Dr. Pourmorteza is a biomedical engineer working on model-based 3D image reconstruction for CT and cone-beam CT. He received his Ph.D. in BME at Hopkins under the supervision of Dr. Elliot McVeigh on the topic of cardiac CT. At the I-STAR Lab, he worked with Dr. Web Stayman on the development of new prior-image-based 3D image reconstruction algorithms.

Dr. Pourmorteza is now a scientist at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda MD.