We are a multi-cultural team of researchers from multiple disciplines including electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, imaging science, and computer science, unified in the mission of advancing the field of imaging for improving the imaging and treatments of patients.
Principal Investigator
Abhinav K. Jha, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Imaging and of Radiology
Biography
Email: a dot jha at wustl dot edu (Without spaces. Please replace dot with . and at with @)
Graduate students
Yan Liu, MS
PhD student, Imaging Science PhD program
Master of Engineering in Control Science and Engineering (2020), Xi’an Jiaotong University
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Information (2017), Xi’an Jiaotong University
Research Interests: Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, SPECT and PET, Image Analysis
Email: liu dot yan at wustl dot edu
Kweku S. Enninful, BSc
PhD student, Department of Biomedical Engineering
BSc. Biomedical Engineering (2017), University of Ghana
Research Interests: Image reconstruction, SPECT system modeling, Quantitative Imaging, Machine Learning in Medical Imaging.
Email: e dot kweku at wustl dot edu
Huitian Xia, BS, MS
PhD Student, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Bachelors and Masters in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis (2022)
Research Interests: Tumor Segmentation, PET system modeling, Generalizability of Machine Learning models, Image Reconstruction
Hobbies: Watching films and anime, Playing basketball
Email: huitian at wustl dot edu
ZeZhang Yang
PhD student, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
Research Interests: Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Task-based image denoising, SPECT.
Hobbies: Driving, Visiting museums, Listening to classical music.
Email: y dot zezhang at wustl dot edu
Uttkarsh Chaurasia, M.Tech.
PhD Student, Imaging Science PhD program
Master of Technology (2023) and Bachelor of Technology (2022) in Computer Science and Engineering (2023), National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India
Research Interests: Deep Learning in Medical Imaging, Tumor segmentation, SPECT and CT
Hobbies: Playing soccer and basketball, gym workouts, long drives, exploring new cities and their food, listening to R&B and hip-hop music, attending concerts.
Email: uttkarsh at wustl dot edu
Fardeen Ahmed, BSc
PhD student, Department of Biomedical Engineering
BSc. Biomedical Engineering (2022), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Research Interests: Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, SPECT Reconstruction, Medical Image Processing, Deep Learning
Hobbies: Playing Chess, Soccer, watching anime.
Email: a dot fardeen at wustl dot edu
Janice Tania, BS
PhD student, Department of Biomedical Engineering
BS in Biomedical Engineering (2024), National Taiwan University
Research Interests: AI in Medical Imaging, Image Reconstruction, SPECT and CT.
Hobbies: Photography, travelling and playing basketball
Email: j dot tania at wustl dot edu
Wenxuan Xue, BS
PhD student, Department of Biomedical Engineering.
BS in Biomedical Engineering(2024), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: SPECT and PET, Patient-specific acquisition protocol, Deep learning in Medical Imaging.
Hobbies: traveling, hiking, and cooking.
Email: wenxuan dot x at wustl dot edu
Shrikanth “Sri” Yadav, MS
PhD Student, Imaging Science PhD program
MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2021), North Carolina State University
Bachelor of Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2018), PES Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Medical Imaging, Image analysis
Hobbies: Endurance sports (running, biking, and swimming), and hiking
Email: shrikanth at wustl dot edu
Research Technician
Nuri Choi, BS
BS in Computer Science and Mathematics at Washington University
email: nuri dot choi at wustl dot edu
Lab alumni
| Name | Role in lab | Current position |
| Zitong Yu, PhD | PhD student, 2019-2024 | ORISE Fellow, FDA (link to profile) |
| Rithihas Nagisetti | Summer Intern 2024, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | Selected for admission to Washington University with Dean’s Select Fellowship |
| Zekun Li, PhD | PhD student, 2019-2024 | Physics Algorithm Engineer, United Imaging (link to profile) |
| Janice Tania | Summer Intern 2023, National Taiwan University | Selected for admission to Washington University with McDonnell and Dean’s Select fellowship (link to profile) |
| Md Ashequr Rahman, PhD | PhD student, 2018 – 2023 | Data Scientist, Caris Life Sciences (link to profile) |
| Ziping Liu, PhD | PhD student, 2018 – 2023 | Deep learning data scientist, Spectral AI (link to profile) |
| Uttkarsh Chaurasia | Summer Intern 2022 NIT Hamirpur, India. | Selected for admission to Washington University with Dean’s Fellowship (link to profile) |
| Sainath Vavilapalli | Summer intern 2022 IIT Bombay, India | Continuing studies at IIT Bombay, India |
| Madison Rogers | Summer intern 2021 Arizona State University | Field Clinical Specialist at BIOTRONIK, St. Louis, MO (link to profile) |
| Claire Zhang | BME Bachelors student Tenure: 2019-2020 | Machine learning engineer at Cerebras (link to profile) |
| Hae Sol Moon | BME Masters student with thesis Graduated: May 2020 | PhD student at Duke University, NC (link to profile) |
| Kevin Leung | PhD student, Biomedical Engineering Department, Johns Hopkins University (co-advised with Martin Pomper, MD, PhD) | Research Associate at Johns Hopkins University (link to profile) |
| Yansong Zhu | PhD student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Johns Hopkins University (co-advised with Arman Rahmim, PhD) | Post-doctoral fellow at University of California Davis (link to profile) |
| Qiming Wang | Masters student Spring 2020 | |
| Christian Gonzalez | Summer Intern, 2019, Johns Hopkins University | PhD student, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University |
| Jinxin Liu | Summer Intern, 2019, Tsinghua University | |
| Qiye Tan | Summer Intern, 2019, Zhejiang University | Master’s student at Brown University (link to profile) |
| Bo Yang | Summer Intern, 2019, Washington University | |
| Priyanshu Jain | Summer Intern, 2018, Washington University | |
| Xin Li | PhD student (graduate student of Dr. Eric Frey) | GE Global Research (link to profile) |
| Fatma Elshahaby | PhD student (graduate student of Dr. Eric Frey) | Assistant Professor at Egypt Institute of Informatics (link to profile) |
Collaborators
We believe that collaborations are highly important to address challenges in medical imaging. We are glad to have outstanding collaborations with experts in multiple disciplines.
Cardiac SPECT
- Barry Siegel, MD, Professor, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis
- Thomas Schindler, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis
- Richard Laforest, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis
Quantitative PET for cancer therapy
- Barry Siegel, MD, Professor, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis
- Joyce Mhlanga, MD, Assistant Professor, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis
- Clifford Robinson, MD, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Washington University in St. Louis
- Ramaswamy Govindan, MD, Professor of Oncology, Washington University in St. Louis
Quantitative dopamine transporter SPECT
- Joel Perlmutter, MD, Professor, Department of Radiology and Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis
- Scott Norris, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis
- Richard Laforest, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis