PhD Advisors at University of Pittsburgh 匹兹堡大学
Research-focused faculty at University of Pittsburgh, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (79)
Professors at University of Pittsburgh with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Aaron S Devanathan
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Dr. Aaron Devanathan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics. He received his PharmD from the University of Pittsburgh and completed PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at UNC Hospitals. He earned a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences and completed the UN…
Afonso Silva
Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ Afonso Silva Skip to main content Bioengineering Open Navigation Afonso Silva Publications Park, S. An open access resource for marmoset neuroscientific apparatus. An Open Access Resource for Marmoset Neuroscientific Apparatus. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE OPEN , 16-17. An open access resource for …
Neurosciences Clinical sciences Biomedical engineering Biological psychology Cognitive and computational psychology Biochemistry and cell biology
Albert To
Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ I also conducted postdoctoral research with Wing Kam Liu at Northwestern University. i6Al4V Component Using Wire-Arc Directed Energy Deposition. An integrated hybrid wire-arc directed energy deposition, friction stir processing, and milling system for multi-track, multi-layer part manufacturing. wal…
My primary research interests are in design optimization for additive manufacturing, multiscale methods, and computational mechanics. Currently, my research group is actively working on fast process modeling and topology optimization for metal additive manufacturing. I joined Uni…
Aleksandar Stevanovic
Associate Professor · Civil and Environmental
⭐ ovic Skip to main content Civil and Environmental Open Navigation Aleksandar Stevanovic Dr. He has advised more than 30 graduate students (MSc and PhD) and five post-doctoral associates.
Dr. Stevanovic is an Associate Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He teaches courses in traffic engineering, transportation planning, and operations research and conducts research in a variety of subjects including …
Alicia R. Mathers Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology; Associate Professor, Department of Immunology · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Graduate students interested in rotation opportunities should contact Dr. Mathers.
Understanding induction of cutaneous inflammation, in particular psoriasis and wound healing; Develop novel therapeutics utilizing both murine and human models. In our first project we are examining the role of danger signals, specifically ATP/P2X7R, in the development and mainte…
Amr Mahmoud
Associate Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ Comprehensive Study on The Effect of Diversity Composition on Engineering Teams’ Dynamics. In 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings . In 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings . In 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings .
PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 2015 - 2019
MSc, Cairo University, 2012 - 2015
BSc, Cairo University, 2006 - 2011
Data management and data science
Machine learning
Nanotechnology
Badie Morsi
Professor · Chemical and Petroleum
⭐ Morsi Skip to main content Chemical and Petroleum Open Navigation Badie Morsi Awards (2005 - 2008) Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE).
Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering, University of Lorraine, 1982
Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering, University of Lorraine, 1979
Graduate in Chemical Engineering, University of Lorraine, 1977
Undergraduate in Petroleum Engineering, Cairo University, 1972
Bo Zeng
Associate Professor · Industrial
⭐ Outer Approximation and Generalized Benders Decomposition. A projection-based reformulation and decomposition algorithm for global optimization of a class of mixed integer bilevel linear programs. em Expansion Planning Using Bilinear Benders Decomposition. and Wind Power Output Using Bilinear Bender…
My research focus on developing and utilizing optimization and analytics tools to address challenges in real systems, especially discrete optimization models with uncertainties (robust and stochastic mixed integer programs), game theory models, and advanced data analysis and comp…
Brian Gleeson
Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ tent Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Open Navigation Brian Gleeson Currently the Harry S. e Coatings with Pt-Modified Ni and Ni3Al Alloy Compositions. High Temperature Reaction of MCrAlY Coating Compositions with CaO Deposits. On the phase composition changes during high temperature oxi…
Currently the Harry S. Tack Chaired Professor of Materials Science in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to serving as department chair from 2014-2025, he served as Director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Cente…
Carl Snyderman
Professor · Swanson School of Engineering
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Carl H. Snyderman, MD, MBA, is Professor of Otolaryngology, with secondary appointments in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering,…
Catherine Greeno
Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Development of practice-based evidence in Mental Health
Barriers and facilitators to implementation of reform in county-support case management
Outcomes for people discharged from a state psychiatric hospital
Mental health services research
Christian A Fernandez
Associate Professor · University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students, Accepting PhD Students
Dr. Christian Fernandez is an Associate Professor at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and a member of the Center for Pharmacogenetics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, and he completed h…
Cynthia L Salter
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Salter is not able to consider PhD advisees for the 2025-26 academic year.
Dr. Salter is not able to consider PhD advisees for the 2025-26 academic year.
I chose to pursue a doctoral degree after working for many years with a community-based program focused on improving birth experiences and maternal health outcomes for women in Pittsburgh and Alleghen…
Da Yang
Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Since joining Pitt in 2014, Dr. Yang has established a highly visible and well-funded research program. His laboratory has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles, including senior-author papers in Cancer Cell, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Cell Genomics, Nature Co…
Daniel Shiwarski
Assistant Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ iel Shiwarski Skip to main content Bioengineering Open Navigation Daniel Shiwarski Dr. During his postdoctoral research fellowship in Dr. tissue microfluidics, and iii) the generation of opensource hardware and software for tissue engineering and cellular biomechanics evaluation. Development of a hi…
Dr. Shiwarski obtained a combined undergraduate degree from Bucknell University in cell biology and biochemistry, a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences and Neuroscience from Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for Neural Basis of Cognition, and completed a Postdoctoral fellowship …
Danielle M Tufts
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ I am interested in recruiting motivated graduate students who are interested in tick-borne diseases, disease ecology, and host-vector-pathogen interactions.
I am a vector-borne disease ecologist interested in evolutionary genetics, pathogen transmission pathways, ecological drivers of pathogen emergence, host-vector-parasite interactions, and co-infections. My goal is to enhance our understanding of these complex interactions by comb…
David Sanchez
Associate Professor · Civil and Environmental
⭐ chez Skip to main content Civil and Environmental Open Navigation David Sanchez David V. In 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings . In 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings . In ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings , 2020-June. In ASEE Annual C…
David V.P. Sanchez is an Associate Professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s Civil & Environmental Engineering department and serves as the Associate Director for the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation. He coordinates the Design EXPO that showcases 90+ projects from ~400…
Deborah Moon
Associate Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Developing, adapting, implementing, and evaluating interventions designed to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and promote mental health among marginalized families in under-resourced communities. Informed by Implementation Science and Health and Human Services Researc…
Douglas Slain
Department Chair of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Dr. Slain leads the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics in continuing our excellence, innovation and leadership to propel our mission forward. His leadership aligns with our Pitt Pharmacy goals driving excellence in education, research, service, and fostering a thriving commu…
Emily F Dauria
Assistant Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Dauria is able to consider PhD advisees for the 2025-26 academic year.
