Program Director

Professor Guorong Wu, PhD

Dr. Wu is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science, Department of Statistics & Operation Research, UNC Neuroscience Center, and Carolina Institute of Developmental Disabilities. Meanwhile, Dr. Wu is also an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research. Dr. Wu is the director of the Advanced Computational Laboratory (ACMLab). Dr. Wu has been teaching COMP/BME 775 (Image Processing and Analysis), COMP 776 (Computer Vision), and NBIO 750 (Neuroanalytics). In the last three years, Dr. Wu has been closely working with the Summer Reserach Program at NCSSM and supervised more than ten high school students

Program Director

Professor Jasleen Kaur, PhD

Jasleen Kaur is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests lie in the design and evaluation of networks and operating systems, with a special focus on mesurements, performance analysis, and protocol design. Her recent research efforts have also focused on K-12 Computer Science Education and on providing research experience in data science to high school students. Jasleen is a recipient of a 2020 Google Faculty Award and a 2004 NSF CAREER Award. Jasleen received her B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1997, where she was also awarded the Motorola Student of the Year Gold Medal. She earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999 and 2002, respectively. She is a recipient of the J.C.Browne Graduate Fellowship and the M.C.D. Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin

Outreach Director

Professor Minjeong Kim, PhD

Dr. Kim is an Associate Professor, Head, and Director of the Advanced Research Image Analysis (ARIA) lab at the Computer Science Department, UNC Greensboro. Her research mainly focuses on deep learning method development for human brain connectome and biomedical image analysis. She teaches Digital Image Processing, Advanced Topics in Image Processing, and Deep Learning in Computer Vision. She dedicates her efforts to promoting student research and broadening the participation of underrepresented groups in computing, including National Students & Technology in Academia, Research & Service (STARS), U-RISE (Undergraduate Research training Initiative for Student Enhancement), and REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates).

Associate Director 

Professor Derek C. Monroe, PhD

Derek Monroe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Exercise & Sport Science at UNC Chapel Hill. Leveraging his multidisciplinary training in neuroscience, psychology, and physiology, Dr. Monroe’s current research uses multimodal brain imaging to define novel measures of brain health in populations that are at risk for TBI and associated long-term sequelae (e.g., athletes, warfighters).

Director Assistant

Malcolm Bailey

Malcolm is a recent graduate from UNC Chapel Hill with interests in machine learning and neuroimage analysis relative to applications in medicine. He currently works in Dr. Wu's advanced computational medicine lab and is in the process of applying to medical school. He has prior experience tutoring mathematics at the college level and assisted team members in creating content for the asynchronous portion of the program.

Director Assistant

Yuyu Zhang

Yuyu is a master‘s graduate from UNC with a major in Information Science. She is interested in data processing and data analysis, and she joined Dr. Wu’s lab in 2022. Now she is working on the UNC-Epic and UNC-Primes projects