Lab Members
David Fuentes, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
713-745-3377
dtfuentes@mdanderson.org
Current Members
Rajarajeswari Muthusivarajan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Raji was a T32 Cancer Nanotechnology Postdoctoral Fellow from 2018 to 2020. Her research interests are molecular dynamics simulations and medical image segmentation based on deep learning techniques.
Mohamed Eltaher, M.D.
Research Assistant II
Mohamed is a medical graduate who joined Dr. Fuentes' lab in the fall of 2022. His area of interest isi Image segmentation,mManuscript writing, and data collection.
Rachel Glenn, Ph.D.
Graduate Research Assistant
Dr. Rachel Glenn is currently pursing a Masters in Medical Physics at UTHealth/MD Anderson, Houston, TX. Dr. Glenn has a Ph.D. in condensed Matter Physics studing the absorption of electric and magnetic waves in materials to molecules. She has done postdoctoral positions at University of California, Irvine, Michigan State University, and Virginia Tech. She has done research in the industry. Her research is in the area of Quantum Computing and applying it to Medical Image Processing.
Bilyana Tzolova
Graduate Student
Bilyana Tzolova started as a Ph.D. student in the Computational and Applied Mathematics Department at Rice University in the Fall of 2019. She is co-advised by Dr. David Fuentes and Dr. Beatrice Riviere. Her interests lie in image segmentation, deep learning, and biomedical informatics. She is currently working to more effectively model the hepatic vascular system using computational and deep learning methods.
Alex Balsells
Graduate Student
Alex “Cito” Balsells is a Ph.D. student in the Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research department at Rice University. Through his fellowship from the National Library of Medicine in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, he is advised by Dr. Beatrice Riviere and Dr. David Fuentes. His interests lie at the intersection of clinical practice and machine learning based image segmentation.
Adrian Celaya
Graduate Student
Adrian is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the department of Computional and Applied Mathematics (CAAM) at Rice University, located in Houston, TX. His advisors are Drs. Beatrice Riviere and David Fuentes. His research is centered around creating innovative methods for 3D medical image segmentation and scientific machine learning. Prior to this, he was the information System Security Manager on the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. Adrian joined The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center as a research assistant in the Department of Imaging Physics after leaving the Navy in August 2020.
Former Lab Members
Sri Kamal Kandala, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Javad Sovizi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Reza Madankan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mohab Elmohr
Research Assistant II
Ali Morshid
Research Assistant II
Mohamed Badawy
Research Assistant II
Ahmed Khalaf
Research Assistant II
Ahmed Moawad
Research Assistant II
Evan Gates
Graduate Student
Drew Mitchell
Graduate Student