PEOPLE | Khan Computational Imaging Lab

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Principal Investigator Medical Biophysics Ali Khan Principal Investigator Medical Biophysics Email: ali.khan@uwo.ca Github: akhanf ORCiD: 0000-0002-0760-8647 Google Scholar: sUzDbBUAAAAJ Twitter: @neuroak About I am a Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute, Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics at Western University, and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Computational Neuroimaging. I obtained my PhD from Simon Fraser University and joined Western University in 2011 as a post-doctoral fellow. My research is focussed on the development of intelligent image processing and analysis technologies, and their application in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders.	PhD Student Neuroscience Co-supervised by Dr. Ingrid Johnsrude Ali Tafakkor Co-supervised by Dr. Ingrid Johnsrude PhD Student Neuroscience Email: atafakko@uwo.ca Github: AliTafakkor ORCiD: 0009-0006-7381-0647 Google Scholar: DjIWxUUAAAAJ Twitter: @AliTafakkor About I am a PhD student in Neuroscience with a background in both Neuroscience (MSc) and Electrical Engineering (BSc). My research focuses on how cognitive control regions contribute to speech processing in noisy environments, as well as the normative mapping of functional brain responses. I am also deeply interested in using machine learning—particularly neural networks—as a framework for understanding brain function.
PhD Student Neuroscience Mahdieh Varvani PhD Student Neuroscience Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About	PhD student Neuroscience Co-supervised by Dr. Maryam Nouri Mary Taylor Co-supervised by Dr. Maryam Nouri PhD student Neuroscience Email: mtayl84@uwo.ca Github: mtayl84 ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: @marygtaylor About I am a PhD student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program. I completed my undergraduate degree at Brock University in Neuropsychology. My work is focused on the use of functional and structural imaging to characterize and monitor network patterns in patients with focal epilepsy, as well as relating these patterns to cognitive performance.
PhD Student Neuroscience Co-supervised by Dr. Stefan Kohler Nima Talaei Kamalabadi Co-supervised by Dr. Stefan Kohler PhD Student Neuroscience Email: ntalaeik@uwo.ca Github: NimaTalaeiKamalabadi ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About I am a PhD student in Neuroscience with a master’s degree in Cognitive Psychology and a bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering. My current research focuses on understanding hippocampal structure and function and their relationship with behavior through neuroimaging. I am also deeply interested in applying machine learning, particularly neural networks, as a framework for understanding the brain.	PhD Student Anatomy and Cell Biology Co-supervised by Dr. Shawn Whitehead Victor Lau Co-supervised by Dr. Shawn Whitehead PhD Student Anatomy and Cell Biology Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About
MD/PhD candidate Neuroscience Co-supervised by Dr. Jonathan Lau Violet Liu Co-supervised by Dr. Jonathan Lau MD/PhD candidate Neuroscience Email: mliu366@uwo.ca Github: https://github.com/vmliu366 ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0150-0600 Google Scholar: Twitter: About Violet Liu is a current MD/PhD candidate in the department of Neuroscience. Her research interests include the characterization of the human subcortex for neurosurgical targeting and visualization, neuroimaging registration, and neuroanatomy.	Master's Student Department of Medical Biophysics Arshya Pooladi-Darvish Master's Student Department of Medical Biophysics Email: apooladi@uwo.ca Github: Arshya-Guru ORCiD: 0009-0005-1591-1194 Google Scholar: Twitter: About I am a graduate student with a research focus in neuroimaging of disease states. My work spans a number of projects including developing tools for subpopulation-specific cell quantification in light-sheet microscopy images, characterizing MRI-detectable neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis and its relation to cognitive decline, and analyzing structural and functional brain changes associated with epilepsy.
Master's Student Department of Neuroscience Co-supervised by Dr. Taylor Schmitz Luke Smolders Co-supervised by Dr. Taylor Schmitz Master's Student Department of Neuroscience Email: lsmolder@uwo.ca Github: lsmolder ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About Luke is a MSc student in Neuroscience supervised by Dr. Ali Khan & Dr. Taylor Schmitz. He completed his undergraduate education at Western University, obtaining a Bachelor of Medical Sciences with an Honours Specialization in Physiology and Pharmacology. His current area of research involves leveraging light sheet fluorescence microscopy and multimodal MRI to investigate vascular and neural changes in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.	Master's Student Neuroscience Co-supervised by Dr. Emma Duerden Eugene Tannikas Co-supervised by Dr. Emma Duerden Master's Student Neuroscience Email: etannika@uwo.ca Github: eugenetannikas ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About I am an MSc student in Neuroscience, also specializing in Developmental Biology. I received my Bachelor’s degree at Western University in Medical Sciences, where I double majored in Physiology and Pathology. My current research uses ultra-high-field MRI to map structural and functional connectivity among key subcortical regions, particularly the amygdala and locus coeruleus, in children and adolescents.
