Associate Research Professor, Center for Imaging Science and Institute for Computational Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering
My research focus is on the analysis of brain structures which include hippocampus, cingulate gyrus, planum temporale, superior temporal gyrus, and the auditory and prefrontal cortexes. These structures are implicated in neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, major depression, speech and language processing.
Other interests include the physiological fluid mechanics of the cochlear outer hair cell, the study of nonlinear partial differential equations (e.g. EPDiff in Computational Anatomy, Webster's Equation in bioacoustics, boundary layer separation in physiological flows), and continuing education via online web courses in applied mathematics.
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