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Name Omer Burak Demirel
Label Ph.D.
Email obdemirel@gmail.com
Phone (612) 475-6188
Url https://obdemirel.github.io/
Summary MRI Clinical Scientist at Philips Healthcare supporting Mayo Clinic, with expertise in MRI reconstruction, deep learning, and translation of advanced imaging methods into clinical practice.

Work

  • 2024.11 - Present
    MRI Clinical Scientist
    Philips Healthcare
    Supporting clinical research and product development in cardiac and interventional MRI in collaboration with Mayo Clinic.
    • Develop advanced algorithms for MRI reconstruction and post-processing
    • Collaborate with Mayo Clinic and Philips R&D teams
    • Optimize MRI workflows and imaging sequences
    • Translate research algorithms into clinical deployment
  • 2023.08 - 2024.10
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
    Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    • Developed deep learning algorithms for accelerated cine and 3D LGE MRI
    • Deployed inline reconstruction methods in clinical workflows
  • 2017 - 2023
    Research Assistant
    University of Minnesota
    Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
    • Designed self-supervised deep learning methods for cardiac MRI and fMRI
    • Contributed to Human Connectome Project reconstruction pipelines

Education

  • 2017 - 2023

    Minneapolis, MN, USA

    PhD
    University of Minnesota
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • 2015 - 2017

    Ankara, Turkey

    MSc
    Bilkent University
    Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • 2010 - 2015

    Ankara, Turkey

    BSc
    Bilkent University
    Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Awards

  • 2026.02
    Gerald M. Pohost Award
    Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
    Awarded for most impactful paper: 'Late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance with generative artificial intelligence.'
  • 2026.03
    Best Poster Award
    IACSM Philips Conference
    For PRIME framework enabling deployment of custom MRI reconstruction algorithms on scanner.
  • 2020.2021
    American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship
    American Heart Association
    Top-ranked fellowship (0.12%) for work on high-resolution cardiac perfusion MRI.

Skills

Python
PyTorch
TensorFlow
pandas
MATLAB
Technical
MRI Reconstruction
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Quantitative Imaging
Image Enhancement

Languages

Turkish
Native speaker
English
Fluent