Lab

Plamena Powla Plamena is a PhD student at the SWLab working on projects related to tau neurofibrillary tangles in cortical brain regions and how their levels are affected by structural and functional connections within and between brain systems. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Rochester (‘21) and an M.S. degree in Biostatistics with a concentration in Statistical Bioinformatics from Northwestern University (’22). Her applied research background is in predictive models, causal inference, and survival analysis. In her free time, she enjoys jet skiing, kayaking, and spending time with her pet Leopard tortoise named Strawberry.
Theyanesh Jayaprakash Theyanesh is pursuing a Master’s in data science from Indiana University Bloomington. Previously, he worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, where he gained extensive experience in healthcare data analytics, focusing on data modeling, ETL processes, data warehousing, and visualization to create business-specific client reporting. As a Research Assistant, he is developing deep learning models to explore Alzheimer's disease, specifically analyzing atrophy patterns and disease progression. He aspires to contribute to mental health research and early cancer detection through sentiment analysis, emotion recognition, and anomaly detection.
Connor Cornelison Connor Cornelison is a first-year Data Science MS student at IU Bloomington, holding an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Indiana University South Bend. He is currently researching sex-specific imaging biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease, modeling using the ABC model. He plans to pursue a career in scientific computing, with a focus on AI-powered data processing.