




Education and Training
Assistant Professor, 2015 - 2017, Computational Imaging and VisAnalysis Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2012 - 2015, Computational Imaging and VisAnalysis Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Mentors: Prof. Kannappan Palaniappan (Professor, UMC), Prof. Guna Seetharaman (Chief Scientist for Computational Science, US Naval Research Laboratory - NRL)
Post-Doctoral Fellowships, 2009 - 2011, CMUC, Departamento de Matematica, Universidade de Coimbra (UC), Coimbra, Portugal
Under CMUC/FCT fellowship (2010 - 2011) & UTAustin|Portgual sponsored project fellowship
Mentors: Prof. Isabel M. Figueiredo, (2009 - 2010), Prof. Jose Miguel Urbano (CMUC Analysis Group - 2011)
Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2004 - 2009, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT M), Chennai, India - Thesis submitted November 2009, Defended March 2010
Thesis Adviser: Prof. Arindama Singh
Thesis title: Regularization and Partial Differential Equations Based Image Restoration. (Abstract)
M.Sc. in Mathematics, 2002 - 2004, Indian Institute of Technolgy Madras (IIT M), Chennai, India
MSc term project: Semi-Positone Problem and Diffusive Logistic Equation with Constant Yield Harvesting. April 2004 (Adviser: Prof. V. Vetrivel)
Research Interests
Analysis & Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
Variational, Regularization, and PDE based Methods for Imaging and Vision Sciences
Mathematical Image Analysis
Computer Vision
Optimization, Statistical Methods for Image Processing
Bioinformatics
Brief Bio
Surya Prasath, PhD, is a mathematician with expertise in the application areas of image processing, computer vision and machine learning. He received his PhD in mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India in 2009. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal, for two years from 2010 to 2011. From 2012 to 2015 he was with the Computational Imaging and VisAnalysis (CIVA) Lab at the University of Missouri, USA as a postdoctoral fellow, and from 2016 to 2017 as an assistant research professor. He is currently an assistant professor in the Division of Biomedical Informatics at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and at the Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Cincinnati from 2018. He had summer fellowships/visits at Kitware Inc. NY, USA, The Fields Institute, Canada, and IPAM, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. His main research interests include nonlinear PDEs, regularization methods, inverse and ill-posed problems, variational, PDE based image processing, and computer vision with applications in remote sensing, biomedical imaging domains. His current research focuses are in data science, and bioimage informatics with machine learning techniques.
Awards/Misc
Best Paper Award Finalist the 38th Annual International Conference EMBS, Orlando, FL, USA, 2016.
Best Paper Award at the Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks, and Texts (AIST) 2014.
Security Awareness Training, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA 2014.
Civility, You, and Mizzou, Certificate No. 1107, Online Learning Module, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA 2014.
Third place (out of 150) in the Certificate examination at the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS), 2011.
US Nair Young Statistician Award 2008 by Indian Society for Probability and Statistics.
Best Paper Award at the Sixth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing 2008.
Best Paper Award at the International Conference On New Trends in Statistics and Optimization 2008.
Selected as one of the best participant & Awarded Rs. 1000/- Cash Prize + 3 books at the Annual Foundational School–I (AFS-I), December 2005.
Joint CSIR-UGC Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) (Mathematics) & Lectureship Award 2005.
Joint CSIR/UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship award, 2004.
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2004 Mathematics: Percentile score 88.50 All India Rank 171.


(Selected as one of the best participant)





(Paper: Controlled inverse diffusion models for image restoration and enhancement. Available online at: IEEE Computer Society)

(Paper: Robust M-estimators in early computer vision problems.)

(Talk: Regularization and PDE based schemes for early computer vision problems)

(Paper: The role of edge indicator function in Perona-Malik diffusion equations.)

(Paper: Edge detectors based anisotropic diffusion for enhancement of digital images. Available online at: IEEE Computer Society)

(Paper: Nonlinear partial differential equations in computer vision.)

(Paper: Ringing artifact reduction in blind image deblurring and denoising problems by regularization methods. Available online at: IEEE Computer Society)

(Paper: Color image segmentation based on vectorial multiscale diffusion with inter-scale linking. Available online at: Springer-LNCS 5909/2009)

(Talk: Variational segmentation schemes for mucosa detection in wireless capsule endoscopic images and videos)

(Talk: Wireless endoscopic imaging)

(Paper: Colonic mucosa detection in wireless capsule endoscopic images and videos)

(Paper: Weighted Laplacian differences based multispectral anisotropic diffusion)

(Talk: Efficient numerical techniques for adaptive total variation regularization in image processing)

(Talk: On gradient domain regularization for image processing problems)

(Paper: Mucosal region detection and 3D reconstruction in wireless capsule endoscopy videos using active contours. Available online at: IEEE Xplore)

(Paper: Multichannel texture image segmentation using weighted feature fitting based variational active contours. Available online at: ACM Digital Library)

(Talk: On generalized Perona--Malik diffusion equations in image processing)

(Talk: Adaptive total variation regularization in image processing)

(Talk: Global dissipative solutions for generalized forward-backward diffusion equations)
Slides available at figshare.com

(Talk: Geometric separation using Shearlets: application to road line extraction)

(Talk: Multiresolution regularization methods for image deblurring)

(Talk: On Moore - Penrose inverse based image restoration)

(Talk: Variable exponent function spaces and p(x)-Laplacian driven nonlinear diffusion)

(Talk: Global dissipative solutions for generalized forward-backward diffusion equations)

(Talk: The influence of PDE based image processing in analysis: Modern developments)

(Papers: Large-scale bundle adjustment for wide-area motion imagery (WAMI), Feature fusion for texture object segmentation in videos)

(Talk: Dissipative solutions for generalized forward-backward diffusion equations)
Other Presentations/Posters/Articles:
Professional service:
Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews (MR) of AMS MathSciNet. Occasionally review papers for Journals & Conferences: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), International Journal of Remote Sensing (IJRS), Remote Sensing Letters (RSL), Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), Computers & Electrical Engineering, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (SWEVO), Optical Engineering (OE), Optics Letters(OL), Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI), Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Image Science & Vision (JOSA A), Machine Vision and Applications, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology,...
My peer reviewer profile Publons: https://publons.com/a/337930/
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"If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of Giants" - Isaac Newton
On the shoulders of the masters:
I have been lucky to learn from the masters. I had great teachers at IITM, starting with my PhD adviser/mentor Prof. Arindama Singh, I learned analysis under the tutelage of Prof. S. H. Kulkarni, Prof. M. T. Nair, and Prof. P. V. Subrahmanyam. In IITM we also had a weekly seminar series which I attended fervently. Here is a list of other Professors (from other institutes in India) who's lectures I have attended in the past few years.