Lab Members

Principle Investigator

Anastasio_Mark
Mark Anastasio
Head and Professor of Bioengineering
Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering
Ph.D. in Medical Physics, The University of Chicago (2001)
Biography and Research
maa@illinois.edu

Research Faculty 

Umberto
Umberto Villa
Research Associate Professor of Oden Institute, UT Austin
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Emory University (2012)
uvilla@oden.utexas.edu
Research: Image reconstruction, photoacoustic tomography, and inverse problem.
 

 

SeonyeongParkSeonyeong Park
Research Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University (2017)
sp33@illinois.edu
Research: Photoacoustic tomography, Deep learning, machine learning, and image processing.
 
 

Graduate Students 

Sourya Sengupta
M.S. by Research from University of Waterloo, Canada (Joint prog with Vision science and Systems Design Engineering)(2020)
B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, India (2018)
souryas2@illinois.edu
Research: Medical imaging, deep learning.
 
 
 
 
Refik Mert Cam
B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey (2020)
rcam2@illinois.edu
Research: Photoacoustic tomography, machine learning in medical imaging, computational imaging, inverse problems.
 
 
 
 
 
Gangwon Jeong
B.S. in Energy and Resources Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea (2014)
M.S. in Energy and System Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea (2016)
gangwon2@illinois.edu
Research: Ultrasound computed tomography, machine learning in medical imaging.
 
 
 
M.S. in Acoustics, Tongji University, China (2022)
B.S. in Photoelectric Information Science and Engineering, Anhui Normal University, China (2018)
panpanc2@illinois.edu
Research: Photoacoustic tomography, image reconstruction, inverse problems.
 
 
 
Muzaffer Özbey (co-advised with Dr. Hua Li, Bioengineering Department, UIUC)
 
M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Turkey (2021).
B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Turkey (2018)
mozbey2@illinois.edu
Research: Deep Learning, Medical Imaging, Image Synthesis.

 

 Kaiyi Yang
 
 B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2020).
 Research: Image reconstruction algorithms, photoacoustic tomography, computed tomography.

 

Kevin (Hsuan-Kai) Huang

B.S. in Physics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2018)
hkhuang3@illinois.edu
Research: Photoacoustic tomography, machine learning in medical imaging.

 

Zhuchen Shao (co-advised with Dr. Hua Li, Bioengineering Department, UIUC)
 
M.E. in Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University, China (2024).
B.S. in Automation, Dalian Maritime University, China (2021)
 Research: Deep learning, Medical Imaging.
 

Group photos

Alumni

Fu Li (2019-2024)
Kaiyan Li (2019-2024), Research Scientist, Meta, Bellevue, USA
Rucha Deshpande (2017-2024), FDA, Great Falls, USA
Jason Granstedt (2017-2024), ORISE Fellow, FDA, Great Falls, USA
Xiaohui Zhang (2019-2024), Data Scientist, Bayer, St Louis, USA
Varun Kelkar (2019-2023), Research Scientist, Analog Devices, Boston, USA
Neha Goswami (2018-2023), Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Sayantan Bhadra (2017-2023), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the NIH, USA
Joseph Kuo (2020-2022), Deep Learning Software Engineer, Intel, USA
Aashiesh Avachat (2021-2022), Research Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Shenghua He (2016-2021), Senior Research Scientist, PAII Inc., USA
Siddharth Muralidaran (2020-2021), Machine Leaning & Computer Vision Intern, Calico Life Sciences, USA
Chao Wang (2019-2021), Research Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center, USA
Ke Chen (2019-2021), Assistant Professor, China University of Petroleum, China
Weimin Zhou (2016-2020), Assistant Professor, Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Joemini Poudel (2014-2019), Research Scientist, Philips
Yujia Chen (2014-2019), Research Scientist, Oculus Research
Luca Antonio Forte (2017-2018), Senior Research Engineer, Philips, Netherlands
Yang Lou (2012-2018), Research Scientist, Oculus Research
Thomas Matthews (2011-2017), Deep Learning Research Scientist, White Rabbit.ai Inc.
Huifeng Guan (2011-2017), Software Engineer, Google
Trey Garson (2010-2017), Research Engineer, Monsanto Corporation
Kenji Mistsuhashi (2012-2015), Senior Image Algorithm Engineer, Huawei Technologies
Kun Wang (2007-2015), Lead Signal and Image Processing Engineer, GE Healthcare
Fatima Anis (2012-2015), Research Scientist, KLA-Tencor.
Qiaofeng Xu (2008-2014), Research Imaging Scientist, Eletka.
Chao Huang (2008-2014), Imaging Scientist, Hologic Inc.
Qiwei Sheng (2013-2015), Assistant Professor,  California State University at Bakersfield
Robert Schoonover (2011-2014).
Alex Sawatzky (2012-2013), Research scientist at General Electric, Munich
Adam Zysk (2008-2012), Vice President of Operations, Diagnostic Photonics
Yin Huang (2001-2008), Medical Physicist, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Cheng-Ying Chou (2005-2007), Associate Professor, National Taiwan University
Jin Zhang (2002-2007), Lead Reviewer/Medical Physicist, FDA
Daxin Shi (2001-2006), Manager of Medical Imaging Research, Shenyang Campo Medical Imaging Technology Co., Ltd.