Faculty

Greeshma Ananth Agasthya

Office: Boggs 3-71

Contact: First-NameATgatechDOTedu

Affiliations: 

1. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program, George W Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

2. Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences

3. Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University

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Bio: Greeshma is an Assistant Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Greeshma received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University in 2013 and 2011, respectively. Between 2013 and 2015, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Emory University's Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences. She received her B.E. in Medical Electronics from Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2005. Before joining GATech, Greeshma was a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Advanced Computing for Health Sciences Section. Her research focuses on developing advanced computational tools for personalized medical imaging, and radiation therapy protocols. She also develops computational frameworks to evaluate novel radiopharmaceutical therapies. 

Yang Chen (Ph.D student) 

Office: Boggs 3-37

Research Interests: AI for healthcare, Digital Twins 

Bio: Yang Chen is currently a Ph.D. student in the Nuclear & Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program at Georgia Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Greeshma Agasthya. He received his B.E. degree from the University of South China, Hunan, China, in 2021 and his M.S. degree from Duke University in 2023. His research interests include developing digital twins and AI tools in healthcare.

Connor Cole (Ph.D student)

Office: Boggs 3-37

Research Interests: Modeling and Simulation, Digital Twins

Bio: Connor Cole is currently a Ph.D. student in the Nuclear & Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program at Georgia Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Greeshma Agasthya. He received his B.E. degree in physics from Berry College, Rome, Georgia, in 2024. His research interests include using human model simulations (digital twins) to simulate radiological imaging techniques. Hobbies include fighting video games such as Street Fighter 6, as well as fighting game tournaments.

Anthony Lim (Ph.D student)

Office: Boggs 3-83

Research Interests: Targeted Radionuclide Therapy, Radiation Biology

Bio: Anthony Lim is currently a Ph.D. student in the Nuclear & Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program at Georgia Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Chris Wang and Prof. Greeshma Agasthya. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois,  in 2011, his M.B.A. in Data analytics from the University of Incarnate Words, San Antonio, Texas, in 2017, M.S. in Health Physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, in 2021, and M.S. in Medical Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, in 2023. His research interests include simulation design for targeted radionuclide therapy and its biological effectiveness prediction at the sub-cellular scale. Hobbies include: hiking, watching movies, and bowling.