Phaneendra
Yalavarthy received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics
from Sri Sathya
Sai University,
Puttaparthy, India, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He
also obtained an 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 Pre-doctoral
Fellow, in Biomedical Computation from Thayer
School of Engineering, 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
between 2007-2008. He leads TANUH: The AI-Centre of
Excellence in Healthcare funded by Ministry of
Education at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
He is a Professor in the Department of Computational
and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore. He served as the chair of the department
for the period 2016-2018 as well as the Institute
Coordinator of the Prime
Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) scheme
scheme for the period 2018-2020. He was the Chair of
the Office of
International Relations (OIR)
for the period 2018-2021 and the Chair of the Office of
Development and Alumni Affairs (ODAA)
for the period 2020-2023. He had two
industrial sabbaticals, first one in 2015,
involved developing post-processing algorithms for
clinical MR Imaging at Samsung R&D Institute,
Bangalore. Another sabbatical in 2023-2024, he focused
on applying AI techniques to enhance CT imaging at GE
HealthCare’s Edison AI Advanced Technology Group (ATG)
in Bangalore.
He was a recipient of the Apple
Laureate award in 2009. He also received the
Department of Atomic Energy Young Scientist Research
Award in 2010 and the coauthor of the work chosen for
the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in
Medicine (ISMRM) Merit Award (Summa Cum Laude) in
2012. He is a recipient of the Indian National Academy
of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer award and
Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (Government of
India) for the year 2013. He also received the
National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)Young
Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award in 2014. He received
S. Ramachandran-National Bioscience Award for the year
2020 from Department of Biotechnology, Government of
India.
His research interests include
computational methods in medical imaging, deep
learning in medical imaging, medical image processing
(reconstruction/analysis), physiological signal
processing, diffuse optical imaging, and photoacoustic
imaging. He is a senior member of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE,
and serves as an associate
editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
