Dr. Arul Jayaraman

Dr. Arul Jayaraman, EG95, is the Executive Associate Dean, College of Engineering and Ray B. Nesbitt Endowed Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani (India) and an MS from Tufts University, where he worked with Professor Edward Goldberg on folding of Phage T4 tail fibers. He completed his doctoral work at the University of California at Irvine with Professor Thomas Wood and worked on engineering biofilms for excluding sulfate-reducing bacteria. He joined Professor Martin Yarmush’s group at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral fellow in 1998 to work on modulation of the acute phase response in the liver. He was promoted to Instructor in Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School in 2000 and developed a new thrust in living cell microarrays. 

Dr. Jayaraman joined Texas A&M in 2004, was tenured in 2010, and promoted to Professor in 2013, and served as department head from 2019 - 2022. His lab works on investigating the interaction between the intestinal microbiota and immune cells in the intestinal tract. He has won numerous awards including the Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching award, the Engineering Genesis award at Texas A&M, and Distinguished Alumnus Award from BITS, Pilani. He is an elected fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a Texas A&M University Presidential Impact Fellow. Dr. Jayaraman’s lab is funded by the National Institutes of Health and DARPA.