University of California, Los Angeles 1994-2008

• Professor of Neurology, UCLA;
• Ph.D., Neuroscience, 73-360 Brain Research Institute,
  Division of Brain Mapping, and Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA; Ph.D. thesis title: Mathematical/Computational Strategies for Analyzing 3D Human Brain Image Databases
• Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1993-1999;
• Research Grantee, United States Information Agency, Washington, DC, 1993-1999;
• Fulbright Scholar, U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission, London, England, 1993-1999;
• Research Grantee (Co-Investigator or PI): NCRR, NIMH, NLM, NINDS, NIA, NHMRC (Australia), NARSAD
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2002-
• Associate Editor, Human Brain Mapping, 2002-
• Associate Editor, NeuroImage, 2002-2007
• Editorial Board, Medical Image Analysis, 2002-
• Editorial Board, Cerebral Cortex, 2002-
• Elected Member, American Neurological Association, 2007-
• 2008 Wiley Young Investigator Award (Organization for Human Brain Mapping)
• Technical Evaluation Group & Grant Review Study Sections, National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Mental Health, National Science Foundation, National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 1999-
• Special Emphasis Panel, Center for Scientific Review, NIH
• Peer-Reviewer, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants Program, 1999-present; Alzheimer's Disease Association Grants Program, 1999-present;
• Member of the Program Committee for: IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, June 2000; SPIE Conference on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Imaging, July/August 2000; Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA), Dec. 2001; IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI): Macro to Nano, July 2002; IEEE Conference on Pattern Recognition 2002, August 2002; 5th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention 2002 (MICCAI 2002)
• Workshop Organizer for: Imaging in Medicine and the Neurosciences (May 2001, UCLA); Workshop on Deformable Models in Biomedical Imaging, MICCAI 2002 (Sept. 2002, Japan); Workshop on Mapping Brain Degeneration, Human Brain Mapping 2003 (June 2003, New York City)
• Honors/Awards:
  1998 Di Chiro Outstanding Scientific Paper Award;
  1998 Eiduson Award for Neuroscience Research;
  1997 SPIE Medical Imaging Award, Best Paper;
  Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year, UCLA; UCLA Chancellor's Service Award, 1998
  
• Invited Speaker: International Human Brain Mapping Conference, Montreal, 1998; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1998; Texas BrainMap Conference, 1998; Int. Conf. on Visualization in Biomedical Computing, Hamburg, 1997; Eiduson Lecture, 1998; Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, 1998; INRIA, France, 1998; National Institute of Mental Health, 2001; National Academy of Sciences, 2001
  
• Invited Speaker: VA Hospital, Los Angeles; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Brown University; Santa Monica Hospital, Los Angeles; Florida State University; Johns Hopkins University; UC San Diego; Arizona State University; Practical Parenting Partnerships, Missouri; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Boston; UC San Francisco; L.A. Psychoanalytic Institute; American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, San Francisco; Rockefeller University, New York; University of Pennsylvania
  

University College, Oxford University, England 1989-1993

• Master of Arts (Hons.), Mathematics & Philosophy
• Bachelor of Arts (First Class in Honour Moderations), Greek & Latin Languages
• Oxford University Scholar: Mathematics & Philosophy, Classical Languages
• Guinness Book of Records Certificate, 1989: U.K. Record Examination Achievement (9 A-levels); Article, courtesy of The Times Newspaper, London, Aug. 2000.
  
  

• New Strategies for Human Brain Mapping
  - Developing New Mathematical/Computational Algorithms for Neuroimaging:
  automated image analysis, and computer vision/pattern recognition
  - Analyzing and Encoding Variability in Brain Structure & Function using High-Performance Computing
  - Creation of a Probabilistic Atlas of the Human Brain and the Human Cortex [Tensor Maps]
  - Dynamic (4D) Brain Mapping - Mapping Human Brain Development and Degeneration
  - Brain Mapping in Large Human Populations
  - Structural & Functional Mapping of the Cerebral Cortex and Corpus Callosum
  - Establishment of a Neuroimaging Resource at UCLA (P41 NCRR Grant 1998-2003)
  
• Alzheimer's Disease
  - Creation of a Population-Based Alzheimer's Disease Brain Atlas
  - Brain Mapping in Dementia - Pathology Detection
  
• Schizophrenia
  - Creation of a Population-Based Schizophrenia Brain Atlas
  
• Pediatric Imaging
  - Mapping Growth Patterns during Brain Development
• Neuro-Oncology
  - Brain Mapping in Patients with Malignant Gliomas and Glioblastoma Multiforme
• Biomedical Engineering
  - Anatomical Modeling, Visualization and Animation
  - Integrating Neuroimaging Data from MRI, PET, SPECT, cryosection and histology
  

TECHNICAL INTERESTS:

• Large-scale C algorithm development (7 years experience; DEC, SGI, Sun, O2, Supercomputer platforms), perl, html, SQL, UNIX
• Advanced mathematical modeling, software engineering, scientific computing and numerical analysis
• 3D graphics & image analysis algorithms (modeling, animation, image warping, numerical simulation, CD-ROM production)
• Statistical and mechanical modeling (random field theory, active surfaces, deformable templates, 3D elastic and fluid image deformation algorithms)
• Parallel programming, high-performance supercomputing applications, Tcl/Tk, GUI interface development (in progress)

PUBLICATIONS (peer-reviewed scientific papers, book chapters, conference presentations):

• 600+ total (1996-2007; summaries available; reprints also available on request)

REVIEWED PAPERS FOR:

• Nature Neuroscience, Nature Genetics
• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron
• Journal of Neuroscience, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
• Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
• NeuroImage, Medical Image Analysis, Elsevier Trends in Pharmacological Science & Technology
• Human Brain Mapping, Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, Neuroreport
• American Journal of Psychiatry, Laterality, Journal of Electronic Imaging

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