Richard Castillo, PhD
Website Developer,
Manager of Data Sharing & Technical Support

Richard Castillo currently holds an appointment as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He recently completed his PhD in the department of Imaging Physics through the UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, where he also earned his M.S. in 2007. His current research interests include quantitative performance evaluation of deformable image registration, and CT-based functional lung imaging.

Email: RiCastillo@MDAnderson.org
Link: Dr. Castillo's Webpage

Edward Castillo, PhD

Edward Castillo currently holds a research scientist position in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. He earned his M.A. (2005) and Ph.D (2007) from the Computational and Applied Mathematics department at Rice University. His current research areas include image processing and surface reconstruction from noisy point cloud data. Dr. Castillo also holds an adjunct appointment in the Computational and Applied Mathematics Department at Rice University.

Email: ecastillo3@MDAnderson.org
Link:Dr. Castillo's Webpage

Sarah Joy, MS

Sarah Joy currently holds a graduate research assistant position in the University of Texas Houston Health Science Center (UTHSC) medical physics PhD program. She received her B.S. in Physics from the University of Florida (2009) and her M.S. (2011) from the UTHSC medical physics program. Her current research areas include acquisition and data processing methods to detect and reduce 4D CT artifacts.

Email: sjoy@mdanderson.org

Michelle S. Ludwig, MD, MPH

Michelle Ludwig is an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She received her M.D. and M.P.H. from Emory University School of Medicine and completed her residency in radiation oncology at M.D. Anderson. Currently, she is a Doctoral Candidate in Epidemiology at the University of Texas School of Public Health.

Email: mludwig@mdanderson.org

Josue Martinez, PhD

Josue Maritnez earned his Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and is currently a tenure track assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Texas A&M Health Sciences Center. His research interests include functional data analysis, medical imaging, and microarray data analysis.

Email: jgmartinez@srph.tamhsc.edu
Link: Dr. Martinez's Webpage

Rudy Guerra, PhD

Dr. Guerra is generally interested in biological problems with an emphasis in biomedical research. Current interests include meta-analysis for genetic linkage studies, case-control studies using haplotype blocks, and identification of multiple genetic markers influencing a single trait. More recently, he has been learning about bioinformatics via macroarray studies and biological pathways. Projects in these areas are motivated by various system biology efforts with University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB, Galveston), Baylor College of Medicine, and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Email: rguerra@stat.rice.edu
Link: Dr. Guerra's Web Page

Valen E. Johnson, PhD

Valen Johnson obtained his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Chicago. Currently, he is Professor and Deputy Chairman of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. His research interests include Bayesian model diagnostics, Bayesian model selection and testing, ordinal data modeling, and medical image analysis.

Email: vejohnson@MDAnderson.org

Thomas Guerrero, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator, DIR-Lab Research

Thomas Guerrero is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. He completed his M.D. and Ph.D (biomedical physics) from the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine in 1997 and residency training in radiation oncology at Stanford University in 2002. His research efforts are focused on physiological and molecular imaging as well as molecular targeted therapy. He has an adjunct appointment in the Computational and Applied Mathematics Department at Rice University.

Dr. Guerrero is also the proud recipient of the NIH Director's 2010 New Innovator Award.

Email: TGuerrero@MDAnderson.org