Team
Principal Investigator
Eran Dayan, Ph.D.
Eran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology, and a faculty member at the Biomedical Research Imaging Center. He completed his Ph.D. in Neuroscience, working in the departments of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Brain Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and was then a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. He joined UNC-Chapel Hill in 2016.
Email: eran_dayan(at)med.unc.edu
Postdoctoral Fellows and Guest Scholars
Kichang Kwak, Ph.D.
Kichang obtained his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea. Before joining the lab he was a Postdoctral Fellow at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Kichang is studying brain organization and reorganization in Alzheimer’s disease using deep learning approaches.
Na Young Shin, M.D., Ph.D.
Belfin RV, Ph.D.
Graduate Students and Research Assistants
William Stanford, B.S.
William has undergraduate degrees in Neuroscience and Math from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is a second year graduate student in the Neuroscience Curriculum of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program. William is interested in studying mechanisms by which the brains of individuals are differentially impacted in aging and neurodegenerative disease. He’s also interested in the application of deep learning to build generative models of the brain that can then be systematically modified for further characterization of these mechanisms.
Undergraduate Students
Keerti Kalluru
Keerti is a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill double majoring in Nutrition and Human Development & Family Studies. Keerti is assisting projects focused on brain network connectivity in neurodegenerative diseases.
Shivam Gandhi
Shivam is a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in Biology. He is interested in co-morbidities in Alzheimer’s disease.
Lab Alumni
| Sandra Alvarez, B.S. | Rotation PhD Student (BCB/BBSP) | 2018 |
| Nil Aygun, B.S., M.Sc. | Rotation PhD Student (BCB/BBSP) | 2019 |
| Arianna Casconne, B.S. |
Rotation PhD Student (Neuro/BBSP) | 2019 |
| Kevin Chen, B.S. |
Undergraduate Student |
2017-2019 |
| Joseph Flesch |
Undergraduate Student | 2021 |
| Stephanie Langella, Ph.D. |
Graduate Student | 2019-2021 |
| Monica Lyons, B.S. |
Rotation MD/PhD Student (MD/PhD Program) | 2020 |
| Paige Leonhardt, B.S. | Undergraduate Student | 2017-2018 |
| Haley Prakke, B.S |
Undergraduate Student | 2019-2021 |
| Celia Rousseau, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Fellow | 2017-2018 |
| Marc Rudolph, B.S. |
Graduate Research Assistant |
2020 |
| Usman Sadiq, Ph.D. |
Postdoctoral Fellow | 2019-2021 |
| Chia-Hao Shih, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Fellow | 2017-2019 |
| Amber Tang, B.S. | Undergraduate Student |
2017-2019 |
| Josh Thomas, B.S | Undergraduate Student | 2018-2019 |
| Alice Woolard, B.S |
Rotation PhD Student (Neuro/BBSP) | 2020-2021 |