People

Randy Buckner, Ph.D.

Randy is Professor at Harvard and Associate Director of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at MGH. His research develops and applies neuroimaging techniques to explore human memory in health and disease, including promoting tools for managing and sharing data. Before coming to Harvard, Randy was at Washington University where he developed XNAT with the NRG @ WUSTL led by Daniel Marcus. While he loves Boston he is conflicted about his loyalty to the local sports teams.

Tim Clark

Tim is currently the director of research programs at the Initiative for Innovative Computing at Harvard and director at the MIND Center for Interdisciplinary Informatics. He was one of the early developers of NCBI GenBank, and beginning in 1994 founded the highly innovative program in Informatics at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, where he was Vice President of Informatics. From 2002-2003 he chaired the consortium responsible for developing the LSID interoperability specification. In 2003 he was a co-recipient of the Bio-IT World Grand Prize for Best Practices in Pharmaceutical Informatics. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, and is a founding Editorial Board member of the journal Briefings in Bioinformatics. He additionally holds appointments as a Computer Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Neurology at the Harvard Medical School.

Gabriele Fariello

Gabriele is currently the Head of Neuroinformatics at the Neuroinformatics Reasearch Group at Harvard. He brings extensive experience spanning both Computer Science and Bio-science / Neuroscience. He has been working to help create and further NRG since January of 2007.

Glenn Hoffman

Glenn runs the XNAT deployment division out of William James Hall on the Harvard campus. Glenn has both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science from UMass/Boston, and is interested in user Interface design. He has several years experience in designing, implementing and maintaining database backed web sites. In his spare time, Glenn reads non-fiction and can often be found attending book readings and lectures in and around Harvard Square, often capped off by discussion at a nearby pub.

Victor Petrov

Victor is a skilled computer science undergraduate from the American University in Bulgaria doing a summer internship here.

 

Affiliate Members

Daniel Marcus, Ph.D.

Dan directs the Neuroinformatics Research Group at Washington University in St. Louis. His informatics interests include data sharing, data mining, and visual representations of brain measures. His scientific interests include neural coding and connectivity, brain morphometry, and genetics of cognitive and neurological phenotypes. Dan spends his free time enjoying life with his wife and kids and managing the Dogtown Inferno, his perennial loser fantasy baseball franchise.

Timothy Olson

Tim completed Bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, IL and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Illinois State University. He is the lead developer of XNAT. Tim is feverishly renovating his new house under the watchful eyes of his ever expanding family.

Mohanna Ramarataram

Mohana completed her Masters in Mathematics from University of Pune, India. She is the lead developer of XNAT’s image visualization and automated processing technologies. Mohana cooks a mean curried chicken and is the proud mother of Tanuj.

Kevin Archie, Ph.D.

Kevin received a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from the University of Southern California (Go Trojans!) and a B.S. in computer science from CalTech (Go... uh, Beavers!). He recently completed a postdoc in the laboratory of Ralf Wessel in the Physics Dept. at Washington University. He brings a passion for neuroscience and software development to the NRG @ Wash U..

David Kennedy, Ph.D.

David Kennedy is the Director of the Center for Morphometric Analysis at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his BS in Physics from the University of Rochester and MS and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. He came to the MGH in 1988.

Georgios Asteris

Georgios Asteris studied philosophy of science at Boston University, and holds an MS in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He worked as a software engineer at Computerized Library Systems and Kodak. In 1993-95 he was a Graduate Fellow at the Dibner Institute at MIT, where he developed simulations investigating the statistics of the Luria-Delbrück distribution in bacterial genetics. From 1996 to 2003 he worked in the Informatics group at Millennium Pharmaceuticals developing systems for human genetic analysis and mRNA transcription analysis.