Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University

21 faculty and 29 courses in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University.

Faculty

• Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Professor of Biomedical Engineering h-index 138
  Notable: “Advanced maturation of human cardiac tissue grown from pluripotent stem cells” (2018) · 1,246 citations
• Elisa Konofagou, Professor of Biomedical Engineering h-index 78
  Notable: “Elastography: Ultrasonic estimation and imaging of the elastic properties of tissues” (1999) · 784 citations
• X. Edward Guo, Professor of Biomedical Engineering h-index 35
  Notable: “Microstructures-based constitutive analysis for mechanical properties of gradient-nanostructured 304 stainless steels” (2017) · 118 citations
• Sanja Vickovic, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering h-index 21
  Notable: “Visualization and analysis of gene expression in tissue sections by spatial transcriptomics” (2016) · 3,885 citations
• Kam Leong, Professor of Biomedical Engineering h-index 18
  Notable: “A Survey on the Computational Complexity of Coloring Graphs with Forbidden Subgraphs” (2016) · 131 citations
• Ke Cheng, Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering h-index 9
  Notable: “Dual oxygen supply system of carbon dot-loaded microbubbles with acoustic cavitation for enhanced sonodynamic therapy in diabetic wound healing” (2025) · 36 citations
• Barclay Morrison, Professor of Biomedical Engineering h-index 1
• Santiago Correa, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering h-index 1
  Notable: “35+1 challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2023” (2023) · 1 citations
• Andrew Laine, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Clark Hung, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Elham Azizi, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Helen Lu, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Henry Hess, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Jose McFaline-Figueroa, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Lance Kam, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Lauren Heckelman, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Biomedical Engineering
• Nandan Nerurkar, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Paul Sajda, Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering
• Samuel Sia, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Tal Danino, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Treena Arinzeh, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Courses

• Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Design BMEN E2910
• Biomedical Engineering I BMEN E3010
• Biomedical Engineering II BMEN E3020
• Biomedical Engineering Lab I BMEN E3810
• Biomedical Engineering Lab II BMEN E3820
• Biomedical Engineering Design BMEN E3910
• Biomedical Engineering Design II BMEN E3920
• Quantitative Physiology I BMEN E4001
• Quantitative Physiology II: Organ Systems BMEN E4002
• Electrophysiology of Human Memory & Navigation BMEN E4050
• Biostatistics for Engineers BMEN E4110
• Driving Forces of Biological Systems BMEN E4210
• Biomechanics of Musculoskeletal Soft Tissues BMEN E4302
• Solid Biomechanics BMEN E4310
• Cellular Bioengineering & Therapeutics BMEN E4330
• Principles of Ultrasound in Medicine BMEN E4410
• Signal Modeling BMEN E4420
• Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging BMEN E4430
• Deep Learning in Biomedical Imaging BMEN E4460
• Deep Learning for Biomedical Signal Processing BMEN E4470
• Statistical Machine Learning for Genomics BMEN E4480
• Functional Genomics: Methods and Applications BMEN E4500
• Biomaterials and Scaffold Design BMEN E4501
• Tissue Engineering BMEN E4510
• Synthetic Biology: Principles of Genetic Circuits BMEN E4520
• Advanced Cell and Tissue Engineering BMEN E4525
• Drug and Gene Delivery BMEN E4530
• Neural Control Engineering BMEE E4030
• Bioinstrumentation BMEE E4740

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.