Dara has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. His background is in Finite Element Methods and Computational Fluid Mechanics. In the Bio-Optics lab, he has enhanced the numeric solution to light diffusion through turbid media. He has also developed a new algorithm that uses a convolution kernel instead of a lengthy for-loops in the Laser Speckle Contrast Image (LSCI) technique. The algorithm uses GPU instead of CPU for faster computation. Currently, Dara is working on Deep Learning Diffusion Models for image enhancement purposes.