Prof. Manojit Pramanik

Dr. Manojit Pramanik received his Ph.D. degree (2010) in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (SCBE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He obtained his masters (M.Tech.) degree from Department of Instrumentation at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in 2004. He did his undergraduate (B.Tech) from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India in 2002. Prior to joining NTU he served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India for a short period. His industry experiences include two years at General Electric Global Research (GRC), Bangalore, India and one year at Philips Medical System, Bangalore, India. He is the recipient of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India Young Scientist Research Award 2013. His research interest is in Medical Imaging Systems, Photoacoustic and Thermoacoustic Imaging, Image Reconstruction, Machine Learning, Medical Image Processing, Contrast Agents, Molecular Imaging, Monte-Carlo Simulation for light-tissue interaction, Biomedical Optics, Biomedical Device Design, Healthcare Innovation, Clinical Application areas such as Breast Cancer Imaging, Brain Imaging, Pancreatic Cancer, Diabetes, Treatment Monitoring etc. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Biomedical Optics, and as an Editorial Board Member of Photoacoustics. He also served as Guest Editor for special issues in the Journal of Biomedical Optics, Biomedical Engineering Letters. He is a Senior Member of SPIE, IEEE. Professor Pramanik is also the inaugural “Biodesign Faculty Fellow” offered by the Singapore Biodesign Programme (in collaboration with Stanford Biodesign Fellowship).