Sharmila Majumdar focuses on developing quantitative imaging and image processing techniques to study the morphology and function of the musculoskeletal system. In addition to extensive collaborations with Orthopedic Surgery, Medicine and Rheumatalogy at UCSF, she collaborates with UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Labs, as well as with industry. She is actively involved in graduate education in the Bioengineering Graduate Group (UCSF and UCB), and also serves as an undergraduate advisor to students in the undergraduate program in the Bioengineering Dept. at UC Berkeley.