Doheny Image Reading & Research Lab
Principal Investigator
SriniVas R. Sadda, MD, FARVO
Professor of Ophthalmology
SriniVas R. Sadda, MD, is the Principal Investigator for Doheny Image Reading and Research Lab (DIRRL), Director of Artificial Intelligence & Imaging Research at the Doheny Eye Institute, and Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) Geffen School of Medicine. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins University, where he also completed ophthalmology residency and neuro-ophthalmology and medical retina fellowships (Wilmer Eye Institute). He served as Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins before being recruited to Doheny.
Dr. Sadda’s major research interests include retinal image analysis, advanced retinal imaging technologies, and clinical trial endpoint design. He has more than 600 peer-reviewed publications and 20 book chapters and has given over 450 presentations worldwide. Dr. Sadda also serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Graefe’s and is an editorial board member of Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers & Imaging, Retina, Ophthalmology Retina, Ophthalmology Science and Ophthalmology. Among Dr. Sadda’s awards and honors are a Research to Prevent Blindness Physician-Scientist Award, a Senior Honor Award from the American Society of Retina Specialists, an Achievement Award and a Secretariat Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, John H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Award, the Macula Society Young Investigator Award, Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Achievement Award, The Macula Society Paul Henkind Lecture and Award, and American Society of Retina Specialists Young Investigator Award. He is also a Gold Fellow and Trustee (Retina) for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. He has been named to the Best Doctors of America list for several consecutive years.
Research Team
Kenneth Marion, MS, MBA
Assistant Director
Kirstie Baker
Senior Research Coordinator
(2015-current)
Research Team (full-time)
Kenneth Marion
Director
Rouzbeh Abbasgholizadeh
Research Fellow
Kirstie Baker
Senior Research Coordinator
Shinichiro Chujo
Research Fellow
Giulia Corradetti
Doheny Scientist
Paulo Forte
Research Fellow
Jianfeng Huang
Research Fellow
Muneeswar Gupta Nittala
Senior Research Associate
Alberto Quarta
Research Fellow
Ceren Soylu
Research Fellow
Swetha Bindu Velaga
Research Associate
Research Team (part-time)
Aditya Verma
Research Fellow
Alex Huang
Research Volunteer
Bradley Gundlach
Research Volunteer
Brooke Yasuda
Research Volunteer
Cherie (Yu-Chien) Chung
Research Fellow
Daniel Wanderer
Research Volunteer
Deniz Oncel
Research Volunteer
Erik Souverein
Research Volunteer
Grady Collier
Research Volunteer
Hyunduck Kwak
Research Fellow
Jihye Park
Research Volunteer
Louay Almidani
Research Volunteer
Mai Brakat Alhelaly
Research Fellow
Raiyna Rattu
Research Volunteer
Riad Sankari
Research Volunteer
Samir Fouissi
Research Volunteer
Xiaowei Zhang
Research Volunteer
Ye He
Research Volunteer
Giulia Corradetti
Doheny Scientist
Mehdi Emamverdi
Research Fellow
Ye He
Research Fellow
Ayesha Karamat
Research Fellow
Alireza Mahmoudi
Research Fellow
Muneeswar Gupta Nittala
Senior Research Associate
