Dr. Abhinav Kumar Jha

Professor Jha is an assistant professor with joint appointments in biomedical engineering and radiology and courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering at Washington University. Previously, he was a faculty at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Jha obtained his PhD from the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, where he was the valedictorian of his graduating batch. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER, NIBIB Trailblazer, and NIH R01 awