Research Scientist

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Education
•  Diploma, Psychology, Aquinas College, Sri Lanka
•  Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, India
•  M.S., Electrical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
•  Ph.D., Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology

Positions
•  2002 – 2004    Research Assistant, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Tech., NY
•  2004 – 2006    Research Assistant, Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Tech., NY
•  2006    Junior Fellowship, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
•  2006 – 2007    Junior Fellow, The Very Large Array, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, NM
•  2007 – 2009    Research Assistant, The Mind Research Network (MRN), Albuquerque, NM, USA
•  2009 – present    Research Scientist, The Mind Research Network (MRN), Albuquerque, NM, USA.

Honors
•  1997-2001    Recipient of one of five full scholarships in Engineering offered by Government of India to Sri Lanka
•   2003-2007    Multiple awards at Rochester Institute of Tech for excellence in academics, teaching, student service and achievement

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
1.    Michael, A.M., Fries, J.F., Baum, S.A., Andreasen, N.C., Calhoun, V.D., “Correlations between Multiple Brain Imaging Tasks to Characterize Schizophrenia,” proceeding of IEEE SSIAI, Santa Fe, NM, March 2008

2.    Michael, A.M., Calhoun, V.D., Baum, S.A., Caprihan, A. “Correlations of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Values and Symptom Scores in Patients with Schizophrenia”, proceeding of IEEE EMBS, Vancouver, BC, August 2008

3.    Michael, A.M., Calhoun, V.D., Andreasen, N.C., Baum, S.A. “A Method to Classify Schizophrenia Using Inter-Task Spatial Correlations of Functional Brain Images”, proceeding of IEEE EMBS, Vancouver, BC, August 2008

4.    Demirci, O., Stevens, M., Andreasen, N., Michael, A.M., Liu, J., White, T., Pearlson, G., Clark, V., Calhoun, V., 2009. “Investigation of relationships between fMRI brain networks in the spectral domain using ICA and Granger causality reveals distinct differences between schizophrenia patients and healthy controls”. Neuroimage 46, 419-431.

5.    Michael, A.M., Baum, S., Fries, J., Ho, B., Pierson, R., Andreasen, N., Calhoun, V., 2009. “A method to fuse fMRI tasks through spatial correlations: Applied to schizophrenia”. Human Brain Mapping 30, 2512-2529. PMCID: PMC2711995

6.    Michael, A.M., Baum, S.A., White, T., Demirci, O., Andreasen, N.C., Segall, J.M., Jung, R.E., Pearlson, G., Clark, V., Gollub, R.L., Schulz, S.C., Roffman, J.L., Lim, K.O., Ho, B.C., Bockholt, H.J., Calhoun, V.D., 2009. “Does Function Follow Form?: Methods to Fuse Structural and Functional Brain Images Show Decreased Linkage in Schizophrenia”. Neuroimage, in press.