Master's Student Biomedical Engineering Farhad Fallah Master's Student Biomedical Engineering Email: ffallahz@uwo.ca Github: farhad-99 ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About I received my Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. I started my Master’s degree in January 2025 in Biomedical Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Khan in the Khan Computational Imaging Lab. My research interests lie in medical image analysis and processing, as well as deploying deep learning models for medical applications	Master's Student Biomedical Engineering Co-supervised by Dr. Emma Duerden Mahmoud Yaser Co-supervised by Dr. Emma Duerden Master's Student Biomedical Engineering Email: msalma29@uwo.ca Github: mahmoud1yaser ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About I am an MESc student in Biomedical Engineering. I hold a BSc in Biomedical Engineering from Cairo University. My past research experience includes brain tumor segmentation and motion artifact correction using deep learning, as well as employing active learning to continuously enhance model performance in clinical settings. Currently, I am focused on improving automatic hippocampal segmentation for clinical infant brain scans. Explore my projects at myaser.vercel.app.
Research Software Engineer Robarts Research Institute Co-supervised by Dr. Jonathan Lau Dhananjhay Bansal Co-supervised by Dr. Jonathan Lau Research Software Engineer Robarts Research Institute Email: dbansal7@uwo.ca Github: Dhananjhay ORCiD: 0009-0004-4161-3601 Google Scholar: Ci_wM0wAAAAJ Twitter: About I am a junior astrophysicist turned research software engineer with experience developing telescope software (CASTOR, HIRAX). Now focused on computational neuroscience, I work on various neuroimaging projects at Robarts Research Institute, including AutoAFIDs and HippUnfold, building research-driven software tools

Alumni

Postdoctoral fellow Robarts Research Insititute Co-supervised by Dr. Blake Butler Daniel Miller Co-supervised by Dr. Blake Butler Postdoctoral fellow Robarts Research Insititute Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About	Postdoctoral fellow Robarts Research Insititute Co-supervised by Dr. Shelley Boyd (Tracery Ophthalmics) Nehad Hirmiz Co-supervised by Dr. Shelley Boyd (Tracery Ophthalmics) Postdoctoral fellow Robarts Research Insititute Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About
Postdoctoral fellow Robarts Research Insititute Roy Haast Postdoctoral fellow Robarts Research Insititute Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About	Postdoctoral fellow Robarts Research Insititute Co-supervised by Dr. Corey Baron Uzair Hussain Co-supervised by Dr. Corey Baron Postdoctoral fellow Robarts Research Insititute Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About I am a postdoc at Robarts Research Institute at Western University, London. I obtained my Ph.D. from Memorial University in theoretical physics with a focus on black holes. My MSc was in theoretical astrophysics from the University of Waterloo and BSc in physics from McMaster University. My research focuses on diffusion MRI (dMRI), and my current projects aim to model diffusion processes in geometrically complex regions of the brain like the neocortex and the hippocampus. We employ techniques from differential geometry to flatten these complex regions and then model diffusion processes in the flattened space in order to enhance detection of abnormalities from dMRI.
Postdoctoral fellow Robarts Research Insititute Co-supervised by Dr. Terry Peters Yiming Xiao Co-supervised by Dr. Terry Peters Postdoctoral fellow Robarts Research Insititute Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About	PhD Student Biomedical Engineering Co-supervised by Dr. Jonathan Lau Alaa Taha Co-supervised by Dr. Jonathan Lau PhD Student Biomedical Engineering Email: ataha24@uwo.ca Github: ataha24 ORCiD: Google Scholar: 453eH-8AAAAJ Twitter: About
PhD student Neuroscience Brad Karat PhD student Neuroscience Email: bkarat@uwo.ca Github: Bradley-Karat ORCiD: Google Scholar: 6IN46G4AAAAJ Twitter: @bradleykarat About I am a PhD student in the Neuroscience graduate program. I completed my undergraduate degree in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour from McMaster University. My current research focuses on microstructural modelling of the Hippocampus in native and flattened space using diffusion MRI.	PhD student Biomedical Engineering Co-supervised by Dr. Penny MacDonald Dimuthu Hemachandra Co-supervised by Dr. Penny MacDonald PhD student Biomedical Engineering Email: dhemacha@uwo.ca Github: dimuthuhemachandra ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: @dimuthuH About I am a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Biomedical Engineering at UWO. I completed my undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and I obtained my MSc. in Astrophysics from the University of Western Ontario. My current research project is focused on analyzing the structural connectivity of the brain using Diffusion MRI to find a biomarker for Parkinson’s disease. PhD. student, Biomedical Engineering. co-supervised by Dr. Ali Khan & Dr. Penny MacDonald
Master's student Neuroscience Co-supervised by Dr. Marieke Mur Geetika Gupta Co-supervised by Dr. Marieke Mur Master's student Neuroscience Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About	PhD student Medical Biophysics Jason Kai PhD student Medical Biophysics Email: tkai@uwo.ca Github: kaitj ORCiD: 0000-0002-7074-6348 Google Scholar: IZrvr8kAAAAJ Twitter: @jasonkai About I completed my undergraduate degree in Electrical & Biomedical engineering at McMaster University before first joining the lab as a summer research student. My research is primarily focused on investigating the brain’s short-range structural connections which join together nearby regions using multi-parametric MRI techniques.
