Students & Trainees

The Biomedical Imaging and AI research cluster is host to many talented students and trainees. Get to know some of them here.

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Apeksha Avinash, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science

Master of Applied Science (MASc) student at the University of British Columbia specializing in Biomedical Technologies. Working as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Robotics and Control Laboratory (RCL), I have a keen interest in the fields of surgical robotics and image processing. Over the...

Delaram Behnami, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science

PhD Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering I am a 4th year PhD Candidate at the Robotics and Controls Laboratory (RCL), in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), UBC. I received my BASc in 2014 in ECE and my MASc in 2016 from Biomedical Engineering (BMEG). I have been...

David Black, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science

David Black is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Tim Salcudean at the Robotics and Controls Laboratory (RCL). He received his BASc in Engineering Physics in 2021 from the University of British Columbia. David’s research focuses on control and artificial intelligence in medical robotics...

Jeffrey Boschman, MASc Student, School of Biomedical Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science, Faculty of Medicine

Jeffrey Boschman is a Master of Applied Science (MASc) student under the supervision of Dr. Ali Bashashati in the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Lab at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He previously received his Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical and Biological Engineering from...

Ben Cardoen, PhD Candidate, Simon Fraser University, Medical Image Analysis Lab

I'm a PhD student in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. I completed a Master in Computer Science at the university of Antwerp in distributed systems and networks where I wrote my thesis on leveraging hyperheuristics for accelerated epidemiology modelling. My current research interests...

Pankaj Gupta, MASc Student, Neuroscience

Pankaj is a fourth-year PhD Neuroscience student with Prof. Tim Murphy at UBC. His research works on techniques to develop novel Brain-Machine-Interfaces that could help recovery from brain injuries such as Stroke. In his free time, he likes to hike, swim, watch movies, and youtube.

Weina Jin , PhD Student, Simon Fraser University, School of Computing Science, Medical Image Analysis Lab

I am a PhD student at the Medical Image Analysis Lab, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, supervised by Prof. Ghassan Hamarneh. My research interest is in explaining AI's decisions to augment physicians' performance. I hold an MD degree and received residency training in Neurology...

Megha Kalia , PhD Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science

Megha's research aims to make Augmented Reality (AR) feasible for robot assisted surgery. In robot assisted surgery a surgeon makes minimal precise incisions by reaching inside a patient’s body using miniature instruments and a camera mounted on robotic arms. The system while providing the same...

Jeanie Malone , PhD Candidate, BC Cancer Research Institute, School of Biomedical Engineering

Jeanie Malone is a PhD candidate in the University of British Columbia’s School of Biomedical Engineering, and holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of British Columbia. At the BC Cancer Research Institute’s Optical Cancer Imaging Lab, she studies the...

Rohit Singla, MD/PhD Student, School of Biomedical Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science, Faculty of Medicine

Rohit Singla is an M.D./Ph.D student under the supervision of Prof. Robert Rohling and Dr. Christopher Nguan. He received his B.A.Sc (CPEN) and M.A.Sc (BME) degrees from the University of British Columbia. In his Ph.D research, Rohit explores the development of intelligent kidney ultrasound. This...

Dongsheng Xiao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health,

I am a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience, and I hold an MD-PhD with a specialization in brain disorders. My research interests are in discovering brain circuits that underlie sensorimotor integration and motor functions. Understanding the neural basis of motor functions would help us find...

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