Rashid Bashir

Rashid Bashir is a Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, holding appointments in Bioengineering, Mechanical Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. He serves as Dean of the Grainger College of Engineering and is affiliated with multiple institutions including the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and Coordinated Science Laboratory.

• Bioengineering
• Mechanical Science and Engineering
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
• Molecular and Integrative Physiology

His research spans nanoscale and microscale engineering, with a focus on CRISPR-based pathogen detection, nanopore biosensors, point-of-care diagnostics, and biohybrid robotic systems. Recent work includes amplification-free pathogen detection in blood samples and graphene-based multimodal sensors.

Key awards include National Academy of Medicine Member (2023), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2024), AAAS Fellow (2011), AIMBE Fellow (2010), and the AIMBE Professional Impact Award (2021). His work has been highlighted in 16 news outlets and cited in 22 Mendeley readers.

He leads the Health Care Engineering Systems Center and Biomedical and Translational Sciences initiatives, driving translational research at the intersection of engineering and biology.