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Vince Calhoun
Founding Director & Distinguished University Professor
TReNDS Center
The founder and visionary of the TReNDS center, Dr. Calhoun develops techniques for making sense of complex brain imaging data.
Sergey Plis
Associate Professor of Computer Science
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Plis's research goals lie in developing computational instruments that enable knowledge extraction from observational multimodal data collected at different temporal and spatial scales.
Jingyu (Jean) Liu
Associate Professor of Computer Science
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Liu’s research focuses on exploring and identifying genetic effects on or association with brain anomalies related to mental illnesses and disorders..
Jessica Turner
Professor of Psychology
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
My research interests fall under “what can we know from cognitive neuroimaging and genetic data,” and “how can we represent what we know from these experiments?”
Robin Morris
Professor, Regents Executive Officer for Entrepreneurship
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
I specialize in developmental and clinical neuropsychology, developmental dyslexia, reading and attention related disabilities, acquired brain injury, neurogenetic disorders.
Eric Verner
Associate Director of Innovation
TReNDS Center
Eric’s mission is to develop real-world applications from research at the TReNDS center.
Jeremy Bockholt
Manager & Analyst Programmer
TReNDS Center
H. Jeremy Bockholt works as the manager of application development at TReNDS.
Oktay Agcaoglu
Research Scientist
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
His research interests are analysis of brain data in frequency domain, statistical signal analysis and brain lateralization.
Brittny Miller
TReNDS Center Manager
TReNDS Center
Brittny Miller has worked with the TReNDS team in many capacities including facilitating multiple neuroimaging research studies, software development for the Collaborative Imaging and Neuroinformatics Suite (COINS) platform, project management, and more.
Bradley Baker
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
I am primarily interested in machine learning and its intersections with complex applications and theory.
Ishaan Batta
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
I am a PhD student at Georgia Tech studying electrical and computer engineering.
David Bridwell
Past Faculty: Research Scientist
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
I am interested in how apparently distinct brain networks integrate and shape sensory processing.
Jiayu Chen
Research Assistant Professor
TReNDS Center
My research interests center on imaging genomics, aiming to characterize the genetic underpinnings of neurobiological traits that relate to phenotypic manifestations pf mental disorders.
Thomas DeRamus
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. DeRamus' work focuses on functional connectomics above traditional BOLD frequency values, and multi-modal fusion of functional MRI and model-free diffusion-weighted connectomics to analyze structure/function interactions in the brain.s.
Yuhui Du
Research Scientist
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
My research interests include developing new methods for analysis of brain functional networks, finding biomarkers for clinical purposes, and exploring brain function using multi-modality images.
Kuaikuai Duan
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
My research focuses on imaging genetics, with the aim to identify the underlying genetic factors related to abnormal imaging features/behavioral performances.
Ashkan Faghiri
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
I am a PhD student majoring in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. In my research projects, I am developing new data analysis methods using ideas from both electrical engineering and statistics fields.
Haleh Falakshahi
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
My research interests include machine learning, data science, and statistical analysis of network data.
Alex Fedorov
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Zening Fu
Research Scientist
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
I am interested in developing novel algorithms for tracking the dynamic brain connectivity and exploring the underlying physiological meaning of brain dynamics.
Harshvardhan Gazula
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Armin Iraji
Research Scientist
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
My background is data science and signal processing including machine learning, data mining, image processing, and time-series analysis.
Behnam Kazemivash
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Georgia State University and I work as a graduate research assistant at the TReNDS center under the supervision of Prof. Vince Calhoun.
Noah Lewis
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Robyn Miller
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Robyn is interested in brain dynamics, spatiotemporal dynamics, fMRI, dynamic connectivity, high-dimensional signal processing, statistical learning, deep learning
Maria Misiura
Social Media Strategist & Designer
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
I help communicate and publicize the TReNDS center's research, events, and achievements across a variety of digital platforms.
Helen Petropoulos
Analyst Programmer
TReNDS Center
I am interested in auto-analysis and pre- and post- processing pipelines of structural MRI, diffusion MRI, and functional MRI.
Jovoni Pharr
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
I enjoy building solutions in Electronics, Materials Science, and Intelligent Systems.
Shile Qi
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Jamin Ragle
Neuroiformatics Engineer
TReNDS Center
I am a solutions-oriented systems wrangler with a wide breadth of knowledge and experience. My primary areas of experience are on infrastructure design, systems operations and facilitating platform dedicated to improving research outcomes Research Institutions.
Md Abdur Rahama (Munna)
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
My research interest broadly includes high dimensional data processing, machine learning and deep learning.
Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
The major focus of my research is developing machine learning tools and techniques to understand brain dynamics in neuroimaging (fMRI and sMRI) data.
Rajikha Raja
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
My research interests center around neuroimaging with a focus on developing new techniques for fusion of multimodal MR data and analyzing diffusion MR images to identify biomarkers for various brain disorders.
Hooman Rokham
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Debbrata Kumar Saha
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Currently I am developing one common classification framework to select optimal model order for dynamic functional connectivity states in Resting state fMRI Data.
Mustafa Salman
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
My interests lie in digital signal and image processing, machine learning, data science and generally any problem that can be solved using a computer.
Mohammad Sendi
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
I am a Ph.D. student double-majoring in Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) studying deep brain stimulation.
Rogers Silva
Research Scientist
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
With a focus on combining novel deep learning architectures with flexible subspace structure models, Dr. Silva seeks to identify coupled brain biostructures across impaired and control populations, using heterogenous multimodal data in a truly unprecedented, synergistic fashion.
Victor Vergara
Research Assistant Professor
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Vergara is an electrical engineer focused on neuroimaging data analysis with 10+ years of experience in research and development.