PhD student Biomedical Engineering Co-supervised by Dr. Terry Peters Jonathan Lau Co-supervised by Dr. Terry Peters PhD student Biomedical Engineering Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About	PhD student Neuroscience Co-supervised by Dr. Stefan Kohler Jordan DeKraker Co-supervised by Dr. Stefan Kohler PhD student Neuroscience Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About
PhD student Biomedical Engineering Co-supervised by Terry Peters Loxlan Kasa Co-supervised by Terry Peters PhD student Biomedical Engineering Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About	MD/PhD student Neuroscience Co-supervised by Dr. Lena Palaniyappan Peter Van Dyken Co-supervised by Dr. Lena Palaniyappan MD/PhD student Neuroscience Email: pvandyk2@uwo.ca Github: pvandyken ORCiD: 0000-0001-7357-5815 Google Scholar: Twitter: About MD/PhD student investigating structural connectivity in schizophrenia. One of the main contributors to snakebids, kslurm, and a few other tools used by the lab.
Master's student Neuroscience Co-supervised by Dr. Emma Duerden Sara Pac Co-supervised by Dr. Emma Duerden Master's student Neuroscience Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About	PhD student Neuroscience Co-supervised by Dr. Taylor Schmitz Sudesna Chakraborty Co-supervised by Dr. Taylor Schmitz PhD student Neuroscience Email: schakr28@uwo.ca Github: sudesnac ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: @Sudesna18 About I am a PhD student in the Neuroscience graduate program. I received my BSc from University of Pittsburgh and MSc from the University of Texas at Dallas both in Neuroscience. My past research work has focused on memory and how it is effected by healthy aging as well as neurological diseases. Currently, I am working on quantitative MRI modelling of healthy ageing.
Master's Student Neuroscience Co-supervised by Dr. Jonathan Lau Arun Thurairajah Co-supervised by Dr. Jonathan Lau Master's Student Neuroscience Email: Github: arunthurai ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About	Master's student Biomedical Engineering Co-supervised by Dr. Terry Peters Charlotte Blinston Co-supervised by Dr. Terry Peters Master's student Biomedical Engineering Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter:
Master's student Medical Biophysics Co-supervised by Dr. Corey Baron Farah Mushtaha Co-supervised by Dr. Corey Baron Master's student Medical Biophysics Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About	Master's student Biomedical Engineering Hossein Rejali Master's student Biomedical Engineering Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter:
Master's student Clinical Anatomy John Demarco Master's student Clinical Anatomy Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter:	Master's Student Neuroscience Co-supervised by Seyed Mirsattari Keza Motlana Co-supervised by Seyed Mirsattari Master's Student Neuroscience Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About
Master's student Neuroscience Co-supervised by Dr. Seyed Mirsattari Kristen Ikeda Co-supervised by Dr. Seyed Mirsattari Master's student Neuroscience Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter:	Undergraduate student Medical Biophysics Mohamed Yousif Undergraduate student Medical Biophysics Email: myousif9@uwo.ca Github: myousif9 ORCiD: Google Scholar: i_xSNBkAAAAJ Twitter: @mohameddyousif
Master's student Biomedical Engineering Co-supervised by Dr. Corey Baron Tristan Kuehn Co-supervised by Dr. Corey Baron Master's student Biomedical Engineering Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter:	Master's student Biomedical Engineering Co-supervised by Dr. Terry Peters Utsav Pardasani Co-supervised by Dr. Terry Peters Master's student Biomedical Engineering Email: Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter:
Undergraduate Student Software Engineering Ben Gros Undergraduate Student Software Engineering Email: bgros@uwo.ca Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About	Intern software developer Robarts Research Institute Chirooth Girigowda Intern software developer Robarts Research Institute Email: cgirigow@uwo.ca Github: CHIROOTH ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About I am a computer science student at the University of Alberta, and am here to explore a different domain which uses ML and other techniques. I am interested in AI and it’s applications.
Undergraduate student Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences Isha Acharya Undergraduate student Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences Email: iacharya@uwo.ca Github: ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About	Research Software Developer Co-op Student Department of Medical Biophysics Co-supervised by Dr. Jonathan Lau Mackenzie Snyder Co-supervised by Dr. Jonathan Lau Research Software Developer Co-op Student Department of Medical Biophysics Email: msnyde26@uwo.ca Github: mackenziesnyder ORCiD: Google Scholar: Twitter: About I am a research software developer co-op student in the lab and I am a biomedical engineering undergraduate student from the University of Waterloo. My work in the lab consists of assisting and contributing to various lab software projects in the field of computational neuro imaging.