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Biosketch
Profile
- 14+ years of post PhD experience in research and development of signal/image/video processing algorithms for bio-medical and industrial applications with 8+ years in industry (ex GE and Samsung).
- Senior Member with IEEE, Six Sigma Green Belt certified and a TRIZ practitioner.
- Published research findings in 21 international journals, 48 international conferences and 11 patents.
- Associated Editor - Springer Circuits Systems and Signal Processing
- Consultant to GE Healthcare Bangalore, Samsung Research Institute Bangalore, VisiConsult Inc, Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO) labs such as Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) and Naval Physical & Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL).
- Recipient of Early Career Research Award from Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India in 2019.
- Won GE wide technical excellence awards in 2013 and 2015.
- Won silver award for ten or more patents with GE
Education
- Ph.D., 2009
- School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
- Dissertation topic: Reconfigurable low complexity digital filter banks for software radio receivers
- Link: https://www.doi.org/10.32657/10356/47469
- Advisor: Professor Vinod Achutavarrier Prasad
- B. Tech., 2003 (First Rank in the University)
- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology (Govt. Engineering College), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India
- Dissertation topic: Microprocessor based Autonomous Robot
- Advisor: Professor Dinesh Gopinath
Professional Experience
Total Work Experience – 16 years (Teaching: 6 years, Industry: 8 years, Post Doctoral: 2 years)
Nov 2021 – Till Now Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad Associate Professor and Head of the Department, Electrical Engineering June 2018 – Nov 2021 Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering May 2017 – May 2018 Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore, India Senior Chief Engineer, Ultrasound Systems, Healthcare and Medical Equipments (HME) Aug 2010 – April 2017 GE Global Research, Bangalore, India Lead Engineer at Software Sciences and Analytics Research Aug 2008 – Jul 2010 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Research Fellow Nov 2007 – Dec 2007 SUPELEC, Rennes, France Merlion Project Grant Intern Aug 2005 – Jul 2008 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Teaching Assistant Aug 2003 – Jul 2005 SAINTGITS College of Engineering, Mahatma Gandhi University, India Lecturer -
Research
Visit www.pulseecho.in for full details of our research
Technology Interests
- Signal/Image/Video processing
- Machine/Deep Learning for Imaging/Reconstruction
- Accelerated and Embedded Computing
Domain Interests
- Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging
- Acoustic Imaging (Airborne and Underwater) and Image Processing
- Biomedical Systems
- Non-destructive Evaluation
Research Grants (Ongoing)
- "Aberration Correction for Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging", GE Healthcare Bangalore (Facilities: ML350 Compute) (Principal Investigator)
- "Cognitive Ultrasound" , NVIDIA Hardware Research Grant (Facilities: NVIDIA CLARA AGX Dev Kit) (Principal Investigator)
- Robust receive beamforming algorithm for underwater sonar imaging system for Mine Like Object Detection in the presence of reverberation", DRDO-NPOL CARS , Rs 9,89,218, July 2022- June 2023 (Principal Investigator)
- Target Detection using Side Scan Sonar (SSS) and Multibeam Echosounder (MBE) Images", DRDO-CAIR CARS , Rs 19,65,000, May 2022 - Dec 2023 (Principal Investigator)
Research Grants (Completed)
- "Investigation of a portable, affordable and self-guided bedside ultrasound system for tissue and blood velocity imaging", Early Career Research (ECR) award, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India,, Rs 49,01,830, March 2019 - June 2022 (Principal Investigator)
- "An automated lung ultrasound workflow for diagnostic assistance in COVID-19 and beyond", COVID19 Special Core Research Grant, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India, Rs 12,02,960, Aug 2020 - Aug 2021;(Principal Investigator)
- "Automated Lung Ultrasound for COVID-19 Screening and Monitoring", CSR Fund - Federal Bank, Rs 6,00,000, May;2020 - October 2020 (Principal Investigator)
Publications
For full list of publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FkF8Zh0AAAAJ&hl=en
Citations: 1153
h-index: 16
i10-index: 18Research Portfolio
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Teaching
· Microprocessor Systems: Design and Interfacing (Theory & Lab) (Jan - May 2019, Jan - May 2020, Feb-May 2021, Jan-May 2022, Jan-May 2023) [Online Lectures]