Broadly, the goal of my work is to end health inequities experienced among individuals surveilled or impacted by the criminal legal system (e.g., the system of policing, prosecution, courts, detention, and community supervision [probation or parole]). I direct the Just Health Col…
Feng Xiong
Associate Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ - 2016) Nano- and Quantum Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford. (2014) Graduate Student Gold Award, Materials Research Society (MRS). Selective deposition and stable encapsulation of lithium through heterogeneous seeded growth.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Material Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 2014 - 2016
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, 2011 - 2014
M.S., Electrical and Computer…
Guofeng Wang
Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ (2002) Silver award winner of Graduate Student Award at 2002 spring MRS meeting. Electrified vapour deposition at ultrahigh temperature and atmospheric pressure for nanomaterials synthesis. Composition-dependent ordering transformations in Pt-Fe nanoalloys. Highly efficient decomposition of ammonia …
Ph.D., Materials Science (minor in Computer Science), California Institute of Technology, 2002
M.S., Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, 1999
M.E., Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1997
B.E., Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua Un…
Helen E. Petracchi
Associate Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Helen Petracchi earned her PhD in Social Welfare at the UW –Madison, where she also earned her MSSW. degree. Dr. Petracchi’s scholarly interests lie in improving the professional delivery of social services to vulnerable populations. To this end, she has focused on identifying th…
Heng Huang
John A. Jurenko Endowed Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Primary Appointment); Professor, Biomedical Informatics (Secondary Appointment)
⭐ I am looking for Postdoc, PhD students, motivated for doing research in the areas of big data, machine learning, bioinformatics, computer vision, and biomedical image analysis. If you are interested, please contact me.
John A. Jurenko Endowed Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Primary Appointment)
Professor, Biomedical Informatics (Secondary Appointment)
Imam H Shaik
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Imam Shaik is Assistant Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. He received his B.Pharm and M.Pharm degrees from University college of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Kakatiya University, Warangal, and Ph.D. from Texas Tech University…
Jason A Deakings
Assistant Professor, Associate Director, Center for Health Equity · School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Deakings is able to consider PhD advisees for the 2025-26 academic year.
Jason A. Deakings is a health equity and social justice scholar, non-traditional researcher and educator. He has over 15 years of experience navigating the non-profit world centering community capacity, social mobility and support services. Particularly, providing actionable solu…
Jeen-Shang Lin
Associate Professor · Civil and Environmental
⭐ oved friction force calculation with an augmented open-close iteration formulation in discontinuous deformation analysis. shaped breakout failure mechanisms in underground opening.
Civil engineering Resources engineering and extractive metallurgy Geology Geophysics Biochemistry and cell biology Biomedical engineering
Jingtong Hu
Associate Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ g Hu Skip to main content Electrical and Computer Open Navigation Jingtong Hu Awards (2021) IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design Donald O.
Electronics, sensors and digital hardware; Electrical engineering; Distributed computing and systems software; Architecture; Graphics, augmented reality and games; Data management and data science
PhD, University of Texas at Dallas, 2007 - 2013; B.E., Shandong University, 2003 - …
John Keith
Professor · Chemical and Petroleum
⭐ (2008 - 2010) Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship. Theoretical studies of Pd metal deposition on the √3 x √3 4-mercaptopyridine self-assembled monolayer.
Computational research at the confluence of chemistry, applied physics, materials science, and engineering.
Research Interests: Physical chemistry Theoretical and computational chemistry Organic chemistry Atomic, molecular and optical physics Inorganic chemistry Macromolecular a…
John Whitefoot
Associate Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ tent Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Open Navigation John Whitefoot Awards (2024) Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award.
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, 2012
MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, 2001
BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, 1999
Automotive engineering
Mechanical engineering…
Joseph Rubin
Distinguished Professor · Swanson School of Engineering
⭐ kip to main content Swanson School of Engineering Open Navigation Joseph Rubin Publications Satish, L.
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Juan Jose Mendoza Arenas
Assistant Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ any-particle systems is full of exciting and wide-open problems, whose solution would provide society with new clean and efficient technologies.
From processes we find in our daily life, to effects in nanoscale devices, interactions between different constituent elements of a system are of vital importance. Several prominent cases take place in quantum materials, where many-body correlations are responsible for spectacula…
Julie Phillippi
Associate Professor · Swanson School of Engineering
⭐ kip to main content Swanson School of Engineering Open Navigation Julie Phillippi Publications Ker, E.
Biochemistry and cell biology; Biomedical engineering
Junmei Wang
Associate Professor · School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Computational Chemistry and Biophysics, Drug Discovery and Development, Systems Pharmacology and Outcomes, specifically
1. Molecular mechanics force field (MMFF)
2. MMFF-based scoring function
3. computer-aided drug design
4. Molecular simulations of biomolecular systems and pro…
Kenneth Urish
Professor · Swanson School of Engineering
⭐ kip to main content Swanson School of Engineering Open Navigation Kenneth Urish Publications Cisneros, C. Open Forum Infect Dis , 8(1), ofaa593. JAMA Netw Open , 2(11), e1916008. 1001/jamanetworkopen.
Clinical sciences Biomedical engineering Sports science and exercise Microbiology Medical microbiology Biochemistry and cell biology
LiRong Wang
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Deep/machine learning, electronic medical records analysis, clinical trial emulation, target identification, chemogenomics/cheminformatics/bioinformatics database, signaling pathway, clinical data mining on mental disorders like substance abuse disorder, Alzheimer's Disease, TBI,…
Liang Zhan
Associate Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ Zhan Skip to main content Electrical and Computer Open Navigation Liang Zhan Biography Ph. patterns of non-target trials vary based on their position to previous target stimuli. 's disease using higher-order singular value decomposition. k Integrating Small and Large Language Models for Open-Domain …
Biological psychology Neurosciences Machine learning Clinical sciences Cognitive and computational psychology Clinical and health psychology
M. Najeeb Shafiq
Professor · University of Pittsburgh School of Education
⭐ Professor Shafiq teaches graduate courses in the economics of education, quantitative methods, and comparative education. He welcomes inquiries from prospective students and visitors.
The social and non-monetary benefits of education (including the effects of education on civic, moral, political, and socioemotional outcomes)
Education, poverty, and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries
Human capital decisions during childhood (schooling, labor an…
Mahmoud El Nokali
Associate Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ kali Skip to main content Electrical and Computer Open Navigation Mahmoud El Nokali Awards (1998) Outstanding Teacher in Electrical Engineering Award.
PhD, Electrical Engineering, McGill University, 1980
MS in Engineering in Electircal Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, 1976
BE, Electrical Engineering, Alexandria University, 1972
Manoj Kumar, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · School of Medicine
⭐ If you are interested in joining our research team, please contact me at Mak328@Pitt.edu.
In a modernized society, where it is becoming difficult to escape loud noises, exposure to loud noises is the leading cause of hyperacusis and tinnitus, the highly debilitating hearing disorders characterized by hyperexcitability of the brain cells. Hyperacusis, which is diagnose…
Marianne Seney
Associate Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ arianne Seney Skip to main content Bioengineering Open Navigation Marianne Seney Publications Barko, K. Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci , 5(3), 100476.
Biological psychology Neurosciences Clinical sciences Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences Genetics Clinical and health psychology
Marlo Perry
Research Associate Professor, Child Welfare Education and Research Programs · School of Social Work
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes. Students working with me will be involved in projects examining child welfare workforce issues around training, development, retention, and/or well-being.
Marlo A. Perry earned her Ph.D. in School, Community, and Clinical Child Psychology and her M.S.Ed. in Psychological Services from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Research Associate Professor in the School of Social Work’s Child Welfare Education and Research Programs (C…
Mary L. Ohmer
COSA Chair and Associate Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Community organizing
Violence prevention
Community solutions to violence and trauma
Community development
Equitable development
CBPR
Dr. Ohmer conducts research and evaluation on a variety of community-based projects and initiatives. Her research areas include civic engagement an…
Mary Rauktis
Research Associate Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ I would be interested in a doctoral student who would like to focus on child welfare, specifically residential or foster care, but also evaluating or developing in-home preventative interventions. Although this is an emerging area for me, I have been working within the animal-human intersection, ex…
Research on out-of-home care for children with a focus on social learning practices and climate
Human-animal interaction research
Interventions with vulnerable populations
I would be interested in a doctoral student who would like to focus on child welfare, specifically resident…
Melanie R. Weltman
Research Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Dr. Weltman's clinical and research interest is centered around optimizing medication therapy for patients with chronic kidney disease. She joined the faculty as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics in 2024. She is core faculty in the Cent…
Michele Manuel
U. S. Steel Dean of Engineering · Swanson School of Engineering
⭐ kip to main content Swanson School of Engineering Open Navigation Michele Manuel Michele Manuel is the U. Increasing the composition range of a novel τ 11 -Al 4 Fe 1. n of the Al-Co-Fe phase diagram over the whole composition range.
Michele Manuel is the U. S. Steel Dean of the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. Previously, she was Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. She received her PhD in Materials Science …
Nahmah Kim-Campbell
Associate Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ Kim-Campbell Skip to main content Bioengineering Open Navigation Nahmah Kim-Campbell Publications Butler, M. vents in Children and Young Adults With Thrombocytopenia at the Time of Continuous Kidney Replacement Therapy Initiation.
Clinical sciences Cardiovascular medicine and haematology Nursing Paediatrics
Neeraj Gandhi
Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ Experimental control of eye and head positions prior to head-unrestrained gaze shifts in monkey.
Neurosciences, Machine learning, Biological psychology, Ophthalmology and optometry, Allied health and rehabilitation science
BS, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 1988 - 1992; PhD, Bioengineering, UCSF & UC Berkeley (Joint Bioengineering Program), 1992 - 1997
Oliver Hinder
Assistant Professor · Industrial
⭐ Oliver Hinder Skip to main content Industrial Open Navigation Oliver Hinder Dr. e University of Pittsburgh, Oliver was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at Google in the Optimization and Algorithms group in New York.
Dr. Oliver Hinder's research focuses on continuous optimization, with a penchant for local optimization methods such as gradient descent. Dr. Hinder aims to develop reliable and efficient algorithms built on solid mathematical foundations. This research is motivated by applicatio…
Paul Andrew Johnston
Professor · School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting MS Students, Accepting PhD Students
Paul A. Johnston is a professor in the department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy at the University of Pittsburgh. He obtained a B.Sc. with Honors (2.1) (1978) and a Ph.D. (1983) in Biochemistry, from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. Subsequent po…
Peter Wipf
Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Peter Wipf is the Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He also serves as Director of the Combinatorial Chemistry Center (CCC) and the Center for Chemical Methodologi…
Philip E Empey
Associate Professor · School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting MS Students; Accepting PhD Students
Dr. Empey's laboratory employs a bench-to-bedside approach to study pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenomics mechanisms of variation in drug response. This includes wet lab studies of drug transporter interactions, drug quantitation in various biological matrices, and genotype-pheno…
Phillip W Schnarrs
Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Schnarrs is accepting PhD students for Fall 2025.
LGBTQ+ health, HIV prevention, behavioral and mental health, early life adversity and stress, population health studies, intervention trials, community engaged research, substance misuse and addiction, suicidality, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, identity-bas…
Prashant Kumta
Distinguished Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ co-principal investigators, and more than a dozen graduate students as well as half a dozen post doctoral fellows. Pulsed Current Electrodeposition of Silicon Thin Films Anodes for Lithium Ion Battery Applications. Electrodeposition of amorphous silicon anode for lithium ion batteries. e of Mg-Zn-Ca…
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona, 1987 - 1990
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona, 1987
B.Tech., Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), 1984
Pratap Khanwilkar
Director of Master's Programs and Professor of Practice · Bioengineering
⭐ ohnson Memorial Award: Outstanding Bioengineering Graduate Student, Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah.
Four decades of transformational contributions and leadership in innovative medical technology advancement including innovation and commercialization. 4 breakthrough technologies advanced to help patients in cardiac, neurologic, orthopedic and drug delivery: 1) Fully maglev centr…
Qihao Wu
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Dr. Qihao Wu joined the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor in February 2025. The Wu Lab explores two major research areas. The first focuses on gut microbial metabolism of xenobiotics, aiming to unravel how the gut micr…
Raman Venkataramanan
Professor · University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Venkat’s research focuses on optimizing drug therapy in pregnancy “prevention of preterm labor by optimizing the use of 17-hydroxyprogesterone caproate during pregnancy and Optimizing buprenorphine treatment in pregnancy”; and “optimization of use of medications in organ transpla…
Robert Gibbs
Vice Chair for Education, Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students, Accepting PhD Students
After 30 years of basic science research, I recently shut down my laboratory to focus on teaching and education. Now serving as vice chair for education in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, I know spend most of my time teaching, coordinating, and developing courses for o…
Robert WS Coulter
Associate Professor · School of Public Health
⭐ Dr. Coulter is able to consider PhD advisees for the 2025-26 academic year.
My mission is to eliminate substance use and violence inequities for LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) youth and young adults. To accomplish this mission, my research focuses on: (1) examining the complex social mechanisms producing SGMY health inequities; and (…
Sangyeop Lee
Associate Professor · Swanson School of Engineering
⭐ I have an opening for a PhD student. Please contact me with your resume or CV for the position.
