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Quantifying alopecia for clinical use — Quantifying alopecia for clinical use
Quantifying and tracking alopecia areata in real time is an ongoing challenge for clinicians and investigators. Our goal is to build a quantitative system that is reproducible, standardized, and simple to use.

3D head reconstruction for mapping dermatological conditions in mixed reality — 3D head reconstruction for mapping dermatological conditions in mixed reality
A new 3D morphable model fitting approach to enable mapping of clinical information on the 3D head of each person starting only from a hand-held camera or smartphone video.

Encoding clinicians decision process in grading acne — Encoding clinicians decision process in grading acne
A new acne global grading system that can be used for clinical and research use, linking acne’s visual features to a severity that reflects primary lesions as well as overall acne activity, and in particular scarring.

Head geometry analysis for image capture — Head geometry analysis for image capture
Head geometry analysis for adapting image capture guidelines used in the Severity of Alopecia Tool for the pediatric population.

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Elena Bernardis, PhD

Principal Investigator

Research Assistant Professor, Dermatology

Affiliated Faculty, GRASP Lab

Dr. Bernardis obtained her PhD from the Computer and Information Science Department at Penn and also holds a M.E. in Computer and Information Science and an M.A. in Mathematics. Before joining the Penn Dermatology faculty she was a Research Associate at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Email: elena.bernardis@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Tejas Mane

Research Staff

Tejas Mane finished his Master’s in Scientific Computing at Penn in 2020. He previously worked as a Junior Research Fellow at IIT Gandhinagar and graduated from BITS Pilani with an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Email: tmane@seas.upenn.edu

Cameron Gudobba

Graduate Research Assistant

Cameron is a second-year medical student with an interest in dermatology who is currently studying at the Perelman School of Medicine. He spent four years at the University of Chicago working towards his bachelor’s degree before graduating in 2020. His previous research projects have ranged from insect genetics to psychopharmacology before focusing on clinical dermatological imaging and alopecias here in the CoDe lab.

Email: cameron.gudobba@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Natalia Rodriguez

Graduate Research Assistant

Natalia is a third year medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine interested in pursuing a career in dermatology, specifically skin of color. She received her undergraduate degree in neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania.

Email: Natalia.Rodriguez@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Navish Yarna

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Navish Yarna is a Senior at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Biology. His research interests include Cell Biology, Computational Dermatology, and Translational Research. Navish aspires to pursue a career in medicine in the future. Contact: nyarna@sas.upenn.edu

Email: nyarna@sas.upenn.edu

Aylar Bayramova

Research Assistant

Aylar Bayramova has a B.S. in Biology with a Biomedical concentration from Arcadia University, where she also worked as a student researcher studying phylogeny of brown algae using molecular barcoding.

Email: aylar.bayramova@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Shant Tamazian, MD

Research Assistant

Shant Tanazian received his MD at Penn in 2021 and is now an intern at Massachusetts General Hospital. Before medical school, he studied Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University at Buffalo and he spent a year in Armenia volunteering as a medical clown in a children’s hospital and as an English teacher at the American University of Armenia and American Corner through the US Embassy.

Email: Shant.Tamazian@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Shahla Mukhtar

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Shahla is a second year undergraduate student at Haverford College with a prospective Chemistry major. She is interested in pursuing a career in dermatology. Her past research experiences involve biochemistry and computational chemistry work.