People

Pictured: Mohana Ramaratnam, Dan Marcus, Tim Olsen, Kevin Archie

Daniel Marcus, Ph.D.

Dan directs the Neuroinformatics Research Group. His informatics interests include data sharing, data mining, and visual representations of brain measures. His scientific interests include neural coding and connectivity, brain morphometry, and genetics of cognitive and neurological phenotypes. Dan spends his free time enjoying life with his wife and kids and managing the Dogtown Inferno, his perennial loser fantasy baseball franchise.

Timothy Olsen

Tim completed Bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, IL and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Illinois State University. He is the lead developer of XNAT. Tim is feverishly renovating his new house under the watchful eyes of his ever expanding family.

Mohana Ramaratnam

Mohana completed her Masters in Mathematics from University of Pune, India. She is the lead developer of XNAT’s image visualization and automated processing technologies. Mohana cooks a mean curried chicken and is the proud mother of Tanuj.

Kevin Archie, Ph.D.

Kevin received a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from the University of Southern California (Go Trojans!) and a B.S. in computer science from CalTech (Go... uh, Beavers!). He recently completed a postdoc in the laboratory of Ralf Wessel in the Physics Dept. at Washington University. He brings a passion for neuroscience and software development to the NRG.

Affiliate Members

Randy Buckner, Ph.D.

Randy is Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (CNL), Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research applies neuroimaging techniques to explore brain areas involved in human memory. Randy has also recently become interested in how information about the healthy brain can help to guide our understanding of damaged and diseased brain states such as occur after a stroke or during the progression of dementia of the Alzheimer Type (DAT). Randy loves when you drink his best scotch, so go ahead and ask for a refill.

Glenn Hoffman

Glenn runs the XNAT deployment division out of William James Hall on the Harvard University campus. Glenn brings many years of user interface design to the NRG team. In his spare time, Glenn can be found reading the New York Times.

Gabrieli Fariello

Gabrieli is the president of Fariel Consulting. He brings expertise in clinical trials and regulatory compliance to the NRG/XNAT team. Gabrieli will be working to bring study management and tracking capabilities into XNAT.