--- title: "MONAI - About Us" description: "Project MONAI was started by NVIDIA and King's College London to build an inclusive community of AI researchers developing and exchanging best practices for AI in healthcare imaging." canonical: https://project-monai.github.io/about.html audience: [engineer] last_updated: 2026-06-11 source: about.html --- 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](working-groups.html) 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](/assets/img/people/lee-aaron.png) #### Aaron Lee Ophthalmology Working Group Chair ![Annika Reinke](/assets/img/people/annika-reinke.jpg) #### Annika Reinke Benchmark Working Group Chair ![Ben Murray](/assets/img/people/ben-murray.png) #### Ben Murray Thought Leader ![Bruce Hashemian](/assets/img/people/bruce-hashemian.jpeg) #### Bruce Hashemian AI-Human Interaction Chair & Thought Leader ![Carole Sudre](/assets/img/people/carole-sudre.jpg) #### Carole Sudre Benchmark Working Group Chair ![David Bericat](/assets/img/people/david-bericat.jpg) #### David Bericat Deploy Working Group Chair ![Eric Kerfoot](/assets/img/people/eric-kerfoot.png) #### Eric Kerfoot Core Developers & Education Chair ![Haris Shuaib](/assets/img/people/haris-shuaib.jpg) #### Haris Shuaib Deploy Working Group Chair ![Holger Roth](/assets/img/people/holger-roth.jpg) #### Holger Roth Federated Learning Chair ![Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer](/assets/img/people/jayashree-kalpathy-cramer.jpg) #### Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer Ophthalmology Working Group Chair ![Jorge Cardoso](/assets/img/people/jorge-cardoso.jpg) #### Jorge Cardoso Arbitration Board Chair & Thought Leader ![Justin Kirby](/assets/img/people/justin-kirby.png) #### Justin Kirby Thought Leader ![Lena Maier-Hein](/assets/img/people/lena-maier-hein.jpg) #### Lena Maier-Hein Thought Leader ![Mahdi Azizian](/assets/img/people/mahdi-azizian.jpg) #### Mahdi Azizian Arbitration Board Chair & Thought Leader ![Marc Modat](/assets/img/people/marc-modat.jpg) #### Marc Modat Education Working Group Chair ![Michael Baumgartner](/assets/img/people/michael-baumgartner.jpg) #### Michael Baumgartner Thought Leader ![Michael Zephyr](/assets/img/people/michael-zephyr.jpg) #### Michael Zephyr Outreach Working Group Chair ![Nic Ma](/assets/img/people/nic-ma.jpg) #### Nic Ma Core Developers Chair ![Prerna Dogra](/assets/img/people/prerna-dogra.png) #### Prerna Dogra Thought Leader ![Ralf Floca](/assets/img/people/ralf-floca.png) #### Ralf Floca AI-Human Interaction Chair & Arbitration Board ![Saad Nadeem](/assets/img/people/saad-nadeem.png) #### Saad Nadeem AI-Human Interaction Chair ![Sai Praneeth Karimireddy](/assets/img/people/sai-praneeth-karimireddy.jpg) #### Sai Praneeth Karimireddy Federated Learning Chair ![Sebastien Ourselin](/assets/img/people/sebastien-ourselin.png) #### Sebastien Ourselin Thought Leader ![Barbaros Selnur Erdal](/assets/img/people/barbaros-selnur-erdal.jpg) #### Barbaros Selnur Erdal Deploy Working Group Chair ![Stephen Aylward](/assets/img/people/stephen-aylward.png) #### Stephen Aylward Chair of the Advisory Board ![Yun Liu](/assets/img/people/yun-liu.jpeg) #### 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](/assets/img/people/daniel-rubin.png) #### Daniel Rubin Founding Member ![Keyvan Farahani](/assets/img/people/keyvan-farahani.jpg) #### Keyvan Farahani Founding Member ![Klaus Maier-Hein](/assets/img/people/klaus-maier-hein.jpg) #### Klaus Maier-Hein Founding Member ![Nassir Navab](/assets/img/people/nassir-navab.png) #### Nassir Navab Founding Member ![Nasir Rajpoot](/assets/img/people/nasir-rajpoot.png) #### Nasir Rajpoot Founding Member ![S. Kevin Zhou](/assets/img/people/kevin-zhou.png) #### S. Kevin Zhou Founding Member ![Andy Feng](/assets/img/people/andy-feng.jpeg) #### Andy Feng Founding Member ![Wenqi Li](/assets/img/people/wenqi-li.jpg) #### 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. [Join the Community](https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) [Explore Working Groups](working-groups.html)