James Friend

James Friend leads the Medically Advanced Devices Laboratory in the Center for Medical Devices at the University of California, San Diego, a professor in both the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering and the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine. He spent 14 years abroad as a faculty member in Japan and Australia before returning to the US. His research interests are principally in exploring and exploiting acoustic phenomena at small scales, mainly for biomedical applications. He currently supervises a team of 9 PhD students and 3 post-doctoral staff. Over the years, I have been able to publish over 280 peer-reviewed research publications (H-factor = 47) and 32 patents in process or granted, completed 33 postgraduate students and supervised 21 postdoctoral staff, and been awarded over $29 million in competitive grant-based research funding. He most recently co-founded Arna Systems, a diagnostics company, Steeroflex, an endovascular intervention technology company, and Infinergy, a rapidly rechargeable battery company. Among other awards, he is a fellow of the IEEE from 2018 and was awarded the IEEE Carl Hellmuth Hertz Ultrasonics Award from the IEEE in 2015.