I am currently a research fellow at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School under Professor Michael Chee in the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. I was previously a research fellow at Harvard University with Professor Randy Buckner in the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science under the mentorship of Professor Polina Golland (Medical Vision Group at CSAIL, MIT) and Professor Bruce Fischl (Laboratory for Computational Neuroimaging, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, HMS). I obtained my B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Complex behaviors in animals are subserved by distributed networks of brain areas that interact and compete with each other. My research capitalizes on emerging approaches to measure the structural and functional architecture of the human brain. By characterizing the brain systems of healthy human subjects, I seek to understand how these systems support cognition. This might in turn shed light on how and why these systems become disrupted under extreme variations from the norm, such as certain psychiatric diseases and total sleep deprivation. More specifically, I have been developing algorithms to register, segment and analyze the human brain using functional, diffusion and structural magnetic resonance images. |