My research has been focused on the fundamental aspects of energy transport at nano-to-microscales using theory and simulation. It includes the following topics:
Hydrodynamic phonon transport in high thermal conductivity materials
Thermal transport in partially disordered solids.…
Simone Brixius Anderko
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Dr. Simone Brixius-Anderko earned a diploma in molecular biology and a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Saarland University (Germany) in the laboratory of Prof. Rita Bernhardt. In collaboration with an industrial partner, she developed a sustainable biotechnological process to generate p…
Song Li
David and Betty Brenneman Professor · University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Dr. Li has established a strong research program centered at the interface of biology/immunology and biotechnology. His lab has developed several novel delivery systems that are aimed to solve major issues in his fields through improved understanding of the fundamental aspects of…
Stephen Lee
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science · School of Computing and Information
⭐ I am actively looking for self-motivated and talented students to join my research group. Please email me with your CV or drop by my office.
My research interests lie broadly in the area of distributed systems and cyber-physical systems (CPS), with an emphasis on sustainability and security. My current research explores distributed systems and built-environment sustainability, AI and large language models safety, and …
Subhadip Ghatak
Associate Professor · Bioengineering
⭐ bhadip Ghatak Skip to main content Bioengineering Open Navigation Subhadip Ghatak Publications Moulick, M. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Global Open , 10(10S), 40-41.
Clinical sciences Medical biotechnology Biochemistry and cell biology Biomedical engineering Genetics Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
Susheng Tan
Research Associate Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ Tan Skip to main content Electrical and Computer Open Navigation Susheng Tan Dr. orporated β-Ga 2 O 3 films made by pulsed laser deposition. crystalline Ga 2 O 3 films made by pulsed laser deposition. ride Nanosheets Prepared by Pulsed Laser Plasma Deposition.
Dr. Susheng Tan is currently a Research Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) with the role of Executive Microscopy Specialist of the Nanoscale Fabrication and Characterization Facility (NFCF) of the Gertrude E. and John M. Petersen In…
Sylvanus Wosu
Associate Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ tent Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Open Navigation Sylvanus Wosu Awards (2012) 2012 NAMEPA Outstanding MEP Award. In ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings , 2016-June. In ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings . In ASEE Annual Conference …
Ph.D., Engineering Physics; (Specialty: Experimental Nuclear Physics and Petroleum Geology), University of Oklahoma, 1988
M.S.E., Engineering Physics (Specialty: Quantum Electronics), University of Oklahoma, 1985
M.S., Industrial and Applied Physics (Specialty: Geophysics), Centr…
Tagbo Niepa
Assistant Professor · Chemical and Petroleum
⭐ Niepa Skip to main content Chemical and Petroleum Open Navigation Tagbo Niepa Biography Ph.
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Tatsuya Sakurahara
Assistant Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ tent Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Open Navigation Tatsuya Sakurahara Dr.
Dr. Tatsuya Sakurahara is the Director of the Risk Analysis and Reliability Engineering (RARE) Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Sakurahara’s research advances ri…
Thomas Piccone
Assistant Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ Model to predict the effect of composition on the high temperature ductility Of Steel.
Full-time Non-Tenure Stream (NTS) faculty. Sc.D., Metallurgy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986 - 1990
S.M., Metallurgy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982 - 1984
S.B., Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978 - 1982
Materi…
Travis Labrum
Associate Professor · University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting Graduate Students: Yes. Students working with me will be involved in projects examining family caregiving and representative payeeship for persons with psychiatric disorders.
Travis Labrum, LCSW, earned undergraduate degrees and an MSW from the University of Utah and a PhD in Social Welfare from the University of Pennsylvania. His primary research interests are issues affecting persons with psychiatric disorders and their families, including caregivin…
Velvet Blair Journigan
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
B.S., University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2004; Ph.D., University of Mississippi, 2010. Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Marshall University, 2016-2021; Assistant Professor (tenure-stream), University of Pittsburgh, 2021- .
Research in the Journigan laboratory focuses…
Wei Zhang
Assistant Professor · School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students; Accepting PhD Students
Dr. Wei Zhang joined the Department of Pharmaceutical Science at the University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor in October 2023. Prior to Pitt, he was an Assistant Professor in Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School.
He received his BS degree in Chemistry from Peking Unive…
Wen Xie
Joseph Koslow Endowed Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor · School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Dr. Xie's lab is currently having openings for MS and PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting students/scholars. All positions are NIH grant funded. Candidates with experience in liver disease, immunology, cancer biology, metabolomics and proteomics are particularly encouraged to apply. Pos…
Nuclear receptor-mediated transcriptional regulation of genes that encode drug metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters, and implications of this regulation in xenobiotic and endobiotic homeostasis and human diseases.
William Slaughter
Associate Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ tent Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Open Navigation William Slaughter Biography Ph.
Materials engineering Mechanical engineering Aerospace engineering Biomedical engineering Civil engineering Condensed matter physics
Ph.D., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, 1991
M.S., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, 1989
Sc.B., Mechanical Engineering, Brown Uni…
Wissam Saidi
Research Associate Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ n of High-Entropy Alloy Catalyst for Ammonia Decomposition and Ammonia Synthesis.
Physical chemistry Materials engineering Condensed matter physics Macromolecular and materials chemistry Nanotechnology Theoretical and computational chemistry
Xiang Qun Sean Xie
Professor · School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Dr. Xie has brought his expertise in AI machine-/deep-learning (ML/DL) chemogenomics systems pharmacology and medicinal chemistry drug design discovery into the cutting-edge translational R&D as well as clinical data mining and outcomes pharmacoanalytics. This includes GPU-accele…
Xiaochao Ma
Professor · University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
⭐ Accepting MS Students
Accepting PhD Students
Dr. Ma is a Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and a member of the Center for Pharmacogenetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. He obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Scie…
Xiayun Zhao
Associate Professor · Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
⭐ tent Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Open Navigation Xiayun Zhao Dr. For more details (including current openings), welcome to visit Dr. Development of open-architecture two-wavelength grayscale digital light processing for advanced vat photopolymerization. (American Chemical Society) N…
Dr. Zhao joined the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) as an assistant professor in August 2018. She received a B.S. from the Department of Precision Instruments in Tsinghua University. Before pursuing her Ph.D. at Georgia Tech, she worked full time as an instrumentation and control…
Zhi-Hong Mao
Professor · Electrical and Computer
⭐ il for Uniform Magnetic Field to Wirelessly Power Position-Free Targets. A Fast and Robust Diagnostic Method for Multiple Open-Circuit Faults of Voltage-Source Inverters Through Line Voltage Magnitudes Analysis. Landmark-Based Indoor Positioning for Visually Impaired Individuals. A Novel Mat-Based S…
PhD, Electrical and Medical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999 - 2005
SM, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998 - 2000
MEng, Intelligent Control and Pattern Recognition, Tsinghua University, 1995 - 1998
BS, Applied Mathema…
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Daniel I. Sullivan, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Sullivan's focus is on the role of epithelial-derived chemokines in the pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He works primarily with cell and animal-based models of disease in an effort to develop novel therapeutics for fibrosing lung diseases.
