Core Faculty
Affiliate Faculty
Texas Medical Center Affiliates
![Kelly Bijanki, PhD](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2024-06/bijanki.jpeg?itok=qXNKqyUu)
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Director of Intracranial Monitoring Research, Baylor College of Medicine
![photo of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative faculty](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-08/britz-gavin-1376686840.jpg.jpeg?itok=Rgi1Hk2D)
Chair, Houston Methodist Department of Neurosurgery;
Professor of Neurosurgery, Academic Institute;
Director, Center for Regenerative and Restorative Neurosurgery;
Co-director, Neurological Institute
![photo of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative faculty](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-08/Do_Monte_v3_200x200.jpg.jpeg?itok=uGFAcIMk)
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Anatomy, UT Health
![Rice Neuroengineering TMC Affiliate](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2022-09/Gabbiani_0.png.jpeg?itok=rSwDqcEa)
Professor of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
![photo of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative faculty](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2021-04/faraji-amir-1457610776.jpg.jpeg?itok=S2sAO5f9)
Neurosurgeon, Houston Methodist Hospital and Researcher, Houston Methodist Research Institute
![photo of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative faculty](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2021-12/Golanov_Eugene.jpg.jpeg?itok=G8QpsAa5)
Research Professor of Neurosurgery, Academic Institute
Full Research Member, Research Institute
Director, Cerebrovascular Research, Department of Neurosurgery
Houston Methodist
Weill Cornell Medical College
![photo of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative faculty](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-01/1473435205296.jpeg?itok=X3Z83RzD)
Professor and Chair in Psychiatry, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Baylor College of Medicine
![photo of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative faculty](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-12/zulfi%20haneef_0.jpeg?itok=q_06XCz5)
Assistant Professor, Neurology-Neurophysiology, Baylor College of Medicine
![Sarah Heilbronner, PhD](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2024-06/Heilbronner_scope2%20copy.png.jpeg?itok=gPf8mYoj)
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
![photo of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative faculty](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-01/191204_Neuroengineering_Portraits%200035%20%281%29.jpg.jpeg?itok=hue8IUaL)
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience - Baylor College of Medicine
![photo of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative faculty](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-01/DORINA%20PAPGEORGIOU_0.jpeg?itok=d3ee4pLr)
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Neuroscience and Translational Biology & Molecular Medicine - Baylor College of Medicine,
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
![Image of Nicole Provenza](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2024-06/nprovenz.jpeg?itok=5GqhlxFJ)
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
![photo of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative faculty](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2021-12/razavi.jpeg?itok=lIvZlc6A)
Associate Professor Medicine-Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine
![Jacob Reimer, Baylor College of Medicine](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2023-09/Jacob_reimer.jpeg?itok=n1Cce-cI)
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
![photo of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative faculty](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-01/sameer.jpeg?itok=kJENiF7S)
Professor, Vice-Chair of Clinical Research, and Cullen Foundation Endowed Chair of Neurosurgery - Baylor College of Medicine, McNair Scholar
![photo of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative faculty](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-01/Francois.jpeg?itok=MAZw09BX)
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, McNair Scholar- Baylor College of Medicine and
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering - Rice University
![photo of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative faculty](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2020-08/NitinTandon_0.jpg.jpeg?itok=Io7jrHMo)
Professor, The Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery - UT Health;
Director, Epilepsy Surgery Program - Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center
![photo of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative faculty](/sites/g/files/bxs2791/files/styles/thumbnail_small_170x170/public/2022-09/yau-jeffrey.jpeg?itok=hBJ9U0FF)
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine