University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Guorong Wu, PhD
Principal Investigator
Guorong Wu (PI) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the recipient of NIH Career Development Award. His research interests are medical image analysis, machine learning, scientific data visualization, and computer assisted diagnosis. He is interested in the data-driven research to explore neuroscience problems and systematic solution to improve the healthcare in clinic practice. Currently, he leads several NIH and NSF funded research projects include (1) early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease by longitudinal image analysis, (2) longitudinal analysis of the dynamic network disruptions in Alzheimer’s disease, (3) biomarkers across neurodisorders, (4) 3D nuclear segmentation for light sheet microscopy images of mouse brain, and (5) spontaneous pain assessment using deep learning technology.
Sang Kyoon Park, MS
Research Instructor
SK Park holds the master's degree from KAIST, Korea. His lifelong question is to model how a world works in a mathematical manner. So latter half of his study was focused on the topics including simulation and machine learning. He has studied various fields and tried to use those knowledge for a real problems. He has programmed with several languages since 30 years ago, which helped him when he studied those subjects. His current projects include automatic mouse grimace and DTI image processing.
Junbo Ma, PhD
Post-doc
Junbo Ma is a Post-Doc research associate in ACM lab. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Massey University, New Zealand, in 2019. His research interests include medical image analysis, computational neuroscience, and interpretable machine learning. His current research project is 3D nucleus instance segmentation on tissue clearing light-sheet microscopy images.
Jiaqi Ding
Ph.D. Student
Jiaqi is a PhD student from the Department of Computer Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is working on developing high-throughput machine learning methods for analyze large-scale microscopy images of mouse brain.
Zhentao Yu
Ph.D. Student
Zhentao is a PhD student from Department of Biostatistics at UNC-Chapel Hil. He is working on multi-variate statistical model for high-dimension biomedical data, with the focus on Alzheimer's disease.
Md Asadullah Turja
Ph.D. Student
Md Asadullah Turja is a graduate research assistant in ACM lab. He is now Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2016 in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research interests are medical image analysis, graph mining, and machine learning. His current project is longitudinal network analysis with application to neurodegenerative diseases.
Haixu Ma
Ph.D. Student
Haixu is a Statistics PhD student in UNC Chapel Hill’s Department of Statistics and Operations Research. He is co-supervised by Drs. Yufeng Li and Guorong Wu, studying high-dimensional modeling on heterogeneous biomedical data.
Jie Chen
Ph.D. Student
Jie is a phd student at the Department of Biostatistics in UNC. She is developing high-dimensional statistical model to answer the biological questions such as health disparity. She is co-supervised by Dr. Hongtu Zhu and Dr. Wu.
Mustafa Dere
Research Specialist
Mustafa obtain the Master's degree on Computer Science from UNC-Greensboro in 2021. He is working with Dr. Wu in developing deep learning techniques for nueroimaging data.
Sarah Khan
Research Specialist
Sarah obtained the Bachelor's degree of Science in Biology and Minor in Chemistry from UNC in 2019. She is working with Dr. Wu in processing mouse MRI image for CHD-8 mouse.
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Hyejin Yang
Programmer
Hyejin will join ACM lab in Oct, 2021. She obtain the Bachelor's degree in Math from KAIST in Korea, 2015. She is developing cloud-based solution for 3D nuclei segmentation project.
Tingting Dan
Research Assistent
Tingting is currently a Research Assistant at ACM lab. Her research focus is manifold-based deep model for neuroscience behavior studies.
Brooklyn De Shazo-Griffin
Undergraduate Student
Brooklyn is working on the microscopy and MR image analysis for mouse brains in the CHD8 project.
Varun Saitej Indugula
Undergraduate Student
I am a Sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill studying neuroscience and I am interested in pursuing research in that field. I am from Cary, NC and I am interested in the cross-section between neuroscience and computer science. I love to watch horror movies, go skiing, and I am a fan of football and basketball. Go Heels!
Suning Chen
Undergraduate Student
My name is Suning Chen, and I am a junior year student majoring in Neuroscience and Computer Science. I am interested in studying neuro-disease and analyzing the brain using computational models.
Zhuoyu Shi
Undergraduate Student
Zhuoyu is a sophomore student at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in Psychology and Computer Science and minoring in Neuroscience. She plans to attend graduate school and delve further into brain after graduation.
Previous Members
Benjamin Leinwand is a Statistics PhD student in UNC Chapel Hill’s Department of Statistics and Operations Research. He was co-supervised by Drs. Vladas Pipiras and Guorong Wu.
Defu Yang
Dr. Yang was a visiting scholar in ACM lab from 2018 to 2020. He worked on hub identification methods when he was in UNC.
Amr Moussa
Amr Moussa was a Research Assistant in ACM lab from 2016 to 2018. Amr was a software developer that specializes in 3D rendering techniques and hardware acceleration.
Jiazhou Chen
Dr. Chen was a visiting student at ACM lab from 2018 to 2019. He is working with Dr. Wu in developing harmonic network analysis approaches.
Yi Lin
Yi was a visiting student at ACM lab from 2018 to 2019. He worked with Dr. Wu in developing graph learning approaches for brain network analysis. He is the graduate student at Washington University at St. Louis now.
Anqi Chen
Anqi was a visiting student at ACM lab from 2018 to 2019. He developed a graph-based reinforcement learning method to brain network hub identification.
Jia Hou
Dr. Hou was a visiting scholar at ACM lab from 2018 to 2019. He is interested in graph signal processing.
Dr. Zhu was a post-doc from 2015 to 2017. She is now the faculty member at ECE department at University of Texas, Arlinton.
Pei Dong
Dr. Dong was the postdoc at ACM lab from 2015 to 2018. He is interested in hypergraph techniques with the application in multi-atlas segmentation.
Zhengxia Wang
Dr. Wang was a visiting scholar in ACM lab from 2014 to 2015. She was working on graph-based machine learning techniques for disease diagnosis.
Chen Zu
Dr. Zu was a visiting student in ACM lab from 2015 to 2016. He deveoped a motif-based method for discovering connectome biomarkers for neurodisease.
Shaoyu Wang
Dr. Wang was a visiting scholar in ACM lab from 2016 to 2017. He was interested in image segmetation.
Ying Zhang
Ying is currently the phd student in Biostatistics Department at UNC-CH. She worked with Dr. Wu in cognitive reserve project from 2019 to 2020.
Di Hu
Di is currently the phd student in Biostatistics Department at UNC-CH. She worked with Dr. Wu in identifying regional resilience effect of amyloid and tau biomarker from 2020 to 2021.
Yajing Hao
Yajing is currently the phd student in Biostatistics Department at UNC-CH. In ACM lab, she worked on polygenetic risk score for Alzheimer's disease.
Chuning (Camille) Liu
Camille is currently the phd student in Biostatistics Department at UNC-CH. She worked on GWAS, gene expression data analysis when she was in ACM lab from 2019 to 2021.
Lang Li
Lang is a phd student in the Department of Biostatistics at UNC-CH. He worked with Dr. Wu in developing statistical model for cognitive reserve.
Andrew Zhen
Andrew worked with Dr. Wu on graph neural networks from 2020 summer to 2021 when he was the high school senior student. He is now the undergraduate student at Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania.
Qian Wang
Dr. Wang was a visiting schloar at ACM lab from 2017 to 2018. She worked with Dr. Wu in developing nuclei segmentation method for light-sheet microscopy images using deep learning technique.
Yuchao Tang
Dr. Tang was a visiting schloar at ACM lab from 2015 to 2016. He is interested in sparse optimization technique.
Xin Liu
Dr. Liu joined ACM lab in 2018 as a visituing scholar. She first worked in BRIC then moved to the Department of Psychiatry with Dr. Wu in August, 2018. She worked on functional brain network analysis when she was visiting ACM lab.
Hanwen Cao
Dr. Cao was a visiting scholar at ACM lab from 2018 to 2019. Her research interest is image processing and optimization.
Yutong Liu
Yutong is currently the phd student in Biostatistics Department at UNC-CH. She worked with Dr. Wu on multilevel brain network analysis from 2015 to 2016 school year.
Yueting Wang
Yueting was the master student in Biostatistics Department at UNC-CH. She worked with Dr. Wu on longitudinal mix-effect model for Alzheimer's in 2018.
Xin Liu
Dr. Niu joined ACM lab in January 2022 as a postdoc scholar. He worked on functional brain network analysis.
Elodie Piot
Elodie is the research intern from CPE Lyon, France. She was developing a new data processing pipeline in Slicer which combines the DTI image processing, fiber tracking, and network construction for both cortical and sub-cortical regions.
Dehuv Patel
Dehuv joined ACM lab in 2019. He was studying Riemannian manifold theory for functional dynamics.
In Memorial of
Daniel I. Kaufer, MD
March 7, 1959 - July 2, 2020