Arathi Ashok is a Research Assistant in the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa, where she develops software and imaging-analysis tools for neurovascular research. She earned a Master of Computer Science degree from the University of Iowa and has experience in software engineering, data engineering, and machine learning. Her work focuses on developing automated pipelines for medical image processing and radiomic analysis to study plaque characteristics, intracranial atherosclerosis, aneurysms, and MRI-based biomarkers, with the goal of translating computational advances into clinically meaningful insights.