Andy Thai, Ph.D.

Computer Science Ph.D. • Computer Graphics & Biomedical Image Processing • Donald Bren School of ICS, UC Irvine

I am an academic researcher studying techniques in geometric processing, computer vision, and deformable image registration for biomedical and neuroscience applications. I work with Prof. Gopi Meenakshisundaram and collaborators in the Xu Lab for synchronization, registration, and visualization of multimodal mouse brain models.

Image Registration Medical/Neural Imaging Optimization Image Processing Geometric Processing Visualization Animation

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News

[Sep 2025] My dissertation, Geometric and Numerical Algorithms for Biomedical and Neural Visual Data Processing, has been made available at ProQuest.
[Aug 2025] Completed Ph.D. defense at UC Irvine.
[May 2025] Our paper on brain endothelial cell targeting has been published at Neuron.
[Jan 2025] Our RegBoost paper has been published to NeuroImage.

Publications

Specific targeting of brain endothelial cells using enhancer AAV vectors — Neuron, 2025.

E. Velazquez-Rivera, O. Dey, N. S. Kim, W. Cao, Q. Ye, P. Gao, Andy Thai, J. K. Nguyen, H. Zhang, J. T. Ting, M. Gopi, B. Ren, T. C. Holmes, X. Xu · DOI
RegBoost: Enhancing mouse brain image registration using geometric priors and Laplacian interpolation — NeuroImage, 2025.

A. N. Chilaparasetti, Andy Thai, P. Gao, X. Xu, M. Gopi · DOI
Brain image data processing using collaborative data workflows on Texera — Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2024.

Y. Ding, Y. Huang, P. Gao, Andy Thai, A. Chilaparasetti, M. Gopi, X. Xu, C. Li · DOI
Automatic segmentation and implicit surface representation of dynamic cardiac data — The Visual Computer, 2024.

Andy Thai, I. Gradus-Pizlo, Z. Pizlo, H. Sahin, M. Gopi · DOI

Teaching

ICS 6N: Linear Algebra — TA/Reader/Instructor Support, multiple terms 2019-2024

UC Irvine · Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall terms across 2019-2024

ICS 32 / 32A / 33 / 45C — Teaching Assistant/Reader, 2018-2021

UC Irvine · Programming with Software Libraries, Intermediate Programming, C++ as a Second Language

COGS 189: Brain-Computing Interfaces — Instructional Assistant, 2018

UC San Diego

Talks

Automatic segmentation and implicit surface representation of dynamic cardiac data — CGI 2024, Geneva, Switzerland. (From journal work above.)
RUBI-PAL Robotics — Contextual Robotics Institute Forum (2017-2018), UCSD.

Service

Session Chair — CGI 2024.
Invited Panelist — UCSD ACSP Post-Grad Panel (2021-2024), Cal-Bridge Students Panel (2022), CSP Alumni Q&A (2021).
Leadership Coach — DECADE PLUS, UCI (2019-2021).
Various leadership & outreach roles — UCSD Chancellor's Scholars Program and Alliance (2014-2018).

Contact

Links

Email: [enable email]
Site: ics.uci.edu/~athai5
Links: Google Scholar · ORCID · GitHub · LinkedIn

Office

By appointment.
Falling Leaves or DBH 4231.