Kristen Billiar

• Professor and Department Head Biomedical Engineering
• Email: kbilliar@wpi.edu
• Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5384

Professor Billiar studies the mechanisms by which mechanical forces regulate the development and healing of connective tissues and the pathogenesis of disease is becoming one of the foremost problems at the intersection of biomechanics and cell biology. ... View Profile

Gregory S. Fischer

• Professor Robotics Engineering
• Email: gfischer@wpi.edu
• Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5261

Professor Fischer develops surgical robotics, including MRI-compatible robotic devices for enhancing cancer diagnosis, add intelligent automation to telesurgery, and develop assistive robotics, including socially assistive robots and wearable physically ... View Profile

Songbai Ji

• Professor- Engineering Biomedical Engineering
• Email: sji@wpi.edu

Professor Ji's research seeks to integrate advanced neuroimaging into traumatic brain injury (TBI) biomechanics research to understand injuries to functionally important neural pathways while developing techniques to achieve near real-time response feed ... View Profile

Cagdas Onal

• Associate Professor/Graduate Coordinator Robotics Engineering
• Email: cdonal@wpi.edu
• Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x4857

Professor Onal conducts research in soft robotics, a largely underexplored area of robotics that has significance in medicine, manufacturing, and disaster response. ... View Profile

Karen Troy

• Professor- Engineering Biomedical Engineering
• Email: ktroy@wpi.edu
• Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6093

Professor Troy's research program aims to understand how physical forces (such as those generated by the body during exercise and sports) interact with and change bone structure. ... View Profile