alumni

See a list of former students whom I supervised.

Nina Cheng

Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, China

2025 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Deep generative model for synthesising and analysing cardiac magnetic resonance images"

Supervision: Ravikumar N, Frangi A F.

Cynthia L Maldonado

Research Associate, Queen Mary University of London, UK

2025 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Multi-Modal Deep Learning for Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis and Risk Prediction Using Retinal Imaging"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Ravikumar N.

Qiongyao Liu

Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, China

2025 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Calibration and acceleration of thrombosis modelling in intracranial aneurysms"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Lassila T, Sarrami A.

Haoran Dou

Research Associate, University of Manchester, UK

2025 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Virtual Cardiac Populations: Leveraging Generative Deep Learning for Advanced In-Silico Trials"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Ravikumar N, Virtanen S.

Kun Wu

Lecturer, The College of Information, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

2025 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Deep learning-based and motion-compensated reconstruction for undersampled cardiac MRI"

Supervision: Ravikumar N, Frangi A F, Lassila T.

Fengming Lin

Research Associate, University of Manchester

2025 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Vessel Tree Segmentation and Modality Agnostic Aneurysm Detection"

Supervision: Frangi A F.

Yash Deo

Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of York

2025 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Deep learning with simulated data for medical imaging"

Supervision: Lasila T, Frangi A F.

Shokoufeh Golshani

Research Associate, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London

2024 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Accelerating cardiac diffusion MRI: concepts and applications"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Schneider J E.

Michael MacRaild

Research Associate at The University of Manchester

2024 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Efficient Ensemble Simulation Methods for In-Silico Trials of Endovascular Medical Devices"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Lassila T, Sarrami A.

Rodrigo Bonazzola

Postdoctoral researcher at EMBL-EBI

2024 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Statistical learning methods in deep cardiac phenotyping for population imaging and imaging genetics"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Ravikumar N.

Ning Bi

Postdoctoral Researcher in Medical AI | Generative Models in CT Image Analysis @ NDS | University of Oxford

2024 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Bayesian Deep Learning for Cardiac Motion Modelling and Analysis"

Supervision: Zakeri A, Taylor Z A, Frangi A F, Ravikumar N.

Xiang Chen

Assistant Professor, School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha, China

2024 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Deep Learning in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Image Analysis and Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis"

Supervision: Ravikumar N, Frangi A F, Lassila T.

Mojtaba Lashgari

Postdoctoral Researcher, the University of Oxford, UK

2023 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"An In Silico Imaging Framework for Microstructure-Sensitive Myocardial Diffusion-Weighted MRI"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Schneider J E, Ravikumar N, Teh I.

Russel T Frood

CRUK Clinical Trials Fellow at University of Leeds and Honorary Consultant Radiologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

2023 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"The use of machine learning/deep learning in PET/CT interpretation to aid in outcome prediction in lymphoma"

Supervision: Scarsbrook A, Frangi A F, Tsoumpas C, Gleeson F.

Abdolrahman Attar

Lecturer, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

2020 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Quantitative Analysis of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Population Imaging"

Supervision: Frangi A F.

Santiago Coelho

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, USA

2019 University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)

"Diffusion MRI for Well-posed and Optimal White Matter Microstructure Characterisation: Beyond Single Diffusion Encoding"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Pozo J M.

Le Zhang

Assistant Professor in Digital Healthcare Engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK

2019 University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK)

"Image quality assessment for population cardiac MRI: from detection to synthesis"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Jewell G.

Ali Sarrami-Foroushani

Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Biomechanics, the University of Manchester, UK

2018 University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK)

"In silico clinical trials for assessment of intracranial flow diverters"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Lassila T.

Redzuan Manap

Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Sheffield, UK

2018 University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK)

"New learning frameworks for blind image quality assessment model"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Shao L.

Mohsen Farzi

Machine Learning Scientist in Digital Pathology, The University of Leeds, UK

2018 University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK)

"Bone Ageing and Osteoporosis: Automated DXA Image Analysis for Population Imaging"

Supervision: Wilkinson J M, Frangi A F.

Marco Pereanez

Programmer Analyst II, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, USA

2017 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

"Enlargement, Subdivision and Individualization of Statistical Shape Models: Application to 3D Medical Image Segmentation"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Lekadir K.

Bo Dong

Researcher at The University of Sheffield

2017 University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK)

"High-throughput Image Analysis of Zebrafish Model of Parkinson's Disease"

Supervision: Frangi A F.

Nishant Ravikumar

Lecturer in Machine Learning, The University of Leeds, UK

2017 University of Sheffield

"A Probabilistic Framework for Statistical Shape Models and Atlas Construction: Application to Neuroimaging"

Supervision: Taylor Z A, Frangi A F.

Serkan Cimen

Senior Research Scientist at Siemens Healthineers, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

2017 University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK)

"Reconstruction of Coronary Arteries from X-ray Rotational Angiography"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Gooya A.

Xenia Alba

Project Manager, Fundació Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain

2017 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

"Automated Cardiac MR Image Analysis for Population Imaging"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Lekadir K.

Rui Hua

Principal Data Scientist at abrdn, UK

2017 University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK)

"Non-rigid Medical Image Registration with Extended Free Form Deformations: Modelling General Tissue Transitions"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Pozo J M.

Matthias Lange

Algorithms and Simulation in Cardiology, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

2017 University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK)

"Exploration of the Human Purkinje Network in Virtual Populations"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Lassila T.

Antonio R Porras-Perez

Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Public Health, and Research Director, Pediatric Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Children's Hospital Colorado

2015 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

"Multi-cue Image Integration for Cardiac Tissue Characterization"

Supervision: Piella G, Frangi A F.

Isaac Castro-Mateos

Lead Data Scientist at Vyntelligence, London, UK

2015 University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK)

"Statistical Anatomical Modelling for Efficient and Personalized Spine Biomechanical Models"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Pozo J M.

Arjan H. Geers

Software Engineer at Planet Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands

2015 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

"Hemodynamic Modeling of Cerebral Aneurysms"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Larrabide I.

Corne Hoogendoorn

Research engineer, Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems, Edinburgh, UK

2014 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

"A Statistical Dynamic Cardiac Atlas for the Virtual Physiological Human: Construction and Application"

Supervision: Frangi A F.

Tristan Whitmarsh

Research Associate, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

2012 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

"{3D} Reconstruction of the Proximal Femur and Lumbar Vertebrae from Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry for Osteoporotic Fracture Risk Assessment"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Humbert L.

Hernan Morales

Researcher at Dassault Systèmes, Vélizy-Villacoublay, Île-de-France, France

2012 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

"Endovascular Coiling and Its Influence on Intra-aneurysmal Hemodynamics by Image-based"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Larrabide I.

Hrvoje Bogunovic

Faculty at the Medical University of Vienna, Director of Christian Doppler Lab for Artificial Intelligence in Retina, Vienna, Austria

2012 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

"Geometric Modeling and Characterization of the Circle of Willis"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Pozo J M.

Nicholas Duchateau

Associate Professor at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France

2012 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

"Statistical Atlases of Motion and Deformation for the Characterization of Crt Responders"

Supervision: Frangi A F, {De Craene} M.

Chong Zhang

Researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

2011 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

"Recovery of Cerebrovascular Morphodynamics from Time-resolved Rotational Angiography"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Villa-Uriol M C.

Catalina Tobon-Gomez

Data visualization engineer at Nicolab Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands

2011 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

"Three-dimensional Statistical Shape Models for Cardiac Image Analysis"

Supervision: Frangi A F.

Sri-Kaushik Pavani

Amazon, Greater Seattle Area, USA

2010 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

"Face Detection and Adaptive Face Recognition Systems"

Supervision: Frangi A F, Delgado D.

Constantine Butakoff

Data analysis, R&D at ELEM Biotech, Barcelona, Spain

2009 Universidad de Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain)

"Efficient Techniques for Statistical Shape Model Building and Fusion"

Supervision: A. F. Frangi.

Estanislao Oubel

Lead Image Processing Engineer, Intrasense, Greater Montpellier Metropolitan Area, France

2008 Universidad de Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain)

"Registration-based Motion and Deformation Analysis of Cardiovascular Image Sequences"

Supervision: Frangi A F.

Federico M. Sukno

Deputy Director Teaching, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain

2008 Universidad de Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain)

"Invariance and Reliability for Statistical Shape Models"

Supervision: Frangi A. F..