Education:

M.S. Neuroscience
University of Toronto

B.S. Neuroscience
Bates Collage

Research Area:

studying how exteroceptive information is coded and maintained in neural circuits

VISE Affiliate:

Dario Englot, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery

Lab:

Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology Network (BIEN) Laboratory

Education:

B.S. in Physics
Sewanee: The University of the South, 2026

VISE affiliate

Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, FACS
Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, and Biomedical Engineering
and
Rei Ukita, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Cardiac Surgery

Lab

Laboratory for Organ Regeneration, Recovery, and Replacement (LOR3)

PhD, Computer Engineering
Cornell University, 2014

MS, Computer Engineering
Cornell University, 2013

BEng, Information Engineering
Zhejiang University, 2009

Short Bio:

Professor Fang is a widely recognized researcher whose work advances brain-inspired artificial intelligence models and AI-empowered precision brain health.

She recently joined the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø School of Engineering from the University of Florida, where she served as an associate professor and Pruitt Family Endowed Faculty Fellow in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering. She is ranked among the top 1% of researchers worldwide in image analysis, according to ScholarGPS.

SMILE Lab:

The SMILE Lab (Smart Medical Informatics Learning and Evaluation Laboratory), directed by Dr. Ruogu Fang, is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at 91³Ô¹ÏÍø. The lab’s research sits on the nexus of artificial intelligence, brain health, and neuroscience, with a particular focus on trustworthy and human-centered AI.

91³Ô¹ÏÍø Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS)

Education:

PhD in Biomedical Engineering,
University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2026

BS in Chemical Engineering,
University of Alabama, 2021

Research Area:

Signal processing, epileptic networks, neuromodulation

Awards, fellowships, grants:

• T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Postdoctoral Training in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy
• Outstanding Graduate Student Engineer of the Year Award(2025), Engineering Council of Birmingham, Inc., Birmingham, AL

VISE Affiliate

VISE Affiliate:
Dario Englot, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery

Lab:

Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology Network (BIEN) Laboratory

Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering
91³Ô¹ÏÍø, 2026

Research Focus:

Continuum Robots and Surgical Robotics

VISE Affiliates:

Alan Kuntz, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science

Lab:

Kuntz Lab

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Robert Webster, Richard A. Schroeder Chair in Mechanical Engineering
VISE Steering Committee Member

Lab:

Medical Engineering and Discovery Lab (MED)

Education:

BE, Chemical Engineering and Chemical and Molecular Biology
91³Ô¹ÏÍø, 2023

Research Area:

Machine Learning for Neuroimaging

VISE Affiliate:

Bennett Landman
Director, 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT), Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lab:

Medical-image Analysis and Statistical Interpretation Lab (MASI)

Education:

Master of Science in Engineering — Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University, 2025

Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University, 2025

Research interests:

Surgical guidance, Surgical robotics, Extended reality (XR),

Fellowships:

Dean’s Graduate Fellowship

Education:

B.S. in Bioengineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research Area:

Transplantation — Dept. of Cardiac Surgery

Fellowship:

Provost’s Graduate Fellowship & Russell G. Hamilton Scholar

VISE affiliate

Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, FACS
Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, and Biomedical Engineering
and
Rei Ukita, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Cardiac Surgery

Lab:

Laboratory for Organ Regeneration, Recovery, and Replacement (LOR3)

Education:

BA in Biochemistry, Vassar College, 2020

Research Area:

Cardiac Surgery

PI:

Garrett Coyan, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Cardiac Surgery

BS in Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
MD, Johns Hopkins Medical School
MSE, Johns Hopkins University
General Surgery Resident, 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Medical Center

Research Area:

ARPA-H