Shan received his Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from the Institute of Intelligent Information Processing, Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2007. His research interests include biomedical image analysis, computer vision, sparse representations, and statistical analysis of natural images.

Paul obtained a BSc. in Mathematics at the UV in Mexico in 2008. He joined the Computational Biomedicine Lab in the fall of 2008 as an intern and he became a Ph.D. Student at the University of Houston in the fall of 2009. His research interests include probability, biomedical image analysis, and segmentation. He is currently working on the ORION project which focuses on 3D morphological reconstruction of dendrites.