Dr. Sullivan is inte…
David Zielinski, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
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Janie Y. Zhang, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
My clinical research interest is in developing novel therapeutic strategies for advanced colorectal cancer through the development of industry-sponsored and investigator-initiated clinical trials. My translational research focuses on understanding the tumor immune microenvironmen…
John C. Byrd, MD
Professor of Medicine · School of Medicine
John C. Byrd, MD, is associate vice chancellor for cancer affairs, University of Pittsburgh, and director of UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, one of the nation’s premier National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers. In his role as director, Dr. Byrd will hold over…
John Evankovich III, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Professor in Environmental and Occupational Health; Medical Director, UPMC Jameson ICU · School of Medicine
Dr. Evankovich studies the molecular biology of lung injury. His laboratory is interested in the intersection of three molecular systems in the innate immune system, and how they influence inflammation and cell death pathways in the lung. The molecular systems are Damage Associat…
Jonathan Wolfe
Assistant Professor of Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine
Optimizing mechanical circulatory support
Improving outcomes after cardiac arrest
Decision making in cardiogenic shock
Public health and disparities
(Joyce) Chung-Chou H. Chang, PhD
Professor of Medicine; Professor of Biostatistics and Clinical & Translational Science; Director of PhD Faculty Affairs
Dr. Chang has a wide range of interests in theoretical and applied statistics, including time-to-event (survival) and longitudinal data analysis, missing data (competing risks and informative dropout), causal effect modeling (propensity score and marginal structural modeling), de…
A. Murat Kaynar, MD, MPH
Professor · Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Education & Training
Cerrahpaşa Medical School, University of Istanbul, MD
Columbia University, New York, NY, Internship in Surgery
University of Istanbul, Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medi…
A. R. West
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences · Department of Biological Sciences
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Aakash Gautam
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship, Department of Computer Science · School of Computing and Information
Prior to coming to SCI, Gautam was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at San Francisco State University. He completed his PhD in computer science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2021. His research lies at the intersection of hum…
Aala Abdelgadir
Assistant Professor · Department of Political Science
Aala Abdelgadir is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. She is a comparative scholar of identity and politics. In the European context, her research investigates the impact of institutional policies and societal attitudes on the meaningful inclusion of Muslim minorities. …
Aaron A. Kolski-Andreaco Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor - Devor Lab
The primary research interest of my lab is in defining the molecular mechanisms involved in the assembly, trafficking, localization and second-messenger-dependent regulation of the intermediate (IK) and small (SK) conductance, Ca<sup>2+</sup>-dependent K<sup>+</sup> channels. The…
Aaron Barchowsky
Professor · School of Public Health
I am an environmental, molecular toxicologist and the primary focus of my research over the past thirty-five years has been mechanistic investigation of how environmental contaminants, primarily metals, promote cardiovascular, pulmonary, and metabolic diseases. While best known f…
Aaron Batista
Professor
George M. and Eva M. Bevier Professor
Ph.D., Computational and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, 1994 - 1999
M.S.E., Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
B.S.E., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
B.A., Philosophy, University of Pennsylva…
Aaron Brown
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine · Department of Emergency Medicine
Aaron Brown, MD, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He serves as co-director of curriculum and of the resident scholarly activity panel for the UPMC/University of Pittsburgh emergency medicine residency program. Dr. Brown is an attend…
Aaron D. Campbell, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences · Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
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Aaron Henderson
Associate Professor · Film & Media Studies
Aaron Henderson's videos and installations examine the personal, cultural and political ramifications of all action, from intimate gestures to displays of super-human acrobatics. Well acquainted with movement, he threw himself into walls and off of platforms for STREB Extreme Act…
Aaron Henderson
Associate Professor; Department Chair · Studio Arts
Aaron Henderson's videos and installations examine the personal, cultural and political ramifications of all action, from intimate gestures to displays of super-human acrobatics. Well acquainted with movement, he threw himself into walls and off of platforms for STREB Extreme Act…
Aaron J. Ravelo Jimenez, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology · School of Medicine
Clinical: Minor stroke and TIA, secondary stroke prevention, intracerebral hemorrhage, artificial intelligence in stroke care
Research: Acute ischemic stroke therapies, advanced neuroimaging, AI applications in stroke diagnosis and management
Education: Teaching and mentorship of…
Aaron Nehamkin, MD, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology · School of Medicine
Lumbar punctures, Botox, nerve blocks, pain management, teleneurology
Resident, UPMC, Neurology
MD, Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
MS, University of Cincinnati, Physiology
BS, Vanderbilt University, Neuroscience & American Studies
Aaron R. Palmquist, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
BS, Villanova University, 2015
MD, Drexel University College of Medicine, 2018
Internship, General Surgery, Drexel University Hahnemann University Hospital, 2019
Residency, Family Medicine, Tower Health-Drexel Family Medicine, 2022
Fellowship, Sleep Medicine, University of Pittsb…
Aaron Roman
Director of the Doctor of Audiology Program, Associate Professor · School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Impact of hearing loss on cognitive processing, particularly in second language learning
Science of Teaching and Learning applications in the field of Communication Science and Disorders
Implementation and outcomes related to hearing health care policy
Aaron Sheon
Professor · Department of History of Art and Architecture
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Aaron Taylor MD
Assistant Professor · Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
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Aaron V. Mares MD
Associate Professor · Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
As Head Team Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Associate Medical Director of the Pittsburgh Marathon, and faculty in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, I enjoy working with the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship, teaching athlet…
Aarti Bishnoi, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology · Department of Ophthalmology
Dr. Aarti Bishnoi is a faculty ophthalmologist who earned her medical degree from the University of Delhi, completed Ophthalmology residency at PGIMER Chandigarh, and a two-year clinical fellowship in the UK National Health Service. She is interested in comprehensive ophthalmolog…
Aashish V. Jog MD
Clinical Associate Professor · Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Orthopedic Sports Injuries of the knee and shoulder including shoulder instability, rotator cuff tears, ACL and meniscus tears, patellar instability and maltracking and cartilage disorders of the knee
Foot and Ankle Surgery for ankle instability, ankle and hindfoot arthritis, bun…
Abby Lauren Olsen, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology · School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Clinical: Parkinson’s disease, multiple system atrophy, ataxia. Research: Glia in Parkinson’s disease, gene-environment interactions in Parkinson’s disease, animal models of Parkinson’s disease and other alpha-synucleinopathies. Education: Mentoring of physician-scientists.
