As the DAIRC for the ABCD Study, our key responsibilities include 1) establishment of a harmonized MRI acquisition protocol, compatible with all major scanner platforms; 2) central capture, secure transfer, and storage of many different types of data; 3) rigorous quality control and quantitative calibration procedures; 4) centralized image processing and information extraction; 5) statistical analysis tools and procedures for the integration of longitudinal information across measures and modalities; and 6) public sharing of data and tools.
The data analysis, informatics & resource center of ABCD is dedicated to an open approach to scientific research, where data and analysis methods are accessible to all levels of inquiry, amateur or professional. This includes an open source/open methodology driven software development with publicly available software repositories that document ongoing data collection, data analysis and data sharing. The published tools have been developed following the ABCD results-based accountability model and implement the best-practices developed by the ABCD study.
Click here to learn more about our Study Procedures. Click the following links for Imaging Analysis and MRI Acquisition.
Janosch Linkersdörfer, Ph.D.
Director, Data Science, Management, & Release
Don Hagler, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Imaging
Rongguang Yang, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Bioinformatics
Wesley Thompson, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Biostatistics
Kevin Lai, Ph.D.
CC-DAIRC Data Scientist, Data Management
Olivier Celhay, M.Sc.
CC-DAIRC Data Scientist, Data Management
Amanda (Lin) Li, M.S.
CC-DAIRC Data Scientist, Data Management
Erika Bolden
REDCap Developer/Administrator
Laika Aguinaldo, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator
Tim Brown, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator
Joshua Kuperman, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator, Imaging Protocol Developer
David Wing, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator
Leo Sugrue, M.D., Ph.D.
Lead Neuroradiologist
Chun Chieh Fan, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Programmer
Brian Barry
Programmer Analyst
Chris Blazej
Program Analyst
Qin Zhang
Programmer Analyst
Brandon Tsui
Programmer Analyst
Shermaine Abad
Data Analyst
Sammy Berman, M.Sc.
Data Science Project Manager
Biplabendu [Billu] Das, Ph.D.
Data Scientist/Manager
Wenjie Zheng, M.A.
Data Analyst
Alex DeCastro, M.S.
Information Systems Analyst
Tanniel Simonian
Consultant
Robert Loughnan, Ph.D.
Bioinformatician; Post Doctoral Fellow
Laura Ziemer, M.S.
REDCap & Airtable Developer
Diliana Pecheva, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Tyler Berkness, M.S.
Staff Research Associate
Amanda Plesa
Staff Research Associate
David Zimmerman
Staff Research Associate