Faculty & Research Scientists
Armin Iraji
Research Scientist
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Iraji is a signal processing and data scientist interested in data mining, machine learning, and image analysis.
David Bridwell
Past Faculty: Research Scientist
Dr Bridwell researches how distinct brain networks integrate sensory processing.
Jaiyu Chen
Research Assistant Professor
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Chen characterizes the genetic underpinnings of neurobiological traits of various mental disorders.
Jessica Turner
Professor of Psychology
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Turner investigates the genetics underlying brain structure changes in chronic schizophrenia.
Jingyu (Jean) Liu
Jingyu (Jean) Liu
Associate Professor of Computer Science
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Liu’s research focuses on exploring the relationship between genetics and the brain.
Oktay Agcaoglu
Oktay Agcaoglu
Research Scientist
TReNDS Center
Dr. Agcaoglu’s research interests are analysis of brain data in frequency domain, statistical signal analysis and brain lateralization.
Robin Morris
Professor, Regents Executive Officer for Entrepreneurship
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Morris’s current projects include intervention studies focused on studying treatment outcomes of children and adults with dyslexia and reading disabilities
Robyn Miller
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Miller studies brain dynamics, dynamical functional connectivity, and high-dimensional signal processing.
Rogers Silva
Research Scientist
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Silva creates new algorithms for deep unsupervised learning to analyze joint information and shared variability in multi-modal datasets.
Sergey Plis
Sergey Plis
Associate Professor of Computer Science
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr Plis develops computational instruments to analyze multimodal data.
Victor Vergara
Research Assistant Professor
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Vergara uses multi-modal data and deep learning to study TBI, addiction, and other neurological disorders.
Vince Calhoun
Founding Director & Distinguished University Professor
TReNDS Center
Dr. Calhoun develops techniques for making sense of complex brain imaging data.
Yuhui Du
Research Scientist
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Du’s research interests include developing new methods for analysis of brain functional networks to identify biomarkers in clinical populations.
Zening Fu
Research Scientist
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Fu develops novel algorithms for tracking dynamic brain connectivity.
Graduate Students & Postdocs
Ashkan Faghiri
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Ashkan studies high order statistical models of the brain.
Behnam Kazemivash
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
My research interests include computer vision and machine/deep learning.
Bradley Baker
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Bradley studies machine learning and its intersections with complex applications and theory.
Debbrata Kumar Saha
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Debbrata’s research interests include optimizing model orders of MR data.
Haleh Falakshahi
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Haleh’s research interests include machine learning and data science.
Harshvardhan Gazula
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Ishaan Batta
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Ishaan is a PhD student at Georgia Tech studying electrical and computer engineering.
Kuaikuai Dan
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
I develop algorithms to enhance signal to noise ratios.
Md Abdur Rahama (Munna)
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Munna’s research interests include pattern recognition in dynamic connectivity models.
Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Md. Mahfuzur Raman
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Research interests include machine learning application to structural and functional MRI.
Mohammad Sendi
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Mohammad’s research interests include applying machine learning to DBS.
Mustafa Salman
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Salman’s research interests include machine learning applied to digital signal.
Noah Lewis
Noah Lewis
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Rajikha Raja
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. Raja’s research interests include multi-modal fusion of MR data.
Riyasat Ohib
Graduate Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia Institute of Technology
Riyasat studies machine learning and sparse representation of learning algorithms.
Thomas DeRamus
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
TReNDS Center & Georgia State University
Dr. DeRamus’ work focuses on functional connectomics above traditional BOLD frequency values.
Software Engineering
Helen Petropoulos
Analyst Programmer
TReNDS Center
Helen is intersted in the the auto-analysis and pre- and post- processing pipelines of sMRI, dMRI, and fMRI.
