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., 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. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2026.3693175
Liu, W., Bhaskar, S., Wang, W., Tibbs, J., & Cunningham, B. T. (2026). Quenching attenuation and fluorescence augmentation using plasmonic gold nanourchin and dielectric photonic crystal hybrid interface for mercury sensing. Optics Express, 34(2), 2994-3006. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.580173
Tibbs, J., Umrao, S., Song, T., Anirudhan, V., Shepherd, S., Wolhaupter, K., Zheng, M., Wiggins, S., Rong, L., Hisey, C. L., Demirci, U., Wang, X., & Cunningham, B. T. (2026). Selective capture and digital counting of intact HIV pseudovirus using designer DNA nets, tethered motion, and photonic resonator interferometric scattering microscopy. APL Bioengineering, 10(2), Article 026101. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0289982