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.
