People
Shella Keilholz, PhD
Principal Investigator
Email: shella@gatech.eduLinkedIn, Twitter
Wenju Pan, MD, PhD
Research Professor
My study interests are focusing on the intrinsic brain functional activity with multimodality methods.
Email: wpan5@emory.edu
Maysam Nezafati, PhD
Research Professor
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South FloridaM.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South FloridaM.Sc. in Materials Science from The Royal Institute of TechnologyB.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Tehran
Studying learning mechanisms using various modalities such as fMRI and EEG. Brain network analysis in awake rodents using fMRI
Email: maysam.nezafati@bme.gatech.eduLinkedIn, Twitter
Eric Maltbie, PhD
Postdoc
Email: emaltbi@emory.eduLinkedIn
Nan Xu, PhD
Postdoc
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from CornellM.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from CornellB.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of RochesterB.A. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester
Nan is a computational neuroscientist with interdisciplinary research training. Her current research lies in the intersection of statistical signal processing and learning, applied mathematics, and neuroscience. Please see her webpage for more details.
Email: im.nan.xu@gmail.comWebsite
Vahid Khalilzad, PhD
Scientist
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vahid studies neurophysiological basis of resting state fMRI signal by investigating suppression of cortical slow rythms. He, particularly looks into the relationship between cortical rythms and measured quasi periodic patterns (QPPs) and functional connectivity in canonical brain function networks.
Email: vkhalilzad@bme.gatech.eduTwitter
Theodore J. LaGrow
PhD Student, Georgia Tech Electrical and Computer Engineering
MBA Student, Georgia Tech
Working in the computational side of the lab, I disentangle 4D fMRI signals for biomarker characterization in whole brain data. I am particularly interested in the topics of network switching in neurodegenerative diseases, how deep reinforcement learning can qualify datasets in MRI, and multimodal data fusion.
Email: tlagrow3@gatech.eduLinkedIn, Github, Twitter, Website
Nmachi Anumba
PhD Candidate, GT/Emory Biomedical Engineering
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Penn State UniversityB.A. in Spanish from Penn State UniversityMy research interests involve studying the effects of locus coeruleus activity on large-scale resting-state brain signals, such as quasi-periodic patterns and the BOLD global signal, using optogenetic-fMRI.
Email: nanumba3@gatech.eduLinkedIn, Twitter, Website
Harry Watters
PhD Candidate, Emory Neuroscience
B.A. in Biology from the University of Utah
Interests: Cell-type specific contributions to the BOLD fMRI signal. Spatiotemporal dynamics of the default mode network and task positive network in altered states of consciousness.
Email: hwatter@emory.edu LinkedIn
Lisa Meyer-Baese
PhD Student, GT/Emory Biomedical Engineering
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Tech
As a biomedical engineer my work so far focuses on integrating functional magnetic resonance imaging and optical imaging to understand brain wide spontaneous neuronal activity.
Email: lmmb3@gatech.eduLinkedIn, Website
Lauren Daley
PhD Student, GT/Emory Biomedical Engineering
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Florida State University
I am currently interested in characterization and optimization of low or zero TE pulse sequences for fMRI scans, such as Zero Echo Time (ZTE) or Multiband SWIFT. I hope to implement these sequences in multi-modal awake and resting- state animal studies, possibly with field mapping technology.
Email: lauren.daley@emory.eduLinkedIn
Michael Bian
Undergraduate student, Emory University
3rd year in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology
(Co-advised with Dr. Dieter Jaeger)
My research interests are in using fMRI to image mice during locomotion, with a long term goal of working in fMRI-facilitated music therapy.
Email: michael.bian@emory.edu
Abia Fazili
Undergraduate student, Emory University
2nd year in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology and English and Creative Writing
I am interested in using fMRI in conjunction with optogenetic technology to better understand neuronal dynamics across the whole brain.
Email: abia.fazili@emory.edu
Kimela Fongeh
High School Student
(Project ENGAGES scholar)
As a student from Project ENGAGES, I work to analyze data from QPPs from rat brain fRMI while the rats are under anesthetics and relate my results to a form anyone can understand.
Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral Scholars
Taylor Bolt, PhD
Deloitte
Graduate Students
Xiaodi Zhang, PhD
Varian Medical Systems
Amrit Kashyap, PhD
Brain Simulation Section
Behnaz Yousefi, PhD
Postdoc
Anzar Abbas, PhD
AiCure
Jacob Billings, PhD
Institute for Scientific Interchange, Turin
Shiyang Chen, PhD
Intuitive Surgical
Hyunkoo Chung, MS
TeraRecon
Sadia Shakil, PhD
Institute of Space Technology,
Islamabad
Garth Thompson, PhD
Shanghai Tech
Waqas Majeed, PhD
Siemens
Matt Magnuson, PhD
Josh Grooms
EagleView
Other Researchers
Corrie Smith
Research Specialist
Lenka Dvorakova
Visiting PhD Student, University of Eastern Finland in Molecular Medicine
Perrin Clavijo
Research specialist
Michaël Belloy, PhD
Stanford University
Claudia Hafeneger, PhD
Xiaohong Shen, PhD
Stony Brook
Kalah Byrd
Georgia Institute of Technology
Claudia Hafeneger, PhD
Xiaohong Shen, PhD
Stony Brook
