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Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics Faculty

Adam Anderson

Research Focus: Developing and applying magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods to assess tissue structure and function with a focus on developing better methods for estimating the orientation and microstructural properties of white matter fibers in the central nervous system
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Justin Baba

Research Focus: Optical biosensing; non-invasive diagnostics; motion corrected imaging and sensing
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Audrey Bowden

Research Focus: Biophotonics tools for applications in early detection, diagnosis and therapy for cancer; development and deployment of low-cost, high-performing point-of-care technologies for rural and global health applications
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Daniel Brown

Research Focus: Intravascular measurement of therapeutic endpoints and catheter/ablation tracking to target delivery of brachy/chemotherapy
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Amanda Buck

Research Focus: hemodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, MRI, cardiovascular imaging
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Brett Byram

Research Focus: Medical ultrasound; signal processing; elasticity imaging; ultrasonic imaging and beamforming
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Catie Chang

Research Focus: Functional neuroimaging techniques and applications; signal processing and computational analysis
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Andre Churchwell

Research Focus: Engineering Design Education
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Christos Constantinidis

Research Focus: Neuroengineering, deep brain stimulation, working memory, cognitive development, prefrontal cortex
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Bruce Damon

Research Focus: Development and application of magnetic resonance imaging methods for studying healthy and pathologic skeletal muscle structure and function
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Zhaohua Ding

Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging and integrated studies of brain structure and function
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Mark Does

Research Focus: MRI, neuroimaging, cardiac imaging, MR microscopy
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Dario Englot

Research Focus: Brain networks in epilepsy and other neurological disorders; Functional and anatomic neuroimaging; Human electrophysiology; Functional neurosurgery
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Yurui Gao

Research Focus: Small animal and human MRI imaging (diffusion/functional MRI), medical image processing and analysis.
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John Gore

Research Focus: Development and application of biomedical imaging techniques
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Kevin Harkins

Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging, computational modeling, optimization
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Frederick Haselton

Research Focus: Microfluidic transport of particles, multi-spectral quantum dot-based retinal imaging, DNA logic operations for viral diagnostics, molecular basis of corneal regeneration both in homeostasis and wound repair
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Yu Huang

Research Focus: Software Engineering, Human Factors, Medical Imaging, Eye Tracking, Mobile Sensing, Open Source Software, Software-hardware Co-design
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Yuankai Huo

Research Focus: Biomedical data representation, biomedical image processing, machine learning, data science
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E. Duco Jansen

Research Focus: Laser-tissue interaction; optical neural interfaces; modulation of neural activity using infrared laser light; cellular effects of laser-induced stimuli; application of light, lasers and optical technology in medicine and biology
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Karen Joos

Research Focus: Applications of optical techniques for ophthalmic surgery. Primary research areas use of optical coherence tomography.
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Bennett Landman

Research Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging & statistical analysis with emphasis on medical imaging.
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Matthew Lang

Research Focus: Biological motors, cell signaling and immunology
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Ilwoo Lyu

Research Focus: Computer vision, surface registration, computational neuroanatomy, shape analysis
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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

Research Focus: Applications of optical techniques for diagnosis of pathology. Primary research areas use of fluorescence and Raman spectroscopics for cancer and precancer detection.
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Michael Miga

Research Focus: Image-guided surgery and intervention, computational modeling for therapeutic applications, soft-tissue mechanics, biotransport, and inverse problems in therapeutics and imaging.
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Justus Ndukaife

Research Focus: Nanophotonics, microfluidics, novel bio-inspired soft actuators and robots
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Gregor Neuert

Research Focus: Quantitative Systems Biology of signal transduction and gene regulation of coding and non-coding RNA
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Jack Noble

Research Focus: Medical image processing including image segmentation as well as other techniques related to computer-aided surgery.
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Jeffry Nyman

Research Focus: Diagnosing bone disease with MRI and Raman spectroscopy, Effect of diabetes on the fracture resistance of bone, Regulators of bone toughness and fracture healing
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Ipek Oguz

Research Focus: Medical image analysis, image segmentation, machine learning, image registration
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Reed Omary

Research Focus: Image-guided drug delivery for cancer; interventional radiology
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K. Arthur Overholser

Research Focus: Engineering education.
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Cynthia B. Paschal

Research Focus: Engineering education; academic success; Former areas: MR angiography, MRI of lungs, cardiopulmonary MRI techniques and applications, CT
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Richard Alan Peters

Research Focus: Digital image processing, computer vision, Digital signal processing, computer graphics, software engineering, electromagnetic theory, applied mathematics
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Wellington Pham

Research Focus: Biomedical Imaging with focus on molecular probes and biomarkers for cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.
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Baxter Rogers

Research Focus: Neuroimaging analysis, with a focus on developing and applying image processing methods for functional and structural MRI.
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Mikail Rubinov

Research Focus: ​​Integrative models of large-scale neural data; Transcriptomic basis of neural individuality; Communication in complex neural systems; Neuropsychiatric connectivity phenotypes
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Eric Spivey

Research Focus: Microfluidics for single-cell imaging and analysis, design of ion source for high-resolution MALDI imaging mass spectrometry.
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Yuankai (Kenny) Tao

Research Focus: Optical imaging systems for clinical diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring in ophthalmology, gastroenterology, and oncology
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Sharon Weiss

Research Focus: Light-matter interaction, silicon photonics, porous silicon biosensors, nanotechnology, nanocomposite materials
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D. Mitchell Wilkes

Research Focus: Digital signal processing, image processing and computer vision, digital signal processing hardware, structurally adaptive systems, sonar, signal modeling
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