About
The community behind
medical imaging AI
Project MONAI brings together researchers, clinicians, and industry engineers to advance medical-imaging AI. Started by NVIDIA and King's College London, it has grown into a community of 30+ institutions developing and sharing best practices, tools, and frameworks across academia and enterprise.
Our mission is wider adoption of AI in healthcare imaging through validated, open tools. Building on the foundations of NVIDIA Clara Train, NiftyNet, DLTK, and DeepNeuro, MONAI Core is now the community's flagship framework, and every contribution is reviewed and merged in the open.
Leadership
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board sets MONAI's strategic direction. Its members, leaders from academia, healthcare, and industry, provide oversight across technical development, clinical validation, education, and community engagement, and keep the project aligned with what researchers and clinicians actually need.
Our Working Groups are driven at the Advisory Board level: each working-group lead sits on the board. These teams focus on core development, deployment, education, benchmarking, federated learning, AI-human interaction, outreach, and clinical applications such as ophthalmology and ultrasound.
Advisory Board Members
Aaron Lee
Ophthalmology Working Group Chair
Annika Reinke
Benchmark Working Group Chair
Ben Murray
Thought Leader
Bruce Hashemian
AI-Human Interaction Chair & Thought Leader
Carole Sudre
Benchmark Working Group Chair
David Bericat
Deploy Working Group Chair
Eric Kerfoot
Core Developers & Education Chair
Haris Shuaib
Deploy Working Group Chair
Holger Roth
Federated Learning Chair
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer
Ophthalmology Working Group Chair
Jorge Cardoso
Arbitration Board Chair & Thought Leader
Justin Kirby
Thought Leader
Lena Maier-Hein
Thought Leader
Mahdi Azizian
Arbitration Board Chair & Thought Leader
Marc Modat
Education Working Group Chair
Michael Baumgartner
Thought Leader
Michael Zephyr
Outreach Working Group Chair
Nic Ma
Core Developers Chair
Prerna Dogra
Thought Leader
Ralf Floca
AI-Human Interaction Chair & Arbitration Board
Saad Nadeem
AI-Human Interaction Chair
Sai Praneeth Karimireddy
Federated Learning Chair
Sebastien Ourselin
Thought Leader
Barbaros Selnur Erdal
Deploy Working Group Chair
Stephen Aylward
Chair of the Advisory Board
Yun Liu
Core Developers Chair
Founders
Emeritus Founding Members
MONAI exists because these founding members shaped its earliest direction. We recognize their lasting contributions to the project and to the field.
Daniel Rubin
Founding Member
Keyvan Farahani
Founding Member
Klaus Maier-Hein
Founding Member
Nassir Navab
Founding Member
Nasir Rajpoot
Founding Member
S. Kevin Zhou
Founding Member
Andy Feng
Founding Member
Wenqi Li
Founding Member
Get Involved
Help shape what MONAI becomes next
MONAI is built in the open: code, governance, and roadmap. Join a working group, contribute a pull request, or bring a clinical use case to the community.