People

Shella Keilholz, PhD

Principal Investigator

B.S. in Physics - Missouri University of Science and TechnologyPh.D. in Engineering Physics - University of VirginiaPostdoc in Neuroimaging - National Institutes of Health

Email: shella@gatech.eduLinkedIn, Twitter

Wenju Pan, MD, PhD

Research Professor


Ph.D. in Radio Physics from the Chinese Academy of Science

My study interests are focusing on the intrinsic brain functional activity with multimodality methods.


Email: wpan5@emory.edu 

Theodore J. LaGrow

PhD Student, Georgia Tech Electrical and Computer Engineering

MBA Student, Georgia Tech


M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia TechAssociates Degree in Teaching Higher Education from Georgia TechB.S. in Computer and Information Science from the University of OregonB.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oregon

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

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

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

LinkedIn

Kimela Fongeh


Undergraduate Student, Emory University

2nd year in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology


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.


Email: kfongeh@emory.edu 

LinkedIn

Nafiysa Sessoms


Project ENGAGES Student


I am working on establishing a preprocessing pipeline for novel MR sequences.

Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Scholars

Nan Xu, PhD

Eric Maltbie, PhD

Taylor Bolt, PhD

Deloitte

Graduate Students

Nmachi Anumba, PhD

Eli Lilly

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

Vahid Khalilzad, PhD

Scientist


Maysam Nezafati, PhD

Research professor



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

Undergraduate Students

Michael Bian

Medical school



Derek Prusener

Mary Kate Gale




Yasmine Bassil

Rick Saha

Ila Viennau

Isak Thomas

Ayende Ibere

Hisham Temmar

Amanda Strezo

Nick Green

Veena Chittamuri

Andrea Reyes-Rodriguez