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Biography
Prof. Irudayaraj has a bachelor’s in Biosystems Engineering from India; an M.S. in Computer Sciences and an M.S. in Biosystems Engineering from the University of Hawaii; and a Ph.D. in Biological Engineering from Purdue University. He has taught at Utah State University, The Pennsylvania State University, and Purdue University, and moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bioengineering in 2017. His laboratories are located at the Biomedical Research Center in the Mills Breast Cancer Center at Carle Foundation Hospital and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL). He is heavily vested in interdisciplinary research and plays a key role at the Cancer Center at Illinois and is presently working to establish a Superfund Center in Toxicology. He is a faculty of the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine and holds Courtesy appointments in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Comparative Biosciences, and Agricultural and Biological Engineering. He is an affiliate faculty member of the Carl R. Woese Institute of Genomic Biology, Beckman Institute, and MNTL.
Research Topics
- Bio-Micro and Nanotechnology
- Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Engineering
- Bioimaging at Multi-Scale
Academic Positions
- Founder Professor of Bioengineering, Department of Bioengineering, UIUC, Urbana, IL (2017 – present)
- Associate Director of Shared Resources, Cancer Center at Illinois, UIUC, IL (2019 – present)
- Professor, Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2005 – 2017)
- Associate Professor, Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
- Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, Utah