David B. Keator, PhD

Dr. Keator has been an active researcher in the fields of neuroimaging and neuroinformatics applied to psychiatric and neurological disorders for over twenty years. Dr. Keator’s research has been focused in three principal domains: (1) The development of advanced machine learning models for problems in neuroimaging and medicine; (2) Developing biomedical informatics tools and techniques for the field of neuroimaging and applying them to problems in medicine. (3) Identifying brain-based biomarkers of dementia in Down’s Syndrome, traumatic brain injury (TBI), Schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease; In each of these domains Dr. Keator has made significant research contributions, many of which have gained international exposure. Since 2011, Dr. Keator has chaired and co-developed the Neuroimaging Data Model (NIDM) working group consisting of representatives form 12 institutions across Europe and the United States. Dr. Keator is an active member of the International NeuroInformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) Neuroimaging Task Force. Previously, Dr. Keator was the chair of the Neuroinformatics Working Group of the Function Biomedical Informatics Research Network (FBIRN; Steven Potkin PI) for approximately 10 years, managing technical staff from 10 sites, resulting in many high-impact publications and software. Dr. Keator is the informatics and data management and sharing director for the UCI Conte Center (Tallie Z. Baram PI), developing informatics tools to support translational research. Dr. Keator served on the Neuroimaging Technology Initiative’s data format working group responsible for the development of the NIfTI-1 standard. Over the past seventeen years Dr. Keator has been the technical and operations director of the UCI Neuroscience Imaging Center, responsible for PET and MRI research performed at the center, quality control, reconstruction, and statistical analysis.