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Kamran Avanaki, PhD

Principal Investigator

Email: avanaki@uic.edu
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Rayyan Manwar, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research area: 

Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging  

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Mohsin Zafar, PhD

Research Specialist

Research area: 

Photoacoustic Microscopy

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Md Tarikul Islam

PhD Student

Research area: 

Photoacoustic Imaging  

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Loïc Saint-Martin

PhD Student

Research area: 

Skull Aberration Correction

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Juliana P. Benavides Lara
PhD Student

Research area: 

Multimodal Imaging 

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Brandon E Lukas
PhD Student

Research area: 

Quantitative OCT 

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Ravi Prakash

PhD Student

Research area: 

Photoacoustic Imaging

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Seyed Mohsen Ranjbaran

PhD Student

Research Area:

Photoacoustic Imaging

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Sina Movahedi Aliabadi

PhD Student

Research Area:

Optical Coherence Tomography Modeling

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Hamed Massoumi

PhD Student

Research area: 

Stem cell tracking

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Deepika Aggrawal

​PhD Student

Research area: 

Photoacoustic Imaging

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Jenna Lee
​Visiting Scholar

Research area: 

OCT/Confocal/Ultrasound of

Phakomatosis Pigmentokeratotica

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Chieh-Hsi Lin
Graduate Research Assistant

Research area: 

OCT Image Analysis

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Ashutosh Mishra

Research Assistant

Research Area:

Mechanical Design

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Anthony Shoo, MD

Medical Fellow

Research area: 

Clinical Use of Photoacoustic Tomography for Neonates

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Sruti Akella, MD

Medical Fellow

Research area: 

OCT for Tumor Boarder Delineation

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Abigail V Waltz

MD Candidate

Research area: 

Neonatal Ultrasound Imaging

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Julia May

MD Candidate

Research area: 

OCT Imaging of Melanoma

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Giovanna Sena

MD Candidate

Research area: 

OCT Imaging of Hidradenitis Suppurativa

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Jake Zeisel

​Master's Student

Research area: 

Machine Learning 

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Thu Le
​Undergraduate Student

Research area: 

Machine Learning 

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Tuyen Mai

​Undergraduate Student

Research area: 

Photoacoustic Imaging

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Besher Jabri
Undergraduate Student

Research area: 

OCT Image Enhancement

Alumni

James Matchynski

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

Karl Kratkiewicz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Karmanos Cancer center

 

Andrew Pyle, Engineer at  AEROTEK

Faiza MEKHALFA, Researcher at Research Center in Industrial Technologies CRTI

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

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

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

Afreen Fatima, Research Assistant at Wayne State University 

Saba Adabi, Research Fellow at Mayo Clinic

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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