People

Principal Investigator

Abhijit J. Chaudhari
Lab Director; Professor, Department of Radiology
Director, Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging (CMGI)
Director, UC Davis Imaging Research Center (IRC)
M.S. (E. E.), California State University, Northridge
M.S. (Appl Math), Ph.D. (E.E.), University of Southern California
e-mail: ajchaudhari AT health DOT ucdavis DOT edu

 

Valerie Porter
Graduate Student, Major: Biomedical Engineering
B. S. (Bioengineering), University of California San Diego
email: vporter AT ucdavis DOT edu

Yasser Abdelhafez
Research Specialist
M.B.B.Ch., M.Sc., M.D. (Nuclear Medicine), Cairo University, Egypt
email: yabdelhafez AT ucdavis DOT edu
Alita D’Almeida
Graduate Student, Major: Biomedical Engineering
B. Eng. (Electronics and Communication Engineering), Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India
email: ajdalmeida AT ucdavis DOT edu
Anelise Caceres
Undergraduate Student, Major: Biomedical Engineering
University of California Davis
email: ajcaceres AT ucdavis DOT edu
Brad Hobson
Research Scientist, CMGI and IRC
Ph.D. (Pharmacology and Toxicology), University of California Davis
email: bahobson AT ucdavis DOT edu

Collaborators

Pamela J. Lein, Ph.D. (UC Davis – School of Veterinary Medicine, Molecular Biosciences)
Siba P. Raychaudhuri, M.D. (UC Davis – Rheumatology, Sacramento VA Medical Center)
Karen L. Bales, Ph.D. (UC Davis – Psychology, CNPRC)
Lorenzo Nardo, M.D., Ph.D. (UC Davis – Radiology)
Guobao Wang, Ph.D. (UC Davis – Radiology)
Alice F. Tarantal, Ph.D. (UC Davis – Pediatrics, CNPRC)
John H. Morrison, Ph.D. (UC Davis – Neurology, CNPRC)
Ramsey D. Badawi, Ph.D.(UC Davis – Radiology)
Anand A. Joshi, Ph.D. (USC – Electrical Engineering)
Krishna Nayak, Ph.D., (USC – Electrical Engineering)
Richard M. Leahy, Ph.D. (USC – Electrical Engineering)

Affiliated Centers

UC Davis Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging
UC Davis Imaging Research Center
California National Primate Research Center
UC Davis CounterACT Center of Excellence
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center

 

Alumni

Name Current position
Igor Immerman, M.D. Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Shruti Agarwal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, UTHealth Houston
Jeremy Katz, M.D. Radiologist, University of Pittsburg, IL, USA
Felipe Godinez, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, UC Davis (co-mentored with Dr Ramsey Badawi)
Anupam Mitra, M.D. Medical Fellow, UC Davis (co-mentored with Dr Siba Raychaudhuri)
Calvin Shaw, Ph.D. Acoustic Hardware Engineering, Apple
Zachary Harmany, Ph.D. Algorithm Engineer, Apple Inc
Brad Hobson, Ph.D. Research Scientist, UC Davis Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging
Yasser Abdelhafez, M.D. Research Specialist, UC Davis EXPLORER Center
Douglas J Rowland, Ph.D. Applications Manager, Sigray, Inc
Soumajyoti Sarkar, M.D. Physician, Institute of Child Health, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Laura Sonoda, M.D., M.P.H. Hand surgeon, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group (co-mentored with Dr Robert Szabo)
Dario Mazza, M.S. Biostatistician,Institute For Medical Research, Durham
Zachary Ashwell, M.D. Radiologist, Radia Inc, Lynwood, WA
Cathy Zhou, M.D. Physician, Epic Imaging, Portland, OR
Stephen Henrichon, M.D. Radiologist, Dignity Health Mercy Radiology Group, Rancho Cordova, CA
Bedro Jin, M.D. Radiologist, UCLA Health
Yves-Paul Nakache, M.D. Physician, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
David Gedeon, M. D. Radiologist, Private Practice, Orange, CA
Michelle Wu, M.D. Radiologist, Kaiser Permanente
Dylan Noblett, M.D. Medical Fellow, UC San Diego
Amode Tembhekar, M.D. Clinical Instructor, NYU
Sanchita Raychaudhuri, M.D. Medical Fellow, Harvard Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Namitha Benjamin, M.S. Senior Software Engineer, Apple (co-mentored with Dr. Kwan-Liu Ma)
Brent Foster, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist, Riverain Technologies
Heather Borgard, M.S. Graduate student, UC Davis (on leave)
Cindy La, B.S. Physician, Kaiser Permanente
Vinay Nittur, B.S. Medical resident, University of Southern California
Scott To, B.S. Software Engineer at Workday Inc.
Marissa Borgese, B.S. Medical resident, Yale University
Vishal Dixit, B.S. Data scientist, Capgemini
Yimeng Du, B.S. PhD student, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Analise Caceres Verification and Validation Engineer, Biorad