· Digital Image Processing (July - Dec 2019, Aug-Nov 2020, Aug-Dec 2021, Aug-Dec 2022) [Online Lectures]
· Digital Circuits Lab (July - Dec 2019, April 2021, Aug-Dec 2021, Aug-Dec 2022)
· Sensor Arrays and Imaging (Feb - May 2021) [Online Lectures]
· Analog and Digital Communication Systems (July - Dec 2018)
· Control Systems Lab (July - Dec 2018)
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Research Group
Ph.D
Ms. Gayathri M
- Email: 121814001@smail.iitpkd.ac.in
- Website: https://iitpkd.ac.in/people/121814001
- Research Topic: Research Area: Cognitive Ultrasound - Towards Tissue Adaptive Software Beamforming in Ultrasound Imaging
Mr. Madhavanunni A N
- Email: 121813001@smail.iitpkd.ac.in
- Website: https://iitpkd.ac.in/people/121813001
- Research Topic: Research Area: Portable Vector Flow Imaging for Ambulatory Scenarios
Mr. Pisharody Harikrishnan Gopalkrishnan
- Email: hgpisharody@iitpkd.ac.in
- Website: https://iitpkd.ac.in/people/hgpisharody
- Research Topic: Research Area: Novel Transducer Array Designs for High Frame Rate Ultrasound Imaging
Ms. Mimisha M Menakath
- Email: 122014006@smail.iitpkd.ac.in
- Website: https://iitpkd.ac.in/people/122014006
- Research Topic: Research Area: Underwater High Frame Rate Acoustic Imaging
Project Staff
Mr. Sreehari VR
- Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreehari-v-r-a7361515/
- Research Topic: Research Area: Target Detection using Side Scan Sonar (SSS) and Multibeam Echosounder (MBE) Images
Ms. Midhila Madhusoodanan
- Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/midhila-madhusoodanan-2a568823a/
- Research Topic: Research Area: Robust receive beamforming algorithm for underwater sonar imaging system for Mine Like Object Detection in the presence of reverberation
BTP
1. Mr. Antony Gerald (Aug 2022 - May 2023 ) Title: Novel 3D Reconstruction in Ultrasound Imaging using 1D probes
2. Mr. Asif MS (Aug 2022 - May 2023) Title: Aberration Correction for Improved Image Quality in Ultrasound Imaging
3. Mr. Joel Joy (Aug 2022 - May 2023) Title: High frame rate multi-perspective ultrasound imaging
4. Ms. Shreeya (Aug 2022 - May 2023) Title: A learning framework for annotation inclusive image acquisition for point-of-care ultrasound imaging
Past Students/Staff
Project Staff
3. Ms. Jinu Joseph (Feb 2021 - Aug 2021) Project: Automated Image Analysis for Lung Ultrasound
2. Ms. Arya Sankar (Oct 2020 - Jan 2021) Project: Automated Image Analysis for Lung Ultrasound
1. Mr. Mani Chandra (May 2020 - Aug 2020) Project: Automated Image Analysis for Lung Ultrasound
MTP
2. Ms. Sandhya K (Aug 2021 - May 2022 ) Title: Modular Neural Networks for Low Power Computer Vision Applications
1. Mr. Ankur Sharma (Aug 2021 - May 2022 ) Title: Onboard FPGA based adaptive beamforming with neural network accelerator for ultrasound imaging
BTP
15. Mr. Sairoop Bodepudi (Aug 2021 - May 2022 ) Title: Graph Neural Networks for Ultrasound Imaging
14. Mr. Rohit Singh (Aug 2021 - May 2022) Title: Reinforcement Learning for Beamforming in Ultrasound Imaging
13. Mr. Abhishek M S (Aug 2021 - May 2022) Title: FPGA based Reconfigurable Beamforming in Ultrasound Imaging
12. Mr. Posani Naga Radha Krishna (Aug 2021 - May 2022) Title: Comparison of diverging wave and planewave transmit schemes for high frame rate flow imaging
11. Mr. Mayank Katare (Aug 2021 - May 2022) Title: Neural network accelerated libraries for ultrasound beamforming
10. Mr. Arjun (Aug 2021 - May 2022) (Main Advisor: Prof. Thomas Serre, Brown University) Title: Investigation of Neural Circuits for Mimcking Human Level Color Constancy
9. Mr. Roshan Mathew (Aug 2020 - May 2021 ) Title: Reinforcement Learning in Ultrasound Imaging
8. Ms. Maria Rose Joseph (Aug 2020 - May 2021 ) Title: System Independent Attenuation Estimation in Ultrasound Imaging
7. Mr. Satchit Desai (Aug 2020 - May 2021 ) Title: High Frame Rate Ultrasound Imaging for Needle Tracking
6. Mr. Naveen V (Aug 2019 - May 2020) Title: A Low Cost Ultrasound System Based On Sparse Transducer Arrays
5. Mr. Amit Kumar (Aug 2019 - May 2020) Title: Parametric Ultrasound Imaging System Towards Computational Sonography
4. Mr. Saurabh Inge (Jan 2020 - May 2020) (Main Advisor: Prof. Wei Qi Yan, Auckland University of Technology) Title: Manifold Learning
3. Mr. Ankit Singh (Aug 2018 - May 2019) Title: Airborne Ultrasound Based Human Computer Interaction System
2. Ms. Rachakonda Samhitha (Aug 2018 - May 2019) Title: Automated Noise Detection And Classification for ECG Holter Monitoring Systems
1. Mr. S Somasekharan (Aug 2018 - May 2019) Title: Emotion Detection using Non-Invasive Low-Cost Sensors
Internships
12. Mr. Arpan Tripathi (Feb 2021 - May 2021 ) Title: Unsupervised Keypoint Detection In Lung Ultrasound Images/Videos
