Advisory Board and Editors Bioengineering
Olorunseun O Ogunwobi
Dr. Ogunwobi obtained a medical degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, a master's degree in biomedicine from the University of Hull, United Kingdom, a master's degree in clinical and translational science from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and a PhD in molecular biology from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. He was the Founding Director of the Hunter College Center for Cancer Health Disparities Research. He is now the Barnett Rosenberg Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chairperson in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Michigan State University. In addition, he will serve as Co-Director of the forthcoming Center for Cancer Health Equity Research (CCHER) at Michigan State University. He is a translational cancer biologist whose work focuses on molecular mechanisms of progression of solid organ cancers with racial disparities, and on approaches to leverage non-coding RNA biology for potential clinical applications in cancer. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, New York State, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the National Science Foundation, among others. Dr. Ogunwobi was a Founding Contact Principal Investigator of the Synergistic Partnership for Enhancing Equity in Cancer Health (SPEECH) funded by U54 grants CA221704 and CA221705 from the National Cancer Institute. An author of 74 peer-reviewed journal articles and 3 book chapters, Dr. Ogunwobi has been issued 5 US patents for biotechnology inventions with potential clinical applications in cancer. He is the recipient of the 2022 Hunter College Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship or Creative Activity, and selected as a Jefferson Science Fellow by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and as a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine Specialties of Nigeria. He is Co-Founder of UTR Therapeutics, Inc (winner of the 2023 XSeed Award from Deerfield), and NucleoBio, Inc.
Sean P. Palecek
Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Colin Palmer
An engineer by training with a wide interest in low speed aerodynamics and the fluid dynamics of animal locomotion. PhD topic was the flight of the large pterosaurs. Research Associate at the universities of Bristol and Southampton in the UK.
Santosh Pandey
Dr. Santosh Pandey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University.
His research areas include bioengineering, microelectronics, microfluidics, sensors, machine intelligence, plant pathology, electrophysiology, data analytics, and drug screening.
Leonardo Alexandre Peyré-Tartaruga
I grew up in the south Brazil, alternating times between Montevideo (Uruguay) and Porto Alegre (Brazil). Crossing the Pampas several times made me deeply interested in nature and biology. After, I joined my passion for sports and movement to the area of biology. Last year, after 17 years as Assistent and Associate Professor in the UFRGS (Brazil), I moved to Pavia, and currently I am Professor UniPV, Italy. I am interested in minima, maxima and others optima in terrestrial locomotion & Sports Sciences. The pathological gait is a very interesting area to apply basic concepts of human locomotion. I am very proud to study and principally, to change life in the Parkinson projects. Also, and most important, the study on mechanical determinants of locomotion performance and economy is my passion.
Ivan Miguel Pires
Dr. Ivan Miguel Pires is a web and mobile developer, and adjunct professor at Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, Portugal.
Related to the back-end development:
He has worked with native PHP and OutSystems, and some PHP frameworks, including Zend, Symfony, Yii, Silex and Wordpress.
Related to the database development:
Dr. Pires has primarily worked with MariaDB and MySQL.
Related to the client-side development:
Dr. Pires has worked with native JavaScript, BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS, jQuery, jQueryUI, AngularJS, Angular 2, Angular 4 and others.
Related to the mobile development:
Dr Pires' primary research experience is related to the Android development. With additional training in Swift 3.
Related to my academic experience:
Dr. Pires was awarded a MSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Following this, his research focused on the use of mobile devices' sensors for the development of a platform related to Ambient Assisted Living.
Dr. Pires was awarded his PhD, and following this, his research has focused on the automatic recognition of Activities of Daily Living to be implemented as a module for the development of a personal digital life coach.
Certifications: Professional Trainer Certification; Scrum Master Certified; Scrum Product Owner Certified; Google Android Programming Certification; Oracle Certified Associate Java SE 7 Programmer; iOS Technical Test; OutSystems Apprentice Developer Certification.
Xavier Pochon
Team Leader, Molecular Surveillance, Biosecurity Group, Cawthron Institute, New Zealand.
Associate Professor, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
My research at the Cawthron Institute is highly applied and consist of developing multi-trophic molecular tools for environmental monitoring of marine industries (e.g. aquaculture farms, marine biosecurity in ports and marinas, and deep-sea exploration).
At the University of Auckland, I combine 'real-world' and 'blue-sky' research applications, including; i) investigating functional underpinnings of Symbiodiniaceae in coral reef ecosystems, ii) characterizing microbiomes in aquaculture and natural settings, iii) measuring eDNA and eRNA decay rates in marine invertebrates and vertebrates, iv) studying preferential settlement of marine invasive species associated with marine plastic debris, and v) exploring the diversity and dynamics of open-ocean plankton communities in the Pacific and beyond.
Matthew J Powell-Palm
Dr. Matthew Powell-Palm is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering / Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M, working on matters of core materials thermodynamics, phase change processes, cryopreservation, and low-temperature aqueous physics writ large.
Tarl W Prow
Dr. Tarl Prow is the Deputy Director of the Dermatology Research Centre within the School of Medicine and heads a group of 10 researchers focused on micromedical devices for dermatology and nanomedicine. He is a multidisciplinary researcher with internationally recognized expertise in the fields of micro-medical device development, nanodermatology, topical drug delivery and non-invasive imaging.
Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman
Dr. Sivarama Krishnan Rajaraman is working as a research scientist at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Rajaraman received his Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering from Anna University, India. He is involved in projects that aim to apply computational sciences and engineering techniques toward advancing life science applications. These projects involve the use of medical images for aiding healthcare professionals in low-cost decision-making at the POC screening/diagnostics. He is a versatile researcher with expertise in machine learning, data science, biomedical image analysis, and computer vision. He has more than 15 years of experience in academia where he taught core and allied subjects in biomedical engineering. He has authored several national and international journal and conference publications in his area of expertise. Dr. Rajaraman is an Editorial Board member of the PLOS ONE, PeerJ Computer Science, MDPI Knowledge, and MDPI Electronics journals. He is reviewing manuscripts for more than 75 journals including those published by Nature, LANCET, IEEE, MDPI, Elsevier, and other conferences including CVPR, EMBS, CBMS, and MICCAI. Dr. Rajaraman is a Life Member of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), a regular member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS), and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).
Prashanth Ravishankar
Dr. Prashanth Ravishankar received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Arkansas. He is a Research and Development Scientist at Namida Lab Inc.
He has over a decade of experience in areas of Bioengineering, Biomaterials, Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering, and Bone and Cardiovascular Bioengineering. He has presented at international conferences in the USA, Canada, and Abu Dhabi. He also serves as an editorial member on BMC Research Notes and as a reviewer for journals and conferences.
Mark A Robinson
Mark’s research interests are related to musculoskeletal loading, injury and impairment in the lower limbs. Of particular interest are lower limb injuries, monitoring of training loads, gait and biomechanical data analysis. He has published >70 journal articles in these areas and has >90 verified reviews. He hosted the 2022 conference of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports in Liverpool.