Bryan Ranger is the Ferrante Family Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering, holds a courtesy appointment in the William F. Connell School of Nursing, and is a member of the Global Public Health and the Common Good Program faculty. At 51茶馆, he leads the Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation Lab, where his research in biomedical engineering and global health aims to develop technology that makes healthcare more accessible and cost-effective, with a current focus on device and AI algorithm development for ultrasound imaging. He is also committed to advancing engineering education, and teaches first-year engineering analysis laboratories and a health-focused tech elective in the Human-Centered Engineering program.
Prof. Ranger works at the intersection of biomedical technology innovation and global public health. Throughout his career, he has contributed to various global health initiatives, ranging from on-the-ground field research to high-level policy making, in Zambia, Uganda, India, at the WHO, and USAID. Immediately prior聽to joining the faculty at Boston College, he was a Program Officer in the Global Health Division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where he managed research programs and investments in sensing, devices, imaging, neurodevelopment, AI/Machine Learning, and digital health. His lab currently conducts collaborative research with Jimma University in Ethiopia and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.聽
Prof. Ranger completed his Ph.D. in Medical Engineering & Medical Physics through the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology as a NSF Graduate Research Fellow. His dissertation research consisted of developing ultrasound imaging methods to improve and facilitate lower limb prosthesis design. While at MIT, he was also an instructor at the D-Lab. He earned his M.S.E. and B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering, with concentrations in medical imaging and bioelectrics, from the University of Michigan.