11. Mr. Arjun and Mr. Aniket Singh Rajput (Feb 2021 - May 2021 ) Title: Subject Independent Emotion Recognition using EEG Signals Employing Attention Driven Neural Networks
10. Mr. Adithya Sineesh (Dec 2020 - Oct 2021) Title: Edge Preserving Pooling strategies in Convolutional Neural Networks
9. Mr. Lafith Mattara (Dec 2020- Jan 2021) Title: Multi-scale Image Enhnacement for Industrial CT images
8. Ms. Aparna Valoor (Jun 2021- Aug 2021) (Funded by Indian Academy of Sciences) Title: Motion Estimation using Neural Networks for Ultrasound based Flow Estimation
7. Mr. Vishnu Ajith (Jun 2021- Aug 2021) (Funded by Indian Academy of Sciences) Title: Motion Estimation using Neural Networks for Ultrasound based Flow Estimation
6. Mr. Fatwir Sheikh Mohammed (Jun 2021- Aug 2021) (Funded by Indian Academy of Sciences) Title: Video Magnification Applied to Ultrasound Imaging
5. Mr. Lafith Mattara (Dec 2020- Jan 2021) Title: Estimation of point spread function of ultrasound images
4. Ms. Anagha Zachariah (Aug 2020 - Oct 2020) Title: Video Summarization in Lung Ultrasound Imaging
3. Mr. Soorya V (May 2020 - July 2020) Title: Automated Image Analysis for Lung Ultrasound
2. Ms. Caroline John (May 2019 - July 2019) Title: Delay and Sum Fixed Beamforming and Minimum Variance Adaptive Beamforming-A Comparison
1. Mr. Mohit Singh (May 2019 - July 2019) (Funded by Indian Academy of Sciences) Title: Towards Bone Aware Image Enhancement in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Imaging
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Publications
Madhavanunni A.N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerElsevier Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 85 (2023)Gayathri M and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerBiomedical Physics & Engineering Express (2023)Adithya Sineesh and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerSpringer Multimedia Systems (2023)Gayathri M and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerIEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2022)Arpan Tripathi, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, Abhilash Rakkunedeth, Jacob Jaremko, Yale Tung Chen, Kiran Vishnu Narayan, Kesavadas CElsevier Computers in Biology and Medicine (2022)Roshan P Mathews, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, Abhilash R Hareendranathan, Yale Tung Chen, Jacob L Jaremko, Brian Buchanan, Kiran Vishnu Narayan, Kesavadas C, Greeta MathewsIEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (2022)Abhilash Rakkunedeth Hareendranathan, Arpan Tripathi, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, Yuyue Zhou, Jessica Knight and Jacob L JaremkoElsevier Computers in Biology and Medicine (2022)Mayank Katare, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, Madhavanunni A.N. and Gayathri MMICCAI 2022 - 5th international workshop on Machine Learning for Medical Image Reconstruction, MLMIR 2022 (2022)Roshan P Mathews, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, Abhilash R Hareendranathan, Yale Tung Chen, Jacob L Jaremko, Brian Buchanan, Kiran Vishnu Narayan, Kesavadas C, Greeta MathewsMICCAI 2022 - 3rd International Workshop of Advances in Simplifying Medical UltraSound (ASMUS) (2022)Mimisha M Menakath, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker and Hareesh GIEEE OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads (2022)Mimisha M Menakath, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker and Hareesh GIEEE OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads (2022)Madhavanunni A. N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerComputers in Biology and Medicine (2022)Rohith Reddy Rachala & Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerSpringer Nature Computer Science (2022)Arjun, Aniket Singh Rajpoot, Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerElsevier Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 75 (2022)Pisharody Harikrishnan Gopalakrishnan and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerProc. of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) (2022)Madhavanunni A.N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerProc. of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) (2022)Mimisha M Menakath, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker and Hareesh G.Oceans 2022 (2022)Roshan P Mathews, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker and Abhilash HareendranathanElsevier Software Impacts (2021)Madhavanunni A.N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Online, Oct 2021. (2021)Gayathri M and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Online, Oct 2021. (2021)Roshan P Mathews