Professor

Department: Biological Sciences

Dr. Khan directs the UTEP Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, where he and his students are focused on mapping brain circuits that control hunger, craving and nutrient sensing. As a neuroscientist whose research interests straddle the domains of neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, cartography, computer science, and behavior, he collaborates widely with domain experts across all these disciplines. As an affiliated faculty member of the AAII, he is interested in the use of computer vision to help guide his team in mapping brain circuits, and the promise of spatial AI to streamline their investigation. His work involves the careful annotation and standardization of these circuits to open-access brain atlases to help researchers target these circuits to develop better therapies for neurological illness and disease. More fundamentally, work from his team could help us better understand how the brain is organized into functional systems. He envisions AI to aid in not only the spatial mapping of the brain, but also in hypothesis generation, experimental design, and data integration for experiments involving brain circuits, as well as a resource for trainees as they develop their research projects.

Other Affiliations: Principal Investigator, UTEP Systems Neuroscience Laboratory

Keywords of Expertise: Neuroscience, Brain Mapping, Digital Brain Atlas, Neural Circuits, Neuroanatomy.