Ishan Barman is an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and with a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research focuses on bioengineering, optics, and spectroscopy, with an eye to developing integrative photonics solutions to complex problems in biological research and diagnosis. He seeks to advance photonics methods for applications in clinical diagnosis, and on the comprehensive characterization of biomolecules, the investigation of pharmaceutical drugs and their interaction with biological systems, and on rapid measurements in microfluidic platforms.