Kamran Avanaki, PhD

Principal Investigator

Email: avanaki@uic.edu
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Rayyan Manwar, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Research area: 

Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging  

Mohsin Zafar

PhD Candidate

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Research area: 

Photoacoustic Microscopy

Qiuyun Xu

PhD Candidate

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Research area: 

Contrast-enhanced OCT Imaging of Melanoma 

Md Tarikul Islam​

PhD Student

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Research area: 

Photoacoustic Imaging  

Loïc Saint-Martin

PhD Student

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Research area: 

Skull Aberration Correction

Juliana P. Benavides Lara
PhD Student

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Research area: 

Multimodal Imaging 

Brandon E Lukas
PhD Student

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Research area: 

Quantitative OCT 

Ravi Prakash

PhD Student

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Research area: 

Photoacoustic Imaging

Deyana Nasri

PhD Student

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Research Area:

Photoacoustic Imaging

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Sina Movahedi Aliabadi

PhD Student

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Research Area:

Optical Coherence Tomography Modeling

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James Matchynski

MD/PhD Candidate

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Research area: 

Photoacoustic Imaging  

Jenna Lee
​​Visiting Scholar

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Research area: 

OCT/Confocal/Ultrasound of

Phakomatosis Pigmentokeratotica

Chieh-Hsi Lin
Graduate Research Assistant

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Research area: 

OCT Image Analysis

Azam Khan
Research Assistant

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Research Area:

Mechanical Design

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Anthony Shoo, MD

Medical Fellow

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Research area: 

Clinical Use of Photoacoustic Tomography for Neonates

Sruti Akella, MD

Medical Fellow

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Research area: 

OCT for Tumor Boarder Delineation

Abigail V Waltz

​MD Candidate

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Research area: 

Neonatal Ultrasound Imaging

Julia May

​MD Candidate

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Research area: 

OCT Imaging of Melanoma

Besher Jabri
Undergraduate Student

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Research area: 

OCT Image Enhancement

Eron N Mendenhall
​Undergraduate Student

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Research area: 

OCT Skin Imaging

Thu Le
​​Undergraduate Student

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Research area: 

Machine Learning 

Alumni

Zahra Fayyaz, Research Assistant at Ruhr University of Bochum, Institut für Neuroinformatik 

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Karl Kratkiewicz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Karmanos Cancer center

Andrew Pyle, Engineer at  AEROTEK

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Faiza MEKHALFA, Researcher at Research Center in Industrial Technologies CRTI

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Dilara Turk, Dermatology Resident at Wayne State Univerity School of Medicine 

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Audry Fotouhi, Dermatology Resident at Wayne State Univerity School of Medicine 

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Nafiseh Mohammadian, Research Assistant at CREOL, University of Central Florida

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Afreen Fatima, Research Assistant at Wayne State University 

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Saba Adabi, Research Fellow at Mayo Clinic

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Ali Hariri, Research Assistant at University of California in San Diego

Nour Arfat, Research Assistant at University of Michigan

Nicholas Belly, Research Assistant at University of Michigan

Fangyuan Zhang, Research Assistant at University of South California

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