Keynote Speaker: Bharat Biswal
BIO
Bharat Biswal is a professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Newark College of Engineering. Before joining the Department of Biomedical Engineering at NJIT, he was a professor of radiology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Dr. Biswal helped create the 1,000 Functional Connectomes Project, which gathers functional brain imaging data from centers around the world. The project created an open resource for mapping and understanding brain functions. The database includes information on 1,400 participants. Researchers from across the globe have downloaded this data more than 50,000 times, which could help clinicians to detect, early on, conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Biswal has also recently co-founded the peer-reviewed journal Brain Connectivity and serves as a co-editor. It is considered to be one of the leading journals for researchers and clinicians interested in brain connectivity. His hope is that a new journal focusing solely on brain connectivity will foster greater research interest in this area.
Keynote Speaker: Chris Rorden
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Chris Rorden holds the SmartState endowed chair of neuroimaging in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina and is the co-director for the McCausland Center for Brain Imaging. He received his PhD from Cambridge University and previously held faculty positions at the University of Nottingham and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr Rorden's primary research goals examine how neuroimaging, brain stimulation and behavioral measures can help us understand and treat the impairments experienced following stroke. In particular, he has investigated the perceptual (spatial neglect) and language (aphasia) syndromes. Spin-offs of this work have included popular open-source neuroimaging tools for visualization (MRIcro, MRIcron, MRIcroGL, Surf Ice) processing (Clinical Toolbox for SPM) and statistics (NPM, NiiStat).
br>Keynote Speaker: Boris Bernhardt
BIO
Boris Bernhardt is Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI). He received his PhD in neuroscience at McGill University and carried out postdoctoral research at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science in Leipzig, Germany. He heads the multimodal imaging and connectome analysis lab. His team is interested in developing and applying integrative neuroimaging and network analytical methods to study brain organization, brain development, and brain disorders, particularly autism spectrum conditions and epilepsy. In 2017, he received the Michael Prize for his contributions to the understanding of whole-brain and network anomalies in drug-resistant epilepsy.
Keynote Speaker: Moo Chung
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Moo K. Chung, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also affiliated with the Department of Statistics and Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior. Dr. Chung received Ph.D. in Statistics from McGill University under Keith J. Worsley and James O. Ramsay on Computational Neuroanatomy. His research concentrates on the methodological development required for quantifying and contrasting anatomical shape and network variations in both normal and clinical populations using various mathematical, statistical and computational techniques.
