Julian received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2020, where his undergraduate research spanned radar signal processing, passive RF filter design, antenna optimization, and signal fusion techniques. He is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Ana Arias and Michael Lustig. Julian is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and an active member of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
Research
Julian’s research focuses on the development of novel hardware for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with an emphasis on flexible and wearable receiver coil arrays that expand the clinical and research utility of MRI. His work includes conformal receiver arrays that improve image quality through closer coupling to anatomy, and wearable head coil arrays that enable new applications such as in-scanner overnight sleep studies. A significant direction of his research is enabling multimodal neuroimaging through receiver arrays compatible with simultaneous TMS-fMRI and EEG-fMRI acquisition. Together, his work aims to lower the physical and technical barriers to high quality MRI in settings and populations underserved by conventional scanner hardware.