Mithra Sathishkumar

I graduated with a M.S in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. I worked for a year as a research assistant in Dr. Luis Pessoa’s lab at Brown University in Rhode Island, which paved the way for my interest in neuroimaging. Then I moved to Austin where I began working at the newly built Imaging Research center at the University of Texas at Austin, helping with day to day activities in the center. While working at UT Austin, I graduated with my second masters degree in Statistics. In 2018, I joined the Yassa lab, where I am in charge of the lab imaging database, Flywheel. My main work has been on analyzing Structural imaging data for various projects. One of my main projects is to find neuroimaging biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease using structural imaging data in subjects with Downs Syndrome as a part of the Alzheimer’s Biomarkers Consortium – Down Syndrome study.