Research Interests
Image and video processing, computer vision, computer graphics, computational vision, biomedical imaging, brain imaging, cryo-tomography of viruses, computational tools in cryo-tomography, computational tools in early diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, differential geometry and differential equations, scientific computation, learning and high dimensional data analysis, sparse modeling and dictionary learning, applied mathematics.
Selected Grants
Duke-NCCU Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Child Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Conditions Program (DN-IPT)
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029Duke University Psychiatry Physician-Scientist Residency Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029Caregiver Coaching to Improve Outcomes of Young Autistic Children in Africa
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2022 - 2027Accurate, low-cost, trackerless neuronavigation for transcranial magnetic stimulation
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health · 2022 - 2027Stratifying the Heterogeneity of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Impact of Co-Occurring Anxiety and ADHD
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2021 - 2026CIF: Small: Foundations and Applications of Blind Subgroup Robustness
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025Feeling and Body Investigators (FBI)-ARFID Division: Sensory and Somatic Exposure for Children with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2025Novel Approaches to Infant Screening for ASD in Pediatric Primary Care
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2025Learning and Explaining Information Dynamics from Overhead Imagery
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · 2019 - 2024Apple Research Projects
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Apple Corporation · 2023 - 2024Causality in the Real World: From Geometry to Privacy Foundations
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2024 - 2024A computational approach for quantifying motor behaviors in spinocerebellar ataxias to improve early detection of motor signs and precisely estimate disease severity and disease change
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Massachusetts General Hospital · 2021 - 2024Scalable Computational Platform For Active Closed-Loop Behavioral Coding in Autism Spectrum Disorder
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024Novel see and treat strategies for cervical cancer prevention in low-resource settings
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024Fundamentals and Applications in Learned Information Representation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2020 - 2023HDR TRIPODS: Innovations in Data Science: Integrating Stochastic Modeling, Data Representation, and Algorithms
ResearchSenior Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2023Learning Privacy for the Internet of Visual Things
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cisco Systems, Inc. · 2018 - 2023CIF: AF: Small: Foundations of Multimodal Information Integration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2023Uncovering Population-Level Cellular Relationships to Behavior via Mesoscale Networks
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2023Digital Behavioral Outcome Measures for Autism
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative · 2019 - 2023Learning Utility-Preserving Private, Fair, and Invariant Representations
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2020 - 2023Tailoring treatment targets for early autism intervention in Africa
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2023Duke Expanded Access Protocol Proposal for the Cord Blood Association Foundation
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Cord Blood Association Foundation · 2020 - 2022Administrative Supplement: SCH: INT: Computational Tools for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2022The Foundations of Dynamic Drone-based Threat Detection
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2022Building a streamlined birth cohort to study autism risk factors and biomarkers
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Drexel University · 2020 - 2022REU Site for Meeting the Grand Challenges in Engineering
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2022GitPaper: A Networked Model of Scientific Review and Dissemination
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2017 - 2021Learning and Privacy in a Closed Environment
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2018 - 2021Explainability and Trade Secrecy in AI-Enabled Clinical Decision Support, Diagnostic, and Predictive Software
ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by Greenwall Foundation · 2019 - 2020Training in Medical Imaging
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2003 - 2020Network Inference and Analysis of Big Dynamic Data
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · 2016 - 2020Modeling, Computations, and Applications in Multimodal Information Integration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2016 - 2019Multimodal Subspace Learning and Modeling of Complex Systems
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Laboratory · 2016 - 2019Network motifs in cortical computation
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - Los Angeles · 2016 - 2019Synaptomes of Mice and Men
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Allen Institute for Brain Science · 2014 - 2019Nonparametric Bayes Methods for Big Data in Neuroscience
ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2019Scalable Quantitative Video Analysis for Online Phenotyping, Early Screening, and Symptom Monitoring for Autism Spectrum Disorders
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative · 2017 - 2018Path Toward MRI with Direct Sensitivity to Neuro-Electro-Magnetic Oscillations
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2018Learning to Exploit Big Data
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · 2013 - 2017Precursors to the development of anxiety disorders in young children with autism spectrum disorder
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2014 - 2017Precursors to the development of anxiety disorders in young children with autism spectrum disorder
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Department of Defense · 2014 - 2017AF: Small: Learning to Parsimoniously Model and Compute with Big Data
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2013 - 2017Visitors to the Information Initiative at Duke
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2015 - 2016Structured and Collaborative Geometric Signal Models for Big Data Analysis: Theory and Applications in Image, Video and Audio RA 3.1.1
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2012 - 2016Informed Signal Models: Theory and Applications in Image Sciences
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2012 - 2016MRI: Development of an Instrument that Monitors Behaviors with OCD and Schizophrenia
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Minnesota · 2013 - 2016Information Acquisition, Analysis, and Integration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Minnesota · 2012 - 2016HARDI Mapping of Disease Effects on the Brain
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - Los Angeles · 2012 - 2014Learning sparse representations for restoration and classification: Theory, Computations, and Applications in Image, Video, and Multimodal Analysis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2012 - 2013External Relationships
- Apple Inc.
- Surgical Information Sciences
- Tanku
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