuroscience technology
- Julia R. Greer: Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics
- Nano-scale phenomena, mechanical properties, in-situ deformation, nano-fabrication
- Robert H. Grubbs: Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry
- Organometallic synthesis and mechanisms, organic synthesis and reagents, polymer synthesis
- Ali Hajimiri: Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering
- Integrated circuits, biosensing, integrated radar, CMOS power amplifiers, lab-on-a-chip, high-speed communication circuits
- Rustem Ismagilov: Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Director of the Jacobs Institute for Molecular Engineering for Medicine
- Microfluidics, complex networks of reactions, cells and organisms, microbial communities, spatial structure, human health in resource-limited settings
- Julia Kornfield: Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Polymeric and supramolecular liquids: physics and rheology
- Sarkis Mazmanian: Luis B. and Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute
- Evolutionary mechanisms of host-bacterial symbiosis during health and disease
- Stephen Mayo: Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry; William K. Bowes Jr. Leadership Chair, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
- Coupling of theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches for the study of structural biology
- Markus Meister: Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences; Neurobiology Graduate Option Representative
- Brain science, function of neural circuits, sensory processing, neural coding and computation, instruments for recording neural signals
- Richard Murray: Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering; Bioengineering Graduate Option Representative
- Feedback and control in biological circuits, synthetic biology, molecular programming
- Niles Pierce: Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering
- Molecular programming, nucleic acid nanotechnology, RNA engineering, molecular algorithms, molecular instruments for readout and regulation of cell state
- Lulu Qian: Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
- Artificial, programmable molecular systems that recognize events, process information, make decisions, take actions, learn and evolve
- Axel Scherer: Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics; Co-Director, Kavli Nanoscience Institute
- Design, fabrication, and characterization of nanoscale photonic, magnetic, and fluidic devices and systems
- Mikhail Shapiro: Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Molecular and cellular engineering, non-invasive imaging and control of biological function, neuroscience, nanotechnology, synthetic biology
- Yu-Chong Tai: Anna L. Rosen Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; Executive Officer for Medical Engineering
- MEMS, Bio-MEMS, Micromachining, lab-on-a-chip, microfluidics, drug delivery, micro implants, circulating tumor cell, parylene, Bio-med
- David Tirrell: Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Director, Beckman Institute
- Polymer chemistry, materials chemistry, biomaterials
- Zhen-Gang Wang: Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Statistical mechanics of structures, surfaces, interfaces, phase transitions and dynamics in complex fluids, including polymers, liquid-crystals, and gels; biophysics of DNA; evolutionary protein design
- Changhuei Yang: Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Medical Engineering; Bioengineering Undergraduate Option Representative
- Biophotonics, bioimaging