People

Faculty

Rizwan Ahmad, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
460 W 12th Ave, Room 318
Office: (614) 293 6251
Email: ahmad.46@osu.edu
Research Interests:
signal processing and machine learning with application to cardiovascular MRI

Research Staff

Chong Chen, Ph.D.

Research Engineer
Biomedical Engineering
The Ohio State University
Email: chen.7211@osu.edu
Research Interests:
signal processing, compressive sensing, machine learning, and high-performance computing

Chong is co-advised by Dr. Ahmad and Dr. Potter.

Preethi Chandrasekaran, M.S.

Research Associate
Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute
The Ohio State University
Email: preethi.chandrasekaran@osumc.edu
Research Interests:
stress imaging, experiment design, data analysis, bioinformatics

Graduate Students

Matt Bendel, B.S.

Ph.D. Student and Research Associate
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Email: bendel.8@osu.edu
Research Interests:
generative models for MRI recovery.

Matt is co-advised by Dr. Ahmad and Dr. Schniter.

Jeffrey Wen, M.S.

Ph.D. Student and Research Associate
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Email: wen.254@osu.edu
Research Interests:
invertible models for MRI recovery.

Jeffrey is co-advised by Dr. Ahmad and Dr. Schniter.

Syed Murtaza Arshad, B.S.

Ph.D. Student and Research Associate
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Email: arshad.32@osu.edu
Research Interests:
phase-contrast and 4D flow imaging, machine learning, compressive sensing, and retrospective motion compensation

Murtaza is co-advised by Dr. Ahmad and Dr. Potter.

Xuan Lei, B.S.

Ph.D. Student and Research Associate
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Email: lei.337@osu.edu
Research Interests:
dynamic MRI using deep learning-based methods.

Xuan is co-advised by Dr. Ahmad and Dr. Schniter.

Muhammad Ahmad Sultan, B.S.

Ph.D. Student and Research Associate
Biomedical Engineering
The Ohio State University
Email: sultan.47@osu.edu
Research Interests:
Self-supervised deep learning reconstruction for cardiac MRI

Past Trainees

  • Sizhuo Liu, Ph.D. 2023, “Plug-and-Play Methods for Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction,” Current position: Post-doctoral scholar at Stanford
  • Jacob Hatef, undergraduate honors thesis, 2021-2023
  • Mihir Joshi, undergraduate researcher, 2021-2022
  • Shen Zaho, Ph.D. 2022, “K-space reconstruction and velocity estimation in magnetic resonance imaging,” co-advised by Dr. Potter. Current position: Post-doctoral scholar at Stanford
  • Aaron Pruitt, Ph.D. 2021, “Pushbutton 4D imaging”. Current position: Clinical MR Research Scientist with Siemens Healthineers
  • Michael Gregg, undergraduate researcher 2019-2021
  • Abhishek Vijaykumar, undergraduate honors thesis, 2019-2021
  • Jiayu Pu, undergraduate researcher, 2019-2020
  • Adam Rich, post-doctoral researcher, 2018-2019. Current position: Data Scientist at Battelle
  • Michael Bush, Ph.D. 2019, “Patient-specific prospective respiratory motion correction in cardiovascular MRI,” co-advised by Dr. Simonetti. Current position: Head of MR Collaborations Northeast Zone with Siemens Healthineers
  • Yuan Wang, M.S. 2018, “Comparing the sparsity of cardiac MRI data under shearlet and wavelet transforms”
  • Shen Zhao, M.S. 2017, “Chinese Remainder Theorem for Phase Unwrapping, with application to Magnetic Resonance Flow Imaging” (co-advised by Dr. Potter)
  • Christopher Ebersole, M.S. 2017, ”A Bayesian Method for Accelerated Magnetic Resonance Elastography of the Liver” (co-advised by Dr. Kolipaka)
  • Kovid Bhatnagar, M.S. 2016, “Liver Segmentation by Geometric and Texture Features using Support Vector Machine (LiGTS)” (co-advised by Dr. Kolipaka)