Abby Overacre Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology · Department of Immunology
MicrobiomeImmunotherapy
Regulatory T cells
Microbiota-specific T Cells
Immunotherapy-refractory cancers
The Overacre Lab is interested in how the microbiota:immune system relationship impacts cancer progression and immunotherapeutic response in both local and distant tumors.
Gut …
Abby Phillips, DO
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences · Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
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Abby Singleton, DNAP, CRNA
Professor · Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
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Abdesalam Soudi
Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics · Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Abdesalam Soudi is a Teaching Associate Professor in the department of Linguistics in the Dietrich School, a Faculty Fellow with the Honors College, and a Faculty Affiliate with the African Studies Center at Pitt. Dr. Soudi is the primary investigator of a project on Humaniti…
Abigail Palmer, DO
Assistant Professor · Department of OBGYN
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Abimbola Adewumi BDS FDSRCS
Professor and Chair of Pediatric Dentistry, Program Director · School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Abi Adewumi is a Full Professor and was appointed Chair of the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine Department of Pediatric Dentistry in June, 2023. She is the current Interim Program Director. Dr. Adewumi was born in London, England, and received her BDS from t…
Abraham (Avromi) Kanal, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Kanal is an academic hospitalist and clinician educator in the Section of Hospital Medicine. His academic interests include medical education, clinical excellence, diagnostic reasoning, point-of-care ultrasound, interprofessional collaboration, and reflective clinical practic…
Ada O Youk
Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs · School of Public Health
Contributions to Public Health
Mentoring and teaching: My career has focused on mentoring and teaching while incorporating my research activities into my classes. My contributions have been to inspire students to learn and master statistics, regression modeling, design and resea…
Adam C. Soloff Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery; Associate Professor, Department of Immunology · Department of Immunology
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Adam C. Straub, Ph.D.
Professor · Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
Our research program seeks to elucidate the chemistry, biology and translational impact of “redox switches” in the cardiovascular system. Our work has revealed that cytochrome b5 reductase 3 (CYB5R3) operates as a critical redox switch in the cardiovascular system by reducing sub…
Adam Frisch
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine · Department of Emergency Medicine
Adam Frisch, MD, MS, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He serves as vice chair of the University of Pittsburgh Human Research Protection Office (HRPO), and as the research liaison for the UPMC/University of Pittsburgh emergency medic…
Adam Hebert
Teaching Assistant Professor · Film and Media Studies
Adam Hebert teaches courses in Film and Media Studies, English, Film Production, and Composition. He is also at work on a documentary film about a local game preserve and its animal inhabitants, an undertaking which has given him a chance to continue working with former students …
Adam J. Hsu, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
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Adam J. Lee
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, Professor, Department of Computer Science · School of Computing and Information
Dr. Adam J. Lee joined the Department of Computer Science in the fall of 2008. He received the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005 and 2008, respectively. Prior to that, he received his BS in Computer Science from Cor…
Adam K Leibovich
Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and College of General Studies · Physics & Astronomy
My research interests centers on the strong and weak interactions of the Standard Model. In particular, I use effective field theory techniques to study heavy quarks as a probe of these interactions, and to try to uncover physics beyond the Standard Model. I am also interested in…
Adam Kwiatkowski Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Cardiomyocyte adhesion and cytoskeletal organization · Department of Cell Biology
The human heart beats upwards of 100,000 times a day, and contractile forces place unique physical and regulatory demands on the protein complexes that join cardiomyocytes together to form a functional heart muscle. Mechanical coupling and chemical communication between cardiomyo…
Adam Kwiatkowski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor · Department of Cell Biology
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Cardiomyocyte adhesion and cytoskeletal organization
Adam Leibovich
· Office of the Provost and SVC
Adam Leibovich is the Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. He received his BA in Physics, magna cum laude, from Cornell University in 1992 and a PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1997.  From 1997-2000 he was a …
Adam Lowenstein
Professor · Film & Media Studies
Adam Lowenstein works on issues relating to the cinema as a mode of historical, cultural, and aesthetic confrontation. His teaching and research link these issues to the relays between genre films and art films, cinema and digital media, the politics of spectatorship, and the con…
Adam M. Brufsky, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine · Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Brufsky's research interests include novel clinical therapeutics for breast cancer, bone-breast cancer interactions and therapeutics, molecular biology of metastatic breast cancer, and novel management strategies for metastatic breast cancer. Dr. Brufsky currently directs the…
Adam Popchak
Associate Professor · School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Optimizing outcomes in the treatment of shoulder instability and rotator cuff tears.
Return to sport testing and decision making after musculoskeletal pathology
Methods to improve delivery of physical therapy interventions
Adam Sharbaugh, MD
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine · Department of Urology
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Adam Shear
Associate Professor, Department Chair, Department of Religious Studies · Religious Studies
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Adam Slivka, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine; Associate Chief, Clinical Affairs, Div. of GI, Hepatology & Nutrition; Medical Director, GI Service Line for UPMC Health System · University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
A Professor of Medicine, Dr. Slivka's research interests include non-invasive diagnosis of pancreaticobiliary cancer, development and testing of new drugs and devices used during ERCP, and the development of new strategies to treat pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. Evaluation a…
Adam Sohnen, MD, FACP
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
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Adam Tobias
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine · Department of Emergency Medicine
Adam Tobias, MD, MPH, FACEP, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and an emergency and EMS physician at UPMC. He serves as the emergency medicine clerkship director and is active in EMS and disaster preparedness. He is also an emergency …
Adam V. Kwiatkowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor · Department of Cell Biology
The proper organization of cell-cell contacts is required for tissue formation and function in multicellular organisms. At cell-cell contacts, specialized protein complexes link opposing cell membranes to physically couple cells. The cadherin-catenin complex, the core component o…
Adam Yates
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine · Department of Emergency Medicine
Adam Yates, MD, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an emergency physician at UPMC and associate chief of emergency services at UPMC Mercy.
Dr. Yates completed his undergraduate degree at Ohio Wesleyan University before earning h…
Addison Eldin
Teaching Assistant Professor · English
Addison Eldin is a teaching assistant professor in English. Her courses focus on the intersections of English (both composition and literature) and digital technology.
Digital narrative, composition, and pedagogy; computer history; game studies; media studies; technology studies
Adedoyin Ogunfeyimi
Assistant Professor · Department of English
Adedoyin Ogunfeyimi is an Assistant Professor of English. Ogunfeyimi holds a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and M.A. and B.A. in English from the University of Lagos in Nigeria. Before coming to the Pitt system (first Pitt-Bradford and now Pitt-Oakland…
Adele L. Towers, MD, MPH, FACP
Professor of Medicine · Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Towers provides primary and consultative care to older adults at the UPMC Senior Care-Benedum Geriatric Center located in UPMC Montefiore Hospital. Her interests are in healthy aging of the mind and body, and management of mood and cognitive disorders. She pioneered the use o…
Adele Moatti, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery · School of Medicine
Our ability to hear shapes our daily experiences, connecting us to the world and enriching our sensory perception. The profound impact of hearing loss extends beyond mere auditory impairment, affecting cognitive health, self-identity, and confidence to thrive in one's environment…
Aditi Ramchandra Naniwadekar, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Naniwadekar specializes in cardiology and is board-certified in clinical cardiac electrophysiology, cardiovascular disease, and internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She completed her medical degree at the University of Mumbai King Edward Memorial Hosp…
Aditi U. Gurkar
Associate Professor of Medicine
An Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dr. Gurkar’s interest is in understanding the biology of aging and age-related diseases. Her NIH-funded research focuses on identifying the signaling mechanisms that drive aging in response to endogenous DNA damage. By defining these molecular …
Aditi U. Gurkar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor · Department of Medicine
Our laboratory focuses on the mechanisms by which DNA damage promotes cellular senescence, aging and onset of age-related diseases. Our major research focuses on two inter-connected themes: (1) understanding the metabolic mechanisms that drive cellular senescence and aging (2) id…
Aditya Bhonsale, MBBS, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
MD, Seth G S Medical College & King Edward VIII Memorial Hospital, University of Mumbai
Residency, Seth G S Medical College & King Edward VIII Memorial Hospital, University of Mumbai
Residency, John Stroger Hospital
Fellowship, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Adolph J. Yates Jr. MD
Professor · Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
1. Various different approaches to cartilage restoration and their associated animal models.
2. Reduction of complications and readmissions after total joint arthroplasty
3. Risk adjustment models in total joint arthroplasty
4. Performance measures, adequacy of risk adjustment…
Adrian Lam
Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance · University of Pittsburgh School of Business
Empirical corporate finance and sustainable finance. Understanding how transition risks shape financial decisions, and whether these decisions facilitate the transition to a sustainable economy. Strengths and limitations of finance and financial incentives in tackling the enormou…
Adrian Lee, Ph.D.
Professor · Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
Dr. Adrian Lee is Professor of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology and Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. Dr Lee is the Pittsburgh Foundation Chair and Director of the Institute for Precision Medicine (IPM), a joint effort by the University…
Adrian Visoiu, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Dr. Visoiu has particular interest in delirium, dementia, care of the frail elderly, and osteoporosis; he is also actively engaged in improving Transitions of Care and coordinating care for the elderly.
Adriana Helbig
Professor, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and CGS · Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program
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Adriana I. Kovashka
Chair, Department of Computer Science, Associate Professor, Intelligent Systems Program · School of Computing and Information
Dr. Kovashka received her BA degrees in Computer Science and Media Studies from Pomona College, in 2008, and her PhD in Computer Science from The University of Texas in Austin, in 2014. She joined Pitt's Computer Science department in January 2015.
Her primary research area is c…
Adriana Larregina M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Dermatology; Professor, Department of Immunology · University of Pittsburgh
Skin Immunology
Role of neuroinflammation in the outcome of the skin immune function
Manipulation of neuroinflammation to treat chronic inflammatory skin disorders
Relevant Finds from our lab
For more than two decades, the focus of my research has been to understand how the ski…
Adriana Modesto Gomes Da Silva DDS, DMD, MS, PhD
Professor · School of Dental Medicine
As a unique Latin woman serving as a full-time professor and the first Assistant Dean of Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice at the Pitt School of Dental Medicine, I have a strong commitment to supporting and advancing the culture of diversity, equity, inclusion and cultural …
Adriana S. Leme, PhD
Research Associate Professor of Medicine · Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Leme’s research interests have focused on the biological processes leading to emphysema/COPD development. She has acquired expertise in evaluating lung pathobiology and predisposition to COPD in mouse models using various approaches, including exposure to cigarette smoke.
Cu…
Adrianna K. Wegrecki, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
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Adrianne Lazer, MD
Assistant Professor · Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Education & Training
Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship, UPMC
Anesthesiology Residency, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
MD, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Adrien M. Roberts RDH, MSDH
Assistant Professor · School of Dental Medicine
Adrien Roberts is a full-time Assistant Professor in the Dental Hygiene Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene from West Liberty University in 2004 and later returned to complete a Master of Science i…
Adrián E. Morelli
Professor, Department of Surgery; Professor, Department of Immunology; PMI Graduate Faculty · University of Pittsburgh
Immunology - Role of dendritic cells in peripheral tolerance and transplantation. Use of dendritic cells that have interacted with donor apoptotic cells or exosomes to prolong graft survival. Galectin-1. Human skin dendritic cells.
Gene Therapy - Generation of recombinant viral v…
Afonso C. Silva
Professor & Endowed Chair in Translational Neuroimaging · Department of Neurobiology
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Afshin Beheshti
Professor of Surgery and of Computational & Systems Biology · University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Afshin Beheshti, PhD is a Professor of Surgery and of Computational & Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School. He serves as Director of the Center for Space Biomedicine at the Trivedi Institute for Space and Global Biomedicine and as Associate Director of the McGow…
Agnes Koczo, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
I had extensive training in women’s health during my internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine training, and my clinical and research focus is in women’s cardiovascular disease. In particular, I focus on investigating the underlying mechanisms and clinical sequalae (via cardi…
Agnieszka Bialy
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine · Emergency Medicine
Agnieszka Bialy, MD, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and an emergency physician at UPMC.
Dr. Bialy earned her medical degree at Saint George's University. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at Wyckoff Heights Medical…
Ahdy Nassif, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor · Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
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Ahmad Pahlavan Tafti
Director of the Pitt HexAI Lab, Assistant Professor · School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Ahmad P. Tafti is an Assistant Professor of Health Informatics in the Department of Health Information Management within the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, with a secondary appointment at the Intelligent Systems Program (ISP). He is …
Ahmed Awad, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor · Department of Neurological Surgery
Ahmed Awad, MD, joined the UPMC Department of Neurological Surgery in 2025 from Stanford University. As clinical assistant professor and director of functional neurosurgery at UPMC Hamot, Dr. Awad brings exceptional expertise in treating movement disorders, medically refractory e…
Ahmed Dallal
Associate Professor · Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fields of Research: Communications engineering; Electronics, sensors and digital hardware; Atomic, molecular and optical physics; Machine learning; Engineering practice and education; Electrical engineering
Ahmed El Sergani BDS, PhD, MOMS RCSEd
Assistant Professor · School of Dental Medicine
morphometrics and statistical shape analyses in the diagnostics, objective assessment of risk and outcome, as well as planning for shape-altering clinical care in congenital and acquired orofacial deformities
Ahmed Elshahat
Clinical Associate Professor of Business Administration · Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Elshahat joined the faculty of the Katz School in 2018. Previous academic positions include Associate Professor of Finance, Endowed Chair of Banking, and Director of the MBA Programs at the American University in Cairo and Assistant Professor of Finance at Bradley University.…
Ahmed Ibrahim
Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems · School of Computing and Information
Ahmed is a Teaching Associate Professorin the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in 2016. He also holds two M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science, one from the University of Kentucky in 2014 and one…
Ahteshamul Haq
· Civil & Environmental Engr
I am a PhD researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering. My research focuses on advancing sustainable water and wastewater treatment systems through systems-level analysis and optimization. I sp…
Aileen Brasacchio
· School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Aileen Brasacchio has several years of experience in the Schools of the Health Sciences, specifically the Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine.
