SSCC Staff

Scientific and Statistical Computing Core


SSCC is the Scientific and Statistical Computing Core of the NIMH Intramural Research Program. The primary function of this core is to support functional neuroimaging research at the NIH. This includes development of new data analysis techniques, their implementation in the AFNI software, advising researchers on the analysis methods, and instructing them in the use of software tools.

Paul A. Taylor
Core Director for the SSCC


 Paul has been staff scientist in the SSCC since 2015, and has been 
 Core Director since 2023. He works on many ofthe diffusion weighted
 imagings tools in AFNI, as well as on the FMRI and generalprocessing
 ones. He also likes data visualizaton and quality control (QC). 
 
                       E-mail: paul.taylor @ nih.gov
                                                        Phone: 301-402-1352
                                                        Office: Building 10, Room 1D73
                                                        Bethesda MD, 20892

Paul Taylor's Google scholar page:

 

Gang Chen


  Gang Chen started in March 2003 as a Mathematical Statistician.
  He provides consulting on any statistics-related issues, and keeps
  developing new statistical tools in AFNI.

          E-mail: gangchen @ mail.nih.gov
          Phone: 301-594-9193
                                             Office: Building 10, Room 1D73      
Gang's Home page

 

Daniel Glen


  Daniel Glen started in November 2004 as a Computer Engineer.
  Daniel has a BS from Johns Hopkins University in Chemical Engineering. Before coming to
  NIH, his prior work was with the US Navy as electrochemical research scientist where he
  developed and analyzed battery materials. he then worked with a nuclear medicine
  equipment manufacturer as a software engineer. At NIH, he worked in the laboratory
  of Louis Sokoloff on cerebral glucose metabolism and blood flow. His interest
are now mostly on issues related to human and animal atlases and template, spatial alignment and
the development of new visualization methods. 

 

E-mail: glend at mail.nih.gov Phone: 301-451-6236 Office: Building 10, Room 2D40 Daniel's Home Page

 

 

Rick Reynolds


  Rick Reynolds started in Dec 2001 as a Computer Scientist in the Core.
  

              Email: reynoldr @ mail.nih.gov
              Phone: 301-451-6234
              Office: Building 10, Room 2D40

 

Brian Pittman 


 Brian Pittman is the System/Web Administrator of the Core.
 He maintains the AFNI and NIfTI web sites.

              Email: pittmanb @ nih.gov
              Phone: 301-451-6233
              Office: Building 10, Room 2D40

 

 

Portia Devenish


 In March 2019, Portia Devenish began working at NIMH as a lab coordinator.
 As a dependable lab administrative specialist, she is skilled in organizing,
 coordinating, multitasking, anticipating needs, interacting with vendors,
 overseeing daily operations across four laboratories, and serving as
 a conduit between the lab and the outside world.  Her favorite quote is,
 "Success isn't about the money you make; it is about the difference
you make in people's lives."

                                                      E-mail: portia.devenish @ nih.gov
                                                      Phone: 301-367-7973
                                                      Office: Building 10, Room 1D73
                                                                  Bethesda MD, 20892

 

 

Justin K. Rajendra 


 Justin joined in 2017 after more than a decade of clinical research in various
 neuroscience related fields (depression, post stroke rehabilitation, mindfulness,
 chronic fatigue). Modalities included fMRI, PET, fNIRS, TMS, EMG, EEG,
 motion capture, clinical performance measures. He previously worked at
 Emory University in the department of Psychiatry as a research informatics analyst.

                                                             Email: justin.rajendra @ nih.gov
                                                             Phone: 301-451-6235
                                                             Office: Building 10, Rm 2D40
Justin's Google scholar page:
 

Yamuna Narayana Swamy  


 Yamuna studied medical image analysis and inverse problems in Diffuse optical
 tomography for her graduate studies. Following this she worked as a research
 associate in the astrophysical relativity group at ICTS where she worked on
 parameter estimation in gravitational waves. She joined the AFNI group in
 September 2020 as a postdoc, and currently she is working on implementing
 deep learning methods on MRI image analysis.

                                                                  E-mail: yamuna.narayanaswamy @ nih.gov
                                                                                                       

Peter Lauren


 Peter Lauren joined the group in September, 2020.  He completed a
 BSc in Physics at Otago University, New Zealand, a Masters in Biomedical
 Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia and a
 PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia. 
 His professional interests are the application of image processing,
 and data science, to the biomedical field.

                                                                   E-mail: peter.lauren @ nih.gov

Peter's Google scholar page:

 

 

Robert W. Cox


   Bob is a Special Volunteer with the SSCC. He is particulary special​RWC 
   because he started AFNI and was the Core Director from 2001-2021.
   His interests include algorithms, optimization, data visualization,
   processing, alignment and more.             

           E-mail: rwcox @ nih.gov
           
           
                      
Bob's Home page

 



SSCC Alumni/ae



 

Elaine Raab
John Lee 
Abera Wouhib 
Ziad S. Saad
Hang Joon Jo

Julie Maloney
Andrej Vovk

Peggy Christidis
Rich Hammett
Alex Clark