Phil Vargas

Graduate Student

Entered program: 2007

Hometown:

Email: vargasp[at]uchicago.edu

Advisor: Patrick LaRiviere, Ph.D.

I earned a B.S. in Applied Physics from Purdue University West
Lafayette. Afterward I taught at IVY Tech State College in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and at Purdue University North Central in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics. I then came to University of Chicago where I worked as research technologist and then joined the graduate program in Medical Physics. I'm currently working for Patrick La Riviere on reducing noise
levels in low dose computed tomography(CT) and reconstruction models for x-ray fluorescent computed tomography(XFCT). I most interested in problems in medical physics where computational cost becomes is a limiting factor.