Contact Information
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Intel Alumni Endowed Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Center for Genomic Diagnostics, Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Program Leader, Cancer Center at Illinois, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Lab
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Director, Center for Pathogen Diagnostics, ZJU-Illinois DREMES Program
Recent Publications
Bhaskar, S., Liu, W., Shepherd, S., Wijewardena, D., Tibbs, J., & Cunningham, B. T. (2026). Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence using Integrated High Refractive Index Nanodiamond-Plasmonic Gold Cryosoret Nano-assemblies for Ultrasensitive Detection. In A. Adibi, & M. L. Brongersma (Eds.), Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures XVI Article 139090B (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13909). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3075842
Bhaskar, S., Umrao, S., Lee, H. K., Tibbs, J., Bacon, A., Shepherd, S., Ayupova, T., Ciloglu, F. U., Liu, L., Tan, A., Chen, W. C., Nguyen, M. T. T., Scannell, M. G., Aygun, U., Parlatan, U., Zhang, C., Kohli, M., Adami, G. R., Badar, W., ... Cunningham, B. T. (2026). Point of care molecular cancer diagnostics. Lab on a chip, 26(10), 2948-3001. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5lc01014d
Cunningham, B. T., Tibbs, J., Umrao, S., Song, T., Shepherd, S., Xiong, Y., Zhou, L., Demirci, U., & Wang, X. (2026). DNA origami capture and tethering of intact viruses and label-free digital detection by photonic crystal enhanced scattering microscopy. In N. T. Shaked, & O. Hayden (Eds.), Label-free Biomedical Imaging and Sensing, LBIS 2026 Article 1386303 (Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 13863). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3078488
Lee, H. K., Lim, J., Shepherd, S., Nguyen, M. T. T., Akin, L., Bacon, A., Sidavi, Y., Shurgalin, M., Cobi, A., Nikolayenko, A., Fuflyigin, V., Bashir, R., Wang, X., & Cunningham, B. T. (Accepted/In press). A dual-port, smartphone-linked, pocket-size fluorimeter for rapid molecular diagnostic assays at point-of-care. IEEE Sensors Journal, 26(14), 20538-20555. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2026.3693175
Lee, H., Li, S., Liu, L., Wang, W., Ayupova, T., Tibbs, J., Kim, C., Fang, Y., Do, M. N., & Cunningham, B. T. (2026). Deep learning-enabled digital resolution molecular diagnostics in photonic resonator absorption microscopy. In T. Dai, J. Popp, & M. X. Wu (Eds.), Photonic Diagnosis, Monitoring, Prevention, and Treatment of Infections and Inflammatory Diseases 2026 Article 1382903 (Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 13829). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3076516