Master’s in Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Aileen Chou DPT, PhD
Assistant Professor · University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Dr. Chou’s research focuses on improving care for individuals with rehabilitation needs and highlighting the impact of rehabilitation clinicians in both healthcare and community settings. Her research interests include the translation of evidence-based findings into clinical prac…
Aimee Pickering, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Pickering is a clinician-educator and affiliated faculty at the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing (CP3). She is a board-certified internist, providing clinical care as a primary care physician at UPMC General Internal Medicine, Oakland and as an inpatient teach…
Aisha P. Ullah, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor · Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Education & Training
Anesthesiology Residency, UPMC
Hepatic Transplant Anesthesiology Fellowship, UPMC
MD, West Virginia University School of Medicine Morgantown
Intraoperative portal decompression techniques
Risks vs. benefits of veno-veno bypass
Aisha R. Saand, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
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Ajay D. Wasan, MD, MSc, MA
Vice Chair for Pain Medicine · Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Dr. Wasan is the Vice Chair for Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at UPMC and a Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and Psychiatry in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He has particular expertise in inte…
Ajay Khurana, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
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Ajay Niranjan
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery · Neurological Surgery
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Ajitesh Ojha, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology · School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Ojha serves as the UPMC Neurology Residency Program Director. Clinically, he is a neurohospitalist and is actively involved in the neurology consult and general neurology inpatient teams while also rounding at some of the community hospitals. Both roles allow him to work exte…
Akanksha M. Bean Psy.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor · School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Bean is a Pediatric Neuropsychologist at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She provides comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations on an outpatient and inpatient basis to children with neurodevelopmental and acquired medical conditions that affect brain development an…
Akin Sayrak
Teaching Assistant Professor of Business Administration · University of Pittsburgh, Pitt Business
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Akira Sekikawa
Professor, Director, T32 Cardiovascular Epidemiology Training Program; Director, Ultrasound Research Laboratory; Faculty in Epidemiology · School of Public Health
Contributions to Public Health
Nutritional Interventions and Cognitive Aging (ACE Trial) (R01 AG074971): I am leading the NIH-funded ACE randomized controlled trial that investigates the effects of S-equol supplementation on arterial stiffness, brain white matter lesions, and co…
Alaa Shalaby, MD
Professor of Medicine
Dr. Shalaby’s research interests include utilization of implantable devices for and biomarkers of risk for sudden cardiac death as well as utilization of devices for assessment and treatment of congestive heart failure and sleep related breathing disorders. Dr. Shalaby practices …
Alan Chu MD
Assistant Professor · University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Dr. Chu is a physiatrist and is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, electrodiagnostic medicine, and sports medicine. He is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Board Certifications: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitaton, Elec…
Alan Domat, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Before joining the Pitt faculty in 2015, Dr. Domat conducted research on NSTEMI management at the Heart and Vascular Institute in Pittsburgh, as well as on brain tumor suppression in Pitt's Department of Neurology.
Alan George
Professor, Department Chair
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Alan Hirschman
Professor · Swanson School of Engineering
Biography:
- PhD, Electrical Engineer-Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1978
- BS, Physics, BS New York University, 1968
Clinical sciences; Biomedical engineering; Computer vision and multimedia computation
Alan Watson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor · Developmental Biology
Systems approaches to biologic questions are becoming more important as scientists strive to understand how their favorite molecule or cell fits into the broader picture of organismal development, tissue organization or pathogenesis. Exciting technologies have emerged that enable…
Alan Watson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor · School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology, Center for Integrative Organ Systems (cenIOS)
View Dr. Watson's faculty profile at Dept of Cell Biology
Tool development for imaging large biologic systems
Alan Wells
Professor · University of Pittsburgh
Biochemistry and cell biology, Oncology and carcinogenesis, Clinical sciences, Immunology, Medical physiology, Medical biochemistry and metabolomics
Alan Wilson MD
Assistant Professor · Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr. Alan E. Wilson is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in primary hip and knee replacement, direct anterior approach hip replacement, robotic partial and total knee replacement, and complex revision hip and knee replacement. He is an assistant professor of orthpaedic surgery at…
Alayna K. Butcher, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences · Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
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Albert Lin MD
Professor · Orthopaedic Surgery
Serves as Director of the Pittsburgh Shoulder Institute, with Dr. Mark Rodosky. My basic science research involves collaborative work with the University of Pittsburgh Orthopaedic Robotics Laboratory (ORL) and the Biodynamics Laboratory (BDL) focusing on cadaveric biomechanical …
Alberto Vazquez
Associate Professor
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Alda Maria Gonzaga, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics · University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Dr. Gonzaga joined Pitt faculty in 2004. focusing on adolescent and women's health. In 2006, she established the Progressive Evaluation and Referral Center (PERC), housed within the UPP General Internal Medicine clinic, to accept patients with chronic health concerns transferring…
Aleesha Kainat, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Kainat's clinical interests include hospital medicine and cardiovascular disease. Her practice emphasizes guideline-directed therapy, safe transitions of care, and individualized treatment strategies. She values the balance of intellectual challenge and humanism in hospital m…
Alejandra Torres Velasco
Assistant Professor · Chemical and Petroleum
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Alejandro Almarza
Professor, Associate Professor · Swanson School of Engineering
Ph.D, Bioengineering, Rice University, 2001 - 2005
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Florida State University, 1998 - 2001
Biomedical engineering
Dentistry
Sports science and exercise
Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics
Public health
Clinical sciences
Alejandro J Almarza PhD
Professor · School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Almarza’s primary research interest is in the area of temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) and the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). He is trying to understand the link between joint damage and pain, as well as regenerative therapies for the joint tissues.
Dr. Almarza’s research …
Aleksandra E. Olszewski, MD, MA
Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics, Department of Critical Care Medicine · Bioethics
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Aleksandra E. Olszewski, MD, MA
Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics · Department of Critical Care Medicine
Supporting high-quality communication and family-centered care during critical illness
Improving the shared decision-making process for families and teams
Reducing health disparities for critically ill children, including through addressing bias and other structural determinants …