Biography:

Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in physics from Sri Sathya Sai University, Prasanthi Nilayam, India in 1999 and 2001 respectively. He also obtained a M.Sc. degree in engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 2004. He received a Ph.D., working as a U.S. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Predoctoral Fellow, in biomedical computation from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA in 2007. He worked as a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, USA from 2007-2008. Currently he is working as an assistant professor in Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He is a recipient of the Apple Laureate award in the year 2009. He also received Department of Atomic Energy young scientist research award in 2010 and coauthor of the work chosen for ISMRM Merit Award (Summa Cum Laude) in 2012. He serves as an associate editor for Medical Physics, which is an official scientific journal of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). His research interests include Computational methods in medical imaging, medical image processing (reconstruction/analysis), physiological signal processing, and diffuse optical tomography.

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