Biography
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
BE (E&E), University of Auckland, 1995-97
M.S. (ECE), Cornell University, 1998-2001
Ph.D.(ECE), Cornell University, 2001-2004
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENT
Research Scientist, Northern California Institute for Research and Education
Concurrent with:
Assistant Professor of Radiology, UCSF, San Francisco 2006-08
Assistant Professor of Computer Science in Radiology, Weill Cornell, 2008-
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS (medical and scientific societies)
* International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2003-present
* IEEE Computer Society, 2004-present
* Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2006-present
* Program Committee of Intl. Conference on Computer Vision 2007
* Program Committee of European Conference on Computer Vision 2008
* Program Committee of Engg. in Medicine and Biology Society 2008
TEACHING
Spring 2007 Medical Imaging Informatics, UCSF Radiology
Spring 2006 Medical Imaging Informatics, UCSF Radiology
RESEARCH SUPPORT - CURRENT
NIH R21 (Exploratory Research Grant) (PI: Raj) 10/1/2008-10/1/2010
-Total Amount: $463,000
-Title: Bayesian parallel imaging for arbitrarily sampled MR data using edge-preserving spatial priors
-Percent effort: 60%
This project will develop accelerated MR acquisition schemes using parallel imaging from multiple coils, and reconstructed using graph cut energy minimization techniques.
NIH P41 (PI: Weiner) 4/1/2008 3/31/2013
-Title: Resource for MRI of Neurodegenerative Disorders
-Total Amount: $6,000,000
-Percent effort: 25%
-Role: Principal Investigator of Image Reconstruction Project
This study will develop new and improved methods for imaging of neurodegenerative diseases with a special emphasis on MRI at high magnetic fields.
RESEARCH SUPPORT - PAST
NIH R01 (PI: Laxer) 02/01/08 - 02/01/13
-Title: MRI of Epilepsy
-Percent effort: 50%
-Role: Co-investigator
The goal of this project is to develop MRI-based imaging markers for epilepsy.
Department of Defense (PI: M Weiner)
04/01/05 - 01/31/08
-Title: 4 Tesla MRI for Neurodegenerative Diseases
-Role: Co-Investigator
-Percent effort: 15%
Research goal is to determine the pathophysiology of various neurodegenerative diseases.
Veterans Affairs (PI: Weiner)
04/01/05 - 5/31/08
-Total Amount: $501,625
-Title: Effects of Gulf War Illness on Brain Structure, Function, and Metabolism: MRI/MRS at 4 Tesla
-Percent effort: 40%
The goal of this project is to test the overall hypothesis that subjects with Gulf War Illness (GWI) have metabolic, structural, or functional changes in the basal ganglia (a site of proposed brain injury in GWI) and other regions of the brain, which are not accounted for by confounds such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and alcoholism.
NIH/NIA P01 AG12435 (PI: Chui)
09/30/94 - 05/31/08
-Title: Aging Brain: Vasculature, Ischemia, and Behavior.
-Total amount: $243,429
Neuroimaging Core B (PI: Weiner)
-Title: 1H MRSI and Perfusion MRI of SIVD-Project 2
-Total amount: $192,633
-Percent effort: 25%
-Role: Co-investigator
This project addresses four major areas of inquiry in SIVD: role of ongoing ischemia; role of infarction in neuron loss; role of disconnection of subcortical and cortical structures in SIVD; and relative differences in subcortical and cortical changes between SIVD and AD.
EXTRAMURAL PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Serving on Program Committee of several professional conferences:
* Program Committee of Intl. Conference on Computer Vision 2007
* Program Committee of European Conference on Computer Vision 2008
* Program Committee of Engg. in Medicine and Biology Society 2008
Ad hoc referee for:
European Conference on Computer Vision
IEEE Trans Knowledge and Data Engineering
IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
IEEE Sensors Journal
International Conference on Computer Vision
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
IEEE Trans Medical Imaging
European Conference on Computer Vision
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference
Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference
