Lab Members – Computational Imaging Science Laboratory

Principal Investigator

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 Villa

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Oden Institute, UT Austin

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Emory University (2012)

uvilla@oden.utexas.edu

Research: Image reconstruction, photoacoustic tomography, and inverse problem.

Seonyeong 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 program 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.

Panpan Chen

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)

kaiyiy2@illinois.edu

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.

Bozhen Zhou

M.S. in Electronic and Information Engineering, Tsinghua University, China (2025)

B.S. in Precision Instrument, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (2022)

bozhen2@illinois.edu

Research: Deep Learning, Computed Tomography, Inverse Problem.

Jinhua Xu

M.S. in Imaging Science, Washington University in St. Louis, USA (2024)

B.A. in Mathematics, Statistics, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, USA (2021)

jinhua.x@wustl.edu

Research: Photoacoustic tomography, Computational imaging, Machine learning in medical imaging.

Group photos

Alumni

Fu Li (2019-2024), Software Engineer, Pony AI, Fremont, USA
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), St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Team Lead for Image Quantification and AI (IQAI)
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 Learning & 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.