Dr. Frank J. Brooks received his PhD in Physics from Washington University in Saint Louis (WU). His dissertation specialization is in biophysics, rate equations and statistical physics. He applied these skills to various problems in statistical image analysis, image acquisition, and radio-tracer kinetics at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) and again at the Department of Radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, also at WUSM. In 2017, he accepted a position at the WU Department of Biomedical Engineering where he began research at the intersection of machine learning and imaging science. In 2019, Dr. Brooks began a research professorship at the Grainger College of Engineering Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he remains an affiliate member of the Computational Imaging Science Laboratory. His current research interests are in the creation of stochastic object models and the evaluation of deep generative models, which includes the rigorous evaluation of the network-based image-to-image translation that enables label-free imaging. Dr. Brooks joined the Center for Label-free Imaging and Multi-scale Biophotonics (CLIMB) in May 2023. His main roles there are: 1) to develop a center-wide image-data-management policy, 2) oversee the day-to-day operations of the CLIMB computational and storage infrastructure, and 3) coordinate with CLIMB project leads to develop and implement state-of-art image analysis in support of a wide range of scientific problems related to label-free imaging.