Efrat Shimron
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
UC Berkeley
About
I am a postdoc in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley. I have the pleasure of being co-advised by Prof. Michael (Miki) Lustig (UC Berkeley) and Prof. Shreyas Vasanawala (Stanford). I work with their collaborative groups on developing MRI reconstruction methods for pediatric imaging. My research focuses on solving inverse problems in computational MRI by leveraging Machine Learning, image processing and physics-based modelling.
In 2015-2019 I was a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Haim Azhari at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In my PhD research I developed techniques for rapid MRI using Compressed Sensing, with applications to MR-guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgHIFU).
News
March 2021: our abstract "Subtle inverse crimes: Naively using publicly available images could make reconstruction results seem misleadingly better!" was accepted for an oral presentation in the ISMRM conference. Check it out to hear our surprising results!
Abstract number: 0222
Oral Session Name: Machine Learning for Data Acquisition & Image Reconstruction
Session Day: Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Session Time: 12:00 UTC
March 2021: I was elected for the Trainee Representative position in the ISMRM Reproducible Research Study Group Committee (starting June 2021).
December 2020: I gave a tutorial on advanced regularization methods for dynamic MRI as part of the 2nd BART webinar. The recording and python tutorial (Jupyter notebook) are available here.
October 2020: I moved to Berkeley, CA. Excited about joining the labs of Miki Lustig and Shreyas Vasanawala for my postdoc studies!
September 2020: I was awarded the Israel Council for Higher Education (Vatat) National Fellowship for Excelling Post-doctoral Researchers in Data Science for my postdoctoral studies in UC Berkeley and Stanford.
Collaborations
Prof. Andrew Webb, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands.
Chris Sandino, PhD student at Stanford's Electrical Engineering Department.
Prof. Jon Tamir, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE), UT Austin.
Ke Wang, PhD student at UC Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) Department
Prof. Martin Uecker, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Göttingen.
Prof. Stella Yu, Director of the ICSI Vision Group at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.
Prof. William Grissom, Biomedical Engineering Department, Vanderbilt University, TN.
Copyright Efrat Shimron, 2020