and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Online, Oct 2021. (2021)Arjun, Aniket Singh Rajpoot and Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Online, Oct 2021 (2021)Gayathri M and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerIEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium 2021 (2021)Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, Yale Tung Chen, Gayathri M, Madhavanunni A N, Kiran Vishnu Narayan, C Kesavadas and A P VinodIEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2021 (2021)Gayathri M and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerIEEE ISBI 2021 (2021)Gayathri M and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerIEEE TENCON 2020 (2020)Mohit Singh, Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker, Rajagopal K VIEEE TENCON 2020 (2020)Gayathri M and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerIEEE SPCOM 2020 (2020)Gayathri M and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerIEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS) (2020)Madhavanunni A.N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerIEEE ISBI 2020 (2020)Madhavanunni A.N. and Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerSPIE Medical Imaging 2020 (2020)Samhitha Rachakonda and R. MaheshTENCON 2019 (2019)Mahesh R. PanickerSigmund FrigstadPavan Kumar V AnnangiSrinivas VarnaAbhijit Vishwas PatilAnders Herman TorpUS Patent US20180085043A1 (2018)Mahesh Raveendranatha PanickerAjay Kumar BeheraVenkatesh RajagopalanVenkatarao RyaliVivek Venugopal BadamiBudhaditya HazraUS Patent US9657588B2 (2017)P. Bhushan, R. Mahesh, M. Radhika, J. SureshISMRM 2016 (2016)P. Bhushan, R. Mahesh, Ek Tsoon Tan, J. Suresh, M. Radhika, M. Luca, M. Rakesh,OHBM 2016 (2016)R. Mahesh, P. Bhushan, Ek Tsoon Tan, J. Suresh, M. Radhika, M. Luca, M. RakeshOHBM 2016 (2016)P. Bhushan, R. Mahesh, Ek Tsoon Tan, J. SureshOHBM 2015 (2015)R. Mahesh, P. Bhushan, Ek Tsoon Tan, J. SureshOHBM 2015 (2015)Smitha K. G., A. P. Vinod and R. Mahesh54th IEEE International MidWest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) (2011)Mahesh, R., and A. Prasad Vinod.Journal of Signal Processing Systems (2011)Mahesh, R., and A. Prasad Vinod.IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (2011)Mahesh, R., and A. Prasad Vinod.IET circuits, devices & systems (2011)Mahesh, R., and A. Prasad Vinod.IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (2011)Mahesh, R., and A. Prasad Vinod.Journal of Signal Processing Systems (2011)R. Mahesh and A. P. Vinod17th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (2010)R. Mahesh and A. P. VinodIEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (2010)R. Mahesh and A. P. VinodIEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (2010)Smitha K. G., R. Mahesh and A. P. VinodAsia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit and Conference (2010)Mahesh, R., and A. Prasad Vinod.IEEE transactions on computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems (2010)R. Mahesh, A. P. Vinod, B. Y. Tan and E. M-K. LaiIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2009)R. Mahesh and A. P. VinodIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2008)Smitha K. G., R. Mahesh and A. P. VinodIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2008)R. Mahesh, A. P. Vinod, Christophe Moy and Jacques Palicot3rd International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (2008)R. Mahesh and A. P. VinodURSI (International Union of Radio Science) General Assembly (2008)S. T. Gul, R. Mahesh, C. Moy, A. P. Vinod and Jacques PalicotURSI (International Union of Radio Science) General Assembly (2008)Mahesh, R., and A. Prasad Vinod.IEEE transactions on computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems (2008)Mahesh, R., and A. Prasad Vinod.IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (2008)Jimson Mathew, Mahesh, R., A. P. Vinod and Edmund M-K. Lai.IEICE transactions on fundamentals of electronics, communications and computer sciences (2008)R. Mahesh and A. P. VinodIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2007)R. Mahesh and A. P. VinodIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2007)G. Deepak, R. Mahesh and A. SluzekIEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems (2007)R. Mahesh and A. P. VinodSixth IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (2007)Jimson Mathew, R. Mahesh, A. P. Vinod and E. M-K. LaSixth IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (2007)R. Mahesh and A. P. VinodIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2006)R. Mahesh and A. P. Vinod17th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile radio communications (2006)G. Deepak, R. Mahesh and A. Sluzek13th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, (2006)