Hi! My name is Mira M. Liu and I am a current Postdoctoral Fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Institute. My work focuses on clinical translation of MR physics with a focus on physiologic signal and diffusion MRI. I was awarded a NIH NCATS TL1 postdoctoral fellowship at Mount Sinai to support my research on spectral diffusion and quantitative multiparametric MRI in kidney transplants and kidney masses with Drs. Sara Lewis, Octavia Bane, and Bachir Taouli. For emphasis on clinical translation, I am focused on combined clinical-imaging modeling for improved sensitivity and prediction of kidney disease progression using quantitative MRI and machine learning.

I was previously a NSF GRFP fellow at the CAMPEP accredited PhD program in Medical Physics at the University of Chicago. My dissertation was on quantitative MR perfusion (DSC, IVIM, SPECT, microspheres) and its application in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of acute ischemic stroke and cerebrovascular disease with Drs. Timothy Carroll and Gregory Christoforidis.

I have also worked in muon tomography and observational cosmology, with an Honors Bachelors thesis in Physics for my work in Astrophysics on Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation and calibration of a novel compact Fourier transform spectrometer for the South Pole Telescope with Drs. Stephan Meyer and Ritoban Basu Thakur, and a minor in Philosophy. More information about my previous and current projects and publications are available on the sidebar or the links below!