Our laboratory is deeply integrated in the innovative research and teaching carried out by the Department of Medicine’s Section for Quantitative Health. We use AI as a vehicle to integrate cutting-edge image science, spatial biology, clinical science, basic research, and engineering. Our AI faculty members also participate in graduate biomedical and medical programs. As part of this effort, Dr. Sarder is seeking motivated trainees or students to join his research group and focus on our novel research direction.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Pinaki Sarder

Research
Assistant scientist
Ahmed Naglah (Lead)
Research: AI and Computational Pathology

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Fatemeh Afsari
Research: Deep Learning, Computational Pathology

Data SCientist iii
Dhiraj Srivastava
Research: AI in Computational Pathology
Expertise: Computer Vision, Deep Learning in Life Sciences, Multi-scale Image Analysis in Life Sciences, Data Management

OPS Employee
Srujith Reddy Narra
Research: AI in Computational Pathology

MS STUDENT, COMPUTER SCIENCE
Harshit Lohaan
Research: Biomedical Image Analysis

MS STUDENT, COMPUTER SCIENCE
Manoj Kumar Galla
Research: Computational Pathology

MS Student, Computer science
Durga Sritha Dongla
Research: Computational Pathology

Production
ASSISTANT SCIENTIST
Anindya Sankar Paul (Lead)
Expertise: Deep Learning, Federated Learning, Secure and Privacy Preserving AI, Signal Processing, Medical Imaging

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Sayat Mimar
Expertise: AI, Data Science, Software Development

DATA MANAGEMENT ANALYST
Haitham Magdy
Expertise: Web and Mobile Software Development

Software engineer, AI/ML
Suhas Katari Chaluva Kumar
Expertise: Systems Analyst and Machine Learning

Software engineer, AI/ML
Sumanth Devarasetty
Expertise: Software Development and Machine Learning

MS STUDENT, COMPUTER SCIENCE
Anish Tatke
Expertise: Image analysis and Machine learning

MS Student, ECE
Shamit Savant
STUDENT ASSISTANT

MS Student, computer science
Venkata Deepika Potu
STUDENT ASSISTANT

PhD Students
Ph.d. sTUDENT, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Samuel Border (Lead)
Research: Computational Pathology

PH.D. STUDENT, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Nicholas Lucarelli
Research: Computational Pathology

ERS AI PH.D. Fellow, health outcomes and biomedical informatics
Akshita Gupta
Research: Computational Pathology

PH.D. STUDENT, ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Jamie L. Fermin
Research: Computational Pathology

PH.D. STUDENT, ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Harishwar Reddy
Research: AI for Healthcare, Machine learning, Secure and Trustworthy AI, Image Processing

PH.D. STUDENT, ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Jingyi Xu
Research: Computational Pathology

Data & Project Management
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Lillian Atchison (Lead)
Lab Coordinator III

University of florida
Christina Beharry
Clinical Research Coordinator

MS Student, ISOM
Priya Hanuman
OPS Administrative Assistant

Undergraduate Trainees
Bs STUDENT, Computer science
Julio A Maragall
Undergraduate Research Trainee

Alumni
Ujwala Guttikonda | Master’s and OPS Student, 2023-2024 | Now Software Engineer at Amazon |
Nitesh Varanasi | Master’s and OPS Student, 2024 | Computer Science Graduate at University of Florida |
Suraj Ramadugu | Master’s and OPS Student, 2023-2024 | Now Software Engineer at Egen |
Nikhil Yerra | Master’s and OPS Student, 2022-2024 | Now Software Engineer OPS at University of Florida |
Josiane Uwumukiza | Undergraduate Student, Summer 2024 | Computer Science and Biochemistry Undergraduate at Wellesley College |
Ishaq Ansari | Undergraduate Student, Summer 2024 | Biology and Computer Science Undergraduate at Caldwell University. |
Lin Xu | Undergraduate Student, Summer 2023 | |
Daniel Giraldo | Undergraduate Student, Summer 2023 | Now working with Arthrex, UF Integrated Product & Process Design program |
Neil Kavthekar | Master’s Student, 2020-21 | Now Data Scientist, New York Presbyterian Hospital |
Brandon Ginley | OPS Student, 2015-16, Ph.D. Student, 2016-21, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2021-22 | Now Data Scientist, Johnson & Johnson |
Brendon Lutnick | OPS Student, 2015-16, Ph.D. Student, 2016-21 | Now Data Scientist, Johnson & Johnson |
Darshana Govind | Ph.D. Student, 2016-21 | Now Data Scientist, Johnson & Johnson |
Kathryn Maraszek | Undergraduate Student, 2019-20 | Now Ph.D. Student, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center |
Avinash K Shashiprakash | Master’s Student, 2018-20 | Now Data Scientist, Caterpillar Inc. |
Leema K Murali | Master’s Student, 2018-20 | Now Machine Learning Engineer, Eisai Pharmaceuticals |
Siddhartha Dhiman | Graduate Student, 2017-18 | Senior Software Engineer at Flywheel |
Olivier Simon | Research Associate, 2017 | Founder of LavaRad LLC |