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Kamran Avanaki, PhD

Principal Investigator

Email: avanaki@uic.edu
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Rayyan Manwar, PhD

Research Specialist​

Research area: 

Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging  

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Mohsin Zafar, PhD

Research Assistant Professor​

Research area: 

Photoacoustic Microscopy

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Amanda Siegel, PhD

Research Assistant Professor​

Research area: 

Multimodal Imaging

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Shoaib Anwar, PhD

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Research area: 

Photoacoustic Imaging

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Pradeep Bajracharya, PhD

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Research area: 

Photoacoustic Imaging

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Md Tarikul Islam​

PhD Candidate

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Research area: 

Thermoacoustic Imaging  

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Loïc Saint-Martin

PhD Candidate

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Research area: 

Skull Aberration Correction

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Juliana P. Benavides Lara
PhD Candidate

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Research area: 

Multimodal Imaging 

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Ravi Prakash

PhD Candidate

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Research area: 

Photoacoustic Imaging

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Seyed Mohsen Ranjbaran

PhD Student

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Research Area:

Photoacoustic Imaging

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Sina Movahedi Aliabadi

PhD Candidate

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Research Area:

Optical Coherence Tomography Modeling

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Hamed Massoumi

PhD Candidate

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Research area: 

Stem cell tracking

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Deepika Aggrawal

​​PhD Candidate

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Research area: 

Photoacoustic Imaging​

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 Amir Khansari  

​​PhD Student

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Research area: 

Photoacoustic Imaging​

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Samin Enam 

​​PhD Student

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Research area: 

Photoacoustic Imaging​

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Viktor Pinneker

PhD Student (Co-mentor)​

Research area: 

Pharmacology

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Ruweida Said
​​Medical Student

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Research area: 

OCT Imaging

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Julia May

​MD Candidate

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Research area: 

OCT Imaging of Melanoma

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Debbie Ramirez, MD

Medical Fellow

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Research area: 

Neonatal Ultrasound Imaging

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Victoria Di Franco

​MD Candidate

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Research area: 

Dermatology Research

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Natalie Bourand

​MD Candidate

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Research area: 

OCT Tomography

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Eden Jin

MD Candidate​

Research area: 

Longitudinal Photoacoustic Imaging

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Neda Abbaszadeh

MD Candidate​

Research area: 

 Melanoma Research

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Katelyn Lee
​​Undergraduate Student

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Research area: 

OCT Imaging

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Saanvi Sethi
​​Undergraduate Student

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Research area: 

OCT Imaging

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Sneha Sharma
​​Undergraduate Student

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Research area: 

Breast Phantom Imaging

Alumni

James Matchynski

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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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