Kedar Narayan

Kedar Narayan is a senior scientist and group leader at the Center for Molecular Microscopy (CMM) at Frederick National Laboratory and National Cancer Institute, USA. Kedar has a Ph.D. in immunology, with an emphasis on biophysics and imaging, and a background in chemistry, pathology and software engineering. His group has developed and applied FIB-SEM and other volume EM technologies to questions in cancer and cell biology. Specific areas of Kedar’s research focus are correlative imaging, deep learning/AI and volume EM tool development; his group recently released "empanada", a napari plugin for deep learning based segmentation of sub-cellular features like organelles from EM images. His community work includes co-organizing symposia on volume EM and “large data”, leadership on data working groups, and creating common data and metadata standards for the field. As a leading member of the volume EM community, Kedar is committed to the growth and democratization of the field.