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Engineering Medicine Computer Science Health Science Biomedical Engineering Dermatology Electrical Engineering Pediatrics Medical Imaging Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Signal Processing Image Processing Optical Engineering Cancer Research Neuroscience

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5.04/23/2026

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Kamran Avanaki is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Dermatology in the Richard and Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago, holding adjunct appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pediatrics, and Neurosurgery, and serving as a member of the University of Illinois Cancer Center. He directs the Optical & Photoacoustic Imaging Research and Analysis (OPIRA) laboratory, which designs and translates advanced imaging technologies such as photoacoustic computed tomography, photoacoustic microscopy, thermoacoustic imaging, ultrasound, optical coherence tomography, and microwave imaging for applications in neonatal brain imaging, skin conditions including melanoma and hidradenitis suppurativa, brain tumors, and cancer detection. His research integrates multidisciplinary expertise in electrical engineering, optics, advanced data processing, machine learning, deep learning, transfer learning, Vision Transformers, and agentic AI systems for biomedical signal and image enhancement, classification, and segmentation.