Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) for FY2012 (June 2015).
Johns Hopkins University Provost's Prize for Faculty Excellence in Diversity - Honorable Mention (Spring 2017)
Farrington Daniels Award for Best Dosimetry Paper in Medical Physics 2012
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (UK) (2020)
The Susan M. Daniels Disability Mentoring Hall of Fame (Class of 2021)
Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (Class of 2022)
Research interests
- Shape analysis of brain structures including hippocampus, cingulate gyrus, planum temporale, superior temporal gyrus, auditory cortex and prefrontal cortex which are implicated in neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, major depression, speech and language processing.
- Physiological fluid mechanics of the cochlear outer hair cell.
- Nonlinear partial differential equations e.g. EPDiff in Computational Anatomy, Webster's Equation in bioacoustics, boundary layer separation in physiological flows.
- Mobile and web applications for auditory training for people with hearing loss using cochlear implants and/or hearing aids.
- Online webcourses in applied mathematics.
Research questions
In the dawn of the Computational Medicine era, we are pursuing these questions:- how different is the shape of the hippocampus in the adolescent female with a risk for depression?
- how can schizophrenia affect thinning in the planum temporale?
- how is it possible for a profoundly deaf child to play music to a high level?
- how can demyelination affect connectivity between structures in the brain?
- how can stress affect the cochlear outer hair cell wall and thus the cochlea?
- is it possible to examine how the deafened brain functions with hearing aids?
- how do we limit the number of CT scans a child undergoes?
- can MR scans be used to predict outcomes in cochlear implantation?
- which part of the left ventricle is affected in sudden cardiac death?
- can we quantify the effect of stroke on speech and language?