Georgeta-Elisabeta Marai, PhD, is Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science in the UIC College of Engineering. She joined UIC in 2015. She has deep experience in successful interdisciplinary projects that blend computer science with biomedicine, science and engineering, and similar experience in project management and lab directing. Her research includes medical imaging and data visual analysis, and her research explores novel geometric representations, human-computer interaction techniques, visual analysis and medical analysis tools that are needed for the simulation and analysis of complex scientific phenomena, with particular emphasis on large-scale imaging and spatial 3D data. Her work has led to breakthroughs in theoretical research and citations in textbooks in computer science, and in interdisciplinary data-driven translational research which impacts the biomedical field, from oncology and orthopedics to epidemiology. She is the recipient of a prestigious U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award and she is the lead Principal Investigator of several R01 awards from the National Cancer Institute. She has successfully led development and deployment of open-source scientific software that has been adopted at more than 40 institutions.
