People

Mert R. Sabuncu

Mert R. Sabuncu

Principal Investigator

Mert received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. He was then a post-doctoral fellow at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. After several years as a faculty member at Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital), he moved to Cornell where he is Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Broadly speaking, his research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence, biomedical data analysis, and healthcare. [Curriculum Vitae]

Post-docs and Research Scientists

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Heejong Kim

Heejong is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine. She obtained her PhD degree in Computer Science from New York University. During her PhD, her research focus was longitudinal atlas building for diffusion MR images. Her research interest lies in discovering computational techniques and their application to medical imaging data. [page]
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Benjamin Lee

Benjamin C. Lee is a Senior Research Associate in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM).  His current research in the SabLab involves developing machine learning algorithms for cardiovascular medical imaging in CT, Echo, ECG, and histopathology data for heart failure, heart transplantation, and coronary plaque characterization. Ben’s previous appointment at WCM was in the Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging working with CT and SPECT images. Prior to working at WCM, he was a research scientist in industry for over 10 years at INVIA Medical Imaging Solutions in Michigan researching advanced algorithms for the 4DM nuclear medicine (PET, SPECT) cardiac quantification software.  His research interests also include biomedical image segmentation, motion correction, image coregistration, kinetic analysis, and inverse problems. He received both his Ph.D. and M.S. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in Electrical Engineering specializing in image processing and image reconstruction and he received his B.S. from Cornell University.

Graduate Students

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Cagla Deniz Bahadir

Cagla is a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. She graduated with a BS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey. She, then received the Fulbright Scholarship and graduated with an MS degree in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University. Her research interests are Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Digital Pathology and Machine Learning. She plays the piano and sings with Cornell University Chorale.
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Sijia Gao

Sijia is currently a PhD student at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Cornell University. She is also appointed as a visiting graduate assistant in Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical School. Her research project aims at identifying cortical patterns that promote arousal from a low brain state through brainstem stimulation and the integrated cortical and motor dynamics during anesthesia.
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Zijin Gu

Zijin is currently a PhD student at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Cornell University. She received her B.Eng degree in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. Her research focuses on the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience. Now she is interested in applying machine learning algorithms to brain connectivity networks and is working on analyzing the structural and functional connectomes. When she is free, she loves traveling. She also enjoys piano and photography. [github]

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Batuhan Karaman

Batuhan is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell. He previously received a BS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University. His research interests center around machine learning and its application to biomedical problems. He is currently working on multimodal learning for Alzheimer’s disease. 

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Alan Wang

Alan is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell. Previously, he graduated with a degree in computer engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a researcher at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he investigated modeling wireless communication channels using deep learning. His research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and medical imaging, particularly magnetic resonance imaging. [github]

Gia H. Ngo

Minh Nguyen

Minh is a PhD student in the ECE department at Cornell. Minh is from Vietnam and has previously been in Singapore prior to coming to the US. His research interests include statistically efficient machine learning, robust machine learning with noisy data, and causal inference. Minh likes to play tennis and go hiking in his free time.
He is also interested in robotics and space exploration. [github]

B.S. and M.Eng. Students

Alumni

Adrian Dalca

Prior Post-doc

Meenakshi Khosla

Prior Ph.D. Student

James Redd

Prior B.S. Student

Siwen Chen

Prior M.Eng. Student

Yiming Yan

Prior M.Eng. Student

Yuqi Hong

Prior M.Eng. Student

Yingying Zhu

Prior Post-doc

Evan Yu

Prior Ph.D. student

Artem Bolshakov

Prior Ph.D. Student

Leo Moon

Prior M.Eng. Student

Hanyang Zhang

Prior M.Eng. Student

Jiaxin Liu

Prior M.Eng. Student

Gia Ngo

 Prior Ph.D. Student

Zhilu Zhang

Prior Ph.D. student

Raymond Xu

 Prior M.Eng. Student

Matthew Pool

Prior Ph.D. Student

Amaya Murguia

Prior M.Eng. Student

Tianyu Ma

Prior Ph.D. student

Victor Butoi

Prior B.S. Student

Yuqing Shou

Prior B.Eng. Student

Carmen Khoo

Prior M.S. Student

Jin Cui

Prior M.Eng. Student

Shashank Pathak

Prior B.S. Student