Speakers/Trainers (Tentative)

Prof. Sujatha N.

Professor 

Department of Applied Mechanics & Biomedical Engineering

IIT Madras

Research Interest: Applications of optical spectroscopic techniques for in-vivo detection of tissue anatomy and physiology, Non destructive imaging of tissue using laser speckle techniques, Bio-optical signal / image processing

Prof. Hardik J. Pandya

Associate Professor,

Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Research Interest: His current research focuses on minimally invasive and non-invasive technologies with an emphasis on but not limited to cancer diagnosis (brain, breast, head and neck), e-nose (diabetes, breast cancer screening), Neuroprotective Therapies for Acute Stroke and Epilepsy.

Prof. Hari M. Varma

Associate Professor, 

Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Research Interest: Developing novel optical tools for medical imaging applications, Laser speckle contrast imaging and diffuse correlation spectroscopy/tomography for blood flow measurements, Inverse problems in medical imaging:  Theoretical and computational aspects of diffuse optical tomography.

Dr. Uttam M. Pal 

Assistant Professor 

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, 

IIITDM Kancheepuram - Chennai

Research Interest: UV-Vis-NIR Spectroscopy, Diffuse Optical Imaging, Cervical and Oral cancer diagnosis 

Dr. Gowri A. 

Assistant Professor 

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, 

IIITDM Kancheepuram - Chennai

Research Interest: Optical Chemosensors and Biosensors, Bioinstrumentation for clinical diagnosis 

Dr. Srijith K. 

Assistant Professor 

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, 

IIITDM Kancheepuram – Chennai

Research interest: Optical fiber sensors, Fiber Bragg Grating, Distributed fiber optic sensors, surface plasmon resonance based optical sensors 

Dr. Monisha M.

Assistant Professor 

SIDI-School of Interdisciplinary Design and Innovation

IIITDM Kancheepuram

Research Interest: Development of biochemical assays for cancer diagnosis, Drug desining - screening and characterization of novel inhibitor molecules.

Prof. Naveen Kumar

Professor,

Department of Sciences and Humanities, 

IIITDM Kancheepuram Chennai

Research Interest: Optical fiber sensors, frequency combs, Ultrafast optics.

Dr. Sebastian Raja 

Applications Manager, 

DSS Imagetech India

Research Interest: Phase contrast microscopy, polarization-based microscopy, nanoscopy, fluorescence microscopy, Inverted microscopy

Prof. Tapas Sil

Associate Professor,

Department of Sciences and Humanities, 

IIITDM Kancheepuram Chennai

Research Interest: Giant resonances of nuclei, relativistic  mean field theory in nuclear structure, properties of hot nuclei dynamics or anharmonic oscillators

Dr. Vivek Kumar

Assistant Professor

Department of Sciences and Humanities (Physics), IIITDM Kancheepuram - Chennai

Research Interest: Raman, photoluminescence spectroscopy, and SERS, Nanostructured materials for energy conversion and storage: Supercapacitors, Multifunctional devices.

Mr. Jayakumar Sambasivan 

Director, 

COMTEK Scientific Instruments

Research Interest: UV-Vis Spectroscopy, Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, biomedical insrumentation. 

Prof. Priyanka Kokil

Associate Professor, 

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, 

IIITDM Kancheepuram – Chennai

Research Interest: Biomedical Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, System theory, and Nonlinear systems

Dr. Rohini P.

Assistant Professor 

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, 

IIITDM Kancheepuram – Chennai

Research Interest: Signal Processing, Image Processing, Medical Image Analysis, Early diagnosis, Non-invasive disease prognosis

Dr. Ashwin Lal 

CEO & Founder 

Shilps Sciences

Research Interest: AFM Microscopy, Tomography, Full-field optical coherence tomography (FF-OCT)

Dr. Arpitha Anantharaju

Associate Professor 

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

JIPMER Puducherry

Research Interest: Qualitative aspects of management of oncological patients, cytoreductive surgeries, preventive and palliative care.

Dr. Jayachandra Bingi 

Assistant Professor

School of Interdisciplinary Design and Innovation, IIITDM Kancheepuram

Research Interest: Photonics for Defence and medical applications (Photonic devices and sensors), Bio-inspired research and development, TRIZ analysis for innovative solutions