Dean of the Grainger College of Engineering

Additional Campus Affiliations

Dean, Grainger College of Engineering
W. W. Grainger Chair, Bioengineering
Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, Materials Research Lab
Professor, Health Care Engineering Systems Center, Coordinated Science Lab
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Professor, Neuroscience Program
Affiliate, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Recent Publications

Koprowski, K., Lim, J., Van, A. B., Wester, M., Waldhoff, T., White, K., Kumar, J., Valera, E., & Bashir, R. (2026). Gram Typing Bacteria Panels in Whole Blood Using a Biphasic Duplex-Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay. ACS Sensors, 11(3), 2366-2375. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.5c04177

Watson, G. L., Staples, G., Carver, R., Bhargava, A., López-Espina, C., Schmalz, L., Ali, F., Antkowiak, P. S., Azad, S., Berghea, R., Chawla, L., Crisp, M., Dagan, A., Davila, F., Davila, H., DeMarco, C., Doodlesack, A., Espinosa, A., Evans, N. S., ... Shapiro, N. I. (2026). Interpretability of an FDA-authorized AI/ML sepsis diagnostic tool improved by SHAP values. JAMIA Open, 9(1), Article ooag020. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooag020

Bacon, A., Lee, H., Koprowski, K., Hoang, H., Odicho, N., Sidavi, Y., Wang, W., Do, M. N., Valera, E., Bashir, R., & Cunningham, B. T. (2025). Rapid Multiplex Detection of Viral Pathogens in Whole Blood Using Microfluidic Sample Processor and Smartphone-Linked Handheld Instrument. International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Transducers, (2025), 906-909. https://doi.org/10.1109/Transducers61432.2025.11109294

Chen, S., Huang, S., Son, J., Han, E., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Huang, P. Y., King, W. P., van der Zande, A. M., & Bashir, R. (2025). Detecting DNA translocation through a nanopore using a van der Waals heterojunction diode. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(18), Article e2422135122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2422135122

Chen, S., Zhang, Y., King, W. P., Bashir, R., & van der Zande, A. M. (2025). Extension Doping with Low-Resistance Contacts for P-Type Monolayer WSe2 Field-Effect Transistors. Advanced Electronic Materials, 11(9), Article 2400843. https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202400843

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