Louay Almidani
Research Volunteer
Federico Corvi
Research Fellow
Sohaib Fasih-Ahmad
Pre-doctoral Research Fellow
Abbas Habibi
Research Fellow
Maryam Ashraf Khorasani
Research Fellow
Sophiana Lindenberg
Research Grading Specialist
Alexander Kai Thomsen
Research Volunteer
Jasmin Tojjar
Research Fellow
Anna Urrea
Research Volunteer
Aditya Verma
Research Fellow
Yu Wakatsuki/ Sano
Research Fellow
Past Research Staff
Ibrahim Abboud
Research Volunteer
(2024)
Nizar Saleh Abdelfattah
Research Fellow
(2013-2018)
Handan Akil
Research Fellow
(2015-2017)
Mayss Al-Sheikh
Research Fellow
(2015-2016)
Yamini Attiku
Research Fellow
(2021-2022)
Adrian Au
Research Volunteer
(2017-2018)
Jiwon Baek
Research Fellow
(2023-2024)
Elmira Baghdasaryan
Research Fellow
(2015-2018)
Siva Balasubramanian
Research Fellow
(2015-2018)
Giovanni Bellisario
Research Volunteer
(2024)
Enrico Borrelli
Research Fellow
(2016-2017)
Giacomo Boscia
Research Fellow
(2024-2025)
Brennan Boyd
Research Volunteer
(2023)
Iksoo Byon
Research Fellow
(2018-2020)
Kenneth Chang
Research Volunteer
(2016)
Karntida Chanwimol
Research Fellow
(2017-2018)
Alex Chopra
Research Volunteer
(2022-2023)
Catherine Cleary
Research Fellow
(2010)
Andrew Clingerman
Research Volunteer
(2023)
Federico Corvi
Research Fellow
(2020-2024)
Gabriella Crovetto
Research Volunteer
(2022-2023)
Anna Dastiridou
Research Fellow
(2014-2015)
Jayson De La O
Research Volunteer
(2024)
Maria Fernanda Dominquez
Research Fellow
(2011-2012)
Adel Ebraheem
Research Fellow
(2016-2018)
Amr Elfert
Research Volunteer
(2024)
Mehdi Emamverdi
Research Fellow
(2022-2024)
Houri Esmaeilkhanian
Research Fellow
(2022-2023)
Wenying Fan
Research Fellow
(2016-2018)
Mengyuan Fang
Research Fellow
(2017-2019, 2023)
Alireza Farahani
Research Fellow
(2023)
Sohaib Fasih-Ahmad
Pre-doctoral Research Fellow
(2021-2024)
Durga Ganesh
Research Volunteer
(2021-2023)
Khalil Ghasemi Falavarjani
Research Fellow
(2015-2016)
Ramya Gnanaraj
Research Fellow
(2022-2023)
Frederic Gunnemann
Research Volunteer
(2020)
Abbas Habibi
Research Fellow
(2022-2024)
Amir Hariri
Research Fellow
(2011-2018)
Amanda Hertel
Research Volunteer
(2025)
Kazutaka Hirabayashi
Research Fellow
(2020-2022)
Takao Hirano
Research Fellow
(2017-2018)
Jody Hu
Research Volunteer
(2019-2020)
Ping Huang
Research Fellow
(2014-2017)
Jianyan Huang
Research Fellow
(2013-2017)
Xiwen Huang
Research Coordinator
(2016-2018)
Mingyi Huang
Research Volunteer
(2018-2019)
Victoria Hull
Research Volunteer
(2022-2023)
Soon Il Kwon
Research Fellow
(2016-2017)
Chaitra Jayadev
Research Fellow
(2015)
Yongsok Ji
Research Fellow
(2018-2020)
Shin Kadomoto
Research Fellow
(2021-2023)
Shayaan Kaleem
Research Volunteer
(2025)
Ayesha Karamat
Research Fellow
(2016-2025)
Maryam Ashraf Khorasani
Research Fellow
(2022-2024)
Laura Küehlewein
Research Fellow
(2013-2015)
Lisa Lampis
Research Volunteer
(2024)
Brian Lee
Research Volunteer
(2021-2022)
Minsung Lee
Research Volunteer
(2024-2025)
Jianqin Lei
Research Fellow
(2016-2017)
Ben Lin
Research Volunteer
(2018)
Sophiana Lindenberg
Research Grading Specialist
(2018-2024)
Henry Liu
Research Volunteer
(2022-2023)
Yan Luo
Research Fellow
(2013-2014)
Alireza Mahmoudi
Research Fellow
(2022-2024)
Navid Manafi
Research Fellow
(2021-2023)
Roxan Mansoori Dara
Research Volunteer
