Lab Members

Principle Investigator

Anastasio_MarkMark 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

 
fjb2Frank J. Brooks
Research Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Ph.D. in Physics, Washington University in Saint Louis (2008)
fjb@illinois.edu
Research: Statistical image analysis and in vivo lung imaging.
 
 
 
UmbertoUmberto Villa
Research Scientist 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 Scientist of Bioengineering
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University (2017)
sp33@illinois.edu
Research: Deep learning, machine learning, and image processing.
 
 

Graduate Students

Zachary Markow (co-advised with Dr. Joseph Culver, Optical Radiology Laboratory, WUSTL)
B.A. in Physics and Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis (2014)
zemarkow@wustl.edu
Research: Human and small animal neuroimaging, methods for computational image reconstruction and imaging system optimization, diffuse optical tomography, optical imaging technology, cognitive neuroscience.
 
 
 
 
Jason Granstedt
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech (2017)
B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Minor in Math and Computer Science), Virginia Tech (2015)
jasonlg@illinois.edu
Research: Deep learning, data mining, and signal processing applied to medical imaging problems.
 
 
 
 
Xiaohui Zhang
B.E. in Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, China (2018)
xiaohui8@illinois.edu
Research: Deep learning, machine learning in medical imaging, neuroimaging.
 
 
 
 
 
Fu Li
B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University, China (2016)
fuli2@illinois.edu
Research: Ultrasound computed tomography, machine learning in medical imaging.
 
 
 
 
 
Kaiyan Li (co-advised with Dr. Hua Li, Bioengineering Department, UIUC)
B.E. in Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University (2019)
kaiyanl2@illinois.edu
Research: Machine learning, deep learning, image quality assessment, and imaging science.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rucha Deshpande (co-advised with Dr. Barani Raman, BME, WUSTL)
B.Tech in Biomedical Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India (2012) 
M.S. (by research) in Biomedical Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India (2015)
r.deshpande@wustl.edu
Research: Machine learning in medical imaging.
 
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 

 

Dimitrios Gotsis

B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Minor in Mathematics and Computer Science), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2019)
gotisis2@illinois.edu
Research: Deep learning, machine learning, medical imaging.
 
 
 
 

Panpan Chen

B.S. in Photoelectric Information Science and Engineering, Anhui Normal University, China (2018)
M.S. in Acoustics, Tongji University, China (2022)
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, Inverse problems, Machine learning.

 

 

Kevin (Hsuan-Kai) Huang

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

 

 

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Alumni

Varun Kelkar (2019-2023), Research Scientist at Analog Devices, Boston, USA
Neha Goswami (2018-2023), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the 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), Postdoctoral Researcher, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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.