Jan Christoph is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and head of the Cardiac Vision Lab. He is a faculty member of the Cardiovascular Research Institute, with appointments in the Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, and the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences. His research interests include cardiac electrophysiology and biomechanics, cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms, the physics of complex biological systems, artificial intelligence, numerical modeling and imaging. Previously, he worked as a researcher in Germany, where he developed novel optical and ultrasound-based imaging techniques for the visualization of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. Read more ...

Jan Lebert is a Postdoc and Computational Researcher at the Cardiac Vision Lab. Jan is interested in the physics of complex systems, computing, artificial intelligence and medical imaging. He obtained a PhD in biophysics and specializes in the prediction of cardiac dynamics using deep learning. Jan was a graduate student at the University of Göttingen in Germany and continued his PhD at UCSF. He graduated in 2023 with 'Summa Cum Laude'.

Jiyue He is a Postdoc at the Cardiac Vision Lab. He studied electrical engineering and computer science and received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was honored with the student recognition award. His research interests include artificial intelligence, numerical modeling, algorithm development, and data analysis. His work aims to improve the precision of clinical atrial fibrillation ablation procedures by modeling the electrophysiological behaviors of the heart. Currently, he is developing AI-based methods for mapping atrial arrhythmias.

Mason Manetta is a Bioengineering PhD student at the Cardiac Vision Lab with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Arizona State University and previous experience in mobile systems research. His research interests include wearable medical devices, EIT imaging, sleep genetics, and cardiac physiology. Current focus areas are calcium-voltage relationships in cardiac tissue and the development of imaging hardware.

Joe Skovron is a Staff Research Associate at the Cardiac Vision Lab. Joe is a graduate of the University of San Francisco from the Department of Physics and Astronomy. As an athlete previously on the Dons cross country and track team, Joe has drawn to human anatomy, medical imaging, and patient care, and how those realms can be tied together with physics. Joe is currently developing algorithms for the processing of ultrasound imaging data.

Tanish Baranwal is an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Cardiac Vision Lab. Tanish is a third-year undergraduate student at UC Berkeley studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and his research interests include deep learning, computer vision, computational biology, and neuroscience. Previously, he worked as a student researcher at the Louis Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara, in evolutionary neuroscience, and is excited to study 3D spiral waves and implement deep learning models to push state-of-the-art capabilities. Tanish has developed diffusion-based modeling of electrophysiological wave phenomena in the heart.

Ali Momennasab is an undergraduate research assistant at the Cardiac Vision Lab. Ali studies Computer Science at the California State Polytechnic University in Pomona and is interested in machine learning and medical imaging. He currently supports the lab's efforts in the processing of ultrasound imaging data.

Shrey Chowdhary is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California in the Physics graduate program. He was a Computational Research Specialist at the Cardiac Vision Lab and remains affiliated with us for the foreseeable future. Shrey obtained a BSc in Computer Science and Physics at the University of Illinois, and he is generally interested in computational physics, high-performance and distributed computing, biophysics, and computer graphics.