(2024)
Jyotsna Maram
Research Associate
(2016-2019)
Connie Martin Sears
Research Fellow
(2016-2017)
Kelly Miyasato
Research Coordinator
(2017)
Wang Mo
Research Fellow
(2017-2019)
Cristina Modak
Project Manager
(2013-2016)
Rasha nabil Kako
Research Volunteer
(2022)
Saumya Nagar
Research Volunteer
(2016-2017)
Onnisa Nanegrungsunk (Tien)
Research Fellow
(2021-2023)
Marco Nassisi
Research Fellow
(2017-2018)
Lorane Nava
Research Grading Specialist
(2016-2017)
Bryce Newman/Heitner
Research Volunteer
(2017)
Moritz Niemeyer
Research Fellow
(2013-2014)
Luisa Obregon
Research Fellow
(2012-2014)
Damla Oncel
Research Volunteer
(2023)
Deniz Oncel
Research Volunteer
(2021-2023)
Kang Yeun Pak
Research Fellow
(2024-2025)
Xiaojing (Claudia) Pan
Research Fellow
(2012-2013)
Max Pfau
Research Fellow
(2015)
Dana Platt
Research Volunteer
(2025)
Marko Popovic
Research Volunteer
(2024-2025)
Akanksha Prasad
Research Fellow
(2017-2018, 2021-2023)
Jinfeng Qu/Bari
Research Fellow
(2012-2013)
Nikitha Reddy
Research Volunteer
(2018-2019)
Bahar Rohani
Research Volunteer
(2020-2021)
Humberto Ruiz-Garcia
Research Fellow
(2010-2014)
Jaya Sadda
Research Volunteer
(2018-2019)
Min Sagong
Research Fellow
(2014-2015)
Yue Shi
Research Fellow
(2015-2018)
Seyedeh Simindokht Hosseini
Research Fellow
(2023)
Erin Sinai
Research Volunteer
(2023)
Mike Sinai
Research Volunteer
(2024-2025)
Gagan Singh
Research Volunteer
(2019-2021)
Sheena Song
Research Volunteer
(2017)
Manasa Srimanasa Vejalla
Research Volunteer
(2019-2021)
Sowmya Srinivas
Research Fellow
(2012-2021)
Kathryn Stucker
Research Volunteer
(2023)
Li Su
Research Fellow
(2019-2020)
William Sultan
Research Volunteer
(2019)
Tarin Tanji
Research Volunteer
(2019-2021)
Wongsiri Taweebanjongsin “B”
Research Fellow
(2019-2020)
Tudor Tepelus
Research Fellow
(2013-2018)
Alexander Kai Thomsen
Research Volunteer
(2023-2024)
Liran Tiosano
Research Fellow
(2019)
Jasmin Tojjar
Research Fellow
(2022-2024)
Nianting Tong
Research Fellow
(2019)
Tania Torbati
Research Volunteer
(2018-2022)
Edmund Tsui
Research Volunteer
(2020-2021)
Akihito Uji
Research Fellow
(2016-2017)
Anna Urrea
Research Volunteer
(2023-2024)
Chaiyaporn Vatanatham (Charles)
Research Volunteer
(2020-2023)
Aditya Verma
Research Fellow
(2018-2019)
Yu Wakatsuki/Sano
Research Fellow
(2022-2024)
Kang Wang
Research Fellow
(2015-2016)
Xin Yang
Research Fellow
(2017-2019)
Ahmed Roshdy Zeyada AlAgorie
Research Fellow
(2018-2019)
Zhouyuan Zhang
Research Fellow
(2010-2014)
Hongyang Zhang
Research Fellow
(2014-2015)
Nizar Saleh Abdelfattah
Research Fellow
(2013-2018)
Handan Akil
Research Fellow
(2015-2017)
Elmira Baghdasaryan
Research Fellow
(2015-2018)
Brennan Boyd
Research Volunteer
(2023)
Mayss Al-Sheikh
Research Fellow
(2015-2016)
Adrian Au
Volunteer Researcher
(2017-2018)
Siva Balasubramanian
Research Fellow
(2015-2018)
Iksoo Byon
Research Fellow
(2018-2020)
Yamini Attiku
Research Fellow
(2021-2022)
Jiwon Baek
Research Fellow
(2023-2024)
Enrico Borrelli
Research Fellow
(2016-2017)
Kenneth Chang
Visiting Researcher
(2016)
Karntida Chanwimol
Research Fellow
(2017-2018)
Andrew Clingerman
Research Volunteer
(2023)
Adel Ebraheem
Research Fellow
(2016-2018)
Mengyuan Fang
Research Fellow
(2017-2018; 2023)
Alex Chopra
Research Volunteer
(2022-2023)
Anna Dastiridou
Research Fellow
(2014-2015)
Houri Esmaeilkhanian
Research Fellow
(2022-2023)
Alireza Farahani
Research Fellow
(2023)
Catherine Cleary
Research Fellow
(2010)
Maria Fernanda Dominquez
Research Fellow
(2011-2012)
Wenying Fan
Research Fellow
(2016-2018)
Durga Ganesh
Research Volunteer
(2021-2023)
Khalil Ghasemi Falavarjani
Research Fellow
(2015-2016)
Amir Hariri
Research Fellow
(2011-2018)
Jody Hu
Research Volunteer
(2019-2020)
Ping Huang
Research Fellow
(2014-2017)
Ramya Gnanaraj
Research Fellow
(2022-2023)
Kazutaka Hirabayashi
Research Fellow
(2020-2022)
Jianyan Huang
Research Fellow
(2013-2017)
Xiwen Huang
Research Coordinator
(2016-2018)
Frederic Gunnemann
Research Volunteer
(2020)
Takao Hirano
Research Fellow
(2017-2018)
Mingyi Huang
Research Volunteer
(2018-2019)
Soon Il Kwon
Research Fellow
(2016-2017)
Chaitra Jayadev
Research Fellow
(2015)
Laura Küehlewein
Research Fellow
(2013-2015)
Ben Lin
Research Volunteer
(2018)
Navid Manafi
Research Fellow
(2021-2023)
Yongsok Ji
Research Fellow
(2018-2020)
Brian Lee
Research Volunteer
(2021-2022)
Henry Liu
Research Volunteer
(2022-2023)
Jyotsna Maram
Research Associate
(2016-2019)
Shin Kadomoto
Research Fellow
(2021-2023)
Jianqin Lei
Research Fellow
(2016-2017)
Yan Luo
Research Fellow
(2014)
Connie Martin Sears
Research Fellow
(2016-2017)
Kelly Miyasato
Research Coordinator
(2017)
Saumya Nagar
Research Volunteer
(2016-2017)
Lorane Nava
Research Grading Specialist
(2016-2017)
Luisa Obregon
Research Fellow
(2012-2014)
Wang Mo
Research Fellow
(2017-2019)
Onnisa Nanegrungsunk
Research Fellow
(2021-2023)
Bryce Newman/Heitner
Research Volunteer
(2017)
Deniz Oncel
Research Volunteer
(2021-2023)
Cristina Modak
Project Manager
(2013-2016)
Marco Nassisi
Research Fellow
(2017-2018)
Moritz Niemeyer
Research Fellow
(2013-2014)
Damla Oncel
Research Volunteer
(2023)
Xiaojing (Claudia) Pan
Research Fellow
(2012-2013)
Jinfeng Qu/Bari
Research Fellow
(2012-2013)
Humberto Ruiz-Garcia
Research Fellow
(2010-2014)
Yue Shi
Research Fellow
(2015-2018)
Max Pfau
Research Fellow
(2015)
Nikitha Reddy
Research Volunteer
(2018-2019)
Jaya Sadda
Research Volunteer
(N/A)
Seyedeh Simindokht Hosseini
Research Fellow
(2023)
Akanksha Prasad
Research Fellow
(2022-2023)
Bahar Rohani
Research Volunteer
(2020-2021)
Min Sagong
Research Fellow
(2014-2015)
Erin Sinai
Research Volunteer
(2023)
Gagan Singh
Research Volunteer
(2019-2021)
Sowmya Srinivas
Research Fellow
(2012-2021)
William Sultan
Research Volunteer
(2019)
Tudor Tepelus
Research Fellow
(2013-2018)
Sheena Song
Research Volunteer
(2017)
Kathryn Strucker
Research Volunteer
(2023)
Tarin Tanji
Research Volunteer
(2019-2021)
Liran Tiosano
Research Fellow
(2019)
Manasa Srimanasa Vejalla
Research Volunteer
(2019-2020, 2021)
Li Su
Research Fellow
(2019-2020)
Wongsiri Taweebanjongsin
Research Fellow
(2019-2020)
Niating Tong
Research Fellow
(2019)
Tania Torbati
Research Volunteer
(2018-2022)
Chaiyaporn (Charles) Vatanatham
Research Volunteer
(2020-2023)
Xin Yang
Research Fellow
(2017-2019)
Zhouyuan Zhang
Research Fellow
(2010-2014)
Edmund Tsui
Research Volunteer
(N/A)
Aditya Verma
Research fellow
(2018-2019)
Ahmed Roshdy Zeyada AlAgorie
Research Fellow
(2018-2019)
Akihito Uji
Research Fellow
(2016-2017)
Kang Wang
Research Fellow
(2015-2016)
Hongyang Zhang
Research Fellow
(2014-2015)