Curriculum Vitae

Education: 

2001 - 2006      Doctorate in Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Mechanical Engineering
                       University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY)

1994-1998        Bachelors of Engineering (B.E.) in Mechanical Engineering 
                       Gold medalist (i.e., Ranked No. 1 among all students)
                       Bharathidasan University, Trichy, India

Work Experience:

Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI), University of Minnesota at Minneapolis

Manager Scientific Development and Visualization Laboratory (SDVL) and Image Processing Consultant, October 2006 – present 

  • Manager SDVL: Short and long term planning for the SDVL. Also provided software recommendations, installation and evaluation
  • Software purchase: Worked on purchase and renewal of more than 300 software’s for MSI
  • Vendor relations: Worked with vendors to resolve software bugs. Worked with vendors to arrange symposium, tutorials etc for the benefit of users
  • Purchase of core systems: Involved in the process of making decisions for purchasing core resources.
  • GPGPU computing: Member of the GPGPU computing group
  • User support: Providing technical user support for code development, debugging and tuning for medical and biological image processing and visualization using programming languages, software packages etc
  • Tutorials: Designed, prepared and presented tutorials and hands-on workshops on various topics like biological, medical and general image processing.
  • Grants: Working with industry and faculties on various grants

Toshiba Stroke Research Center (TSRC), University at Buffalo, SUNY

Research Assistant, February 2002 – October 2006 

  • Image processing: Pre-processing projection images, to remove reconstruction artifacts
  • Region of Interest (ROI) cone beam CT: Reconstructing x-ray projection images acquired with an ROI filter in the beam reduces dose to the patient, while producing reconstruction comparable to full field of view (FOV). Combining full FOV projection images acquired at low dose along with truncated projection acquired at higher dose and higher resolution, produces a good quality reconstruction
  • Optimization in biplane imaging: Determining the relative geometry between two DSA images of blood vessels by optimizing an objective function that maximizes the formation of the 3D vessel
  • Sinogram completion: Reducing truncation artifact in CT reconstruction by determining objects lying outside the FOV using apriori knowledge that every feature in the sinogram traces a sine curve
  • Segmentation and visualization: Segmenting and visualizing 3D CT data sets


Office of Radiation Safety, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY

Assistant Radiation Safety Officer, June 2003 – October 2006

  • Quality assurance on x-ray and nuclear equipments, responsible for radiation safety badge inventory
  • Hands on experience in testing and dose measurement on CT machine

Engineering Research and Development Center, Caterpillar India Pvt Ltd, India

Design Engineer, August 1998 – July 2001
  • Designed hydraulic, pneumatic and brake cooling system for a dumper and dozer
  • Coordinated electrical commodity team, a team formed to improve the quality and reliability of all electrical components

Skill set:

Image Processing: Segmentation, Classification, Features extraction, Edges detection, Medical Imaging, Morphological Operations, Perceptual grouping

Web programming: Program dynamic websites using Python, Django, MySQL, CSS and Javascript.  


Computer skills:

Language                  : C, C++, Python, django, SQL, MATLAB, Shell Scripting, MPI, OpenMP, OpenGL, Visualization Toolkit (VTK), Insight Toolkit (ITK), ImageMagick, CUDA

Software Packages : Pro-Engineer, Solid Works, Mimics, Huygens, Avizo, Amira, Tecplot, Imaris, MevisLab

Operating System    :  Windows, Linux / UNIX variants, Mac OS


Scholarships:

2002-2006   Research Assistant, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Professional activities:
  1.  Peer reviewer for the Journal of Medical Physics
  2.  Chaired two sessions at the WORLDCOMP 2011 in the track, “The International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition”
  3. Project Judge at the Minnesota Academy of Science Fair (March 19th, 2012)

Undergraduate Awards:
  • Awarded gold medal for 1st rank in under-graduation
  • Awarded “The Best Outgoing Student of the Mechanical Engineering Department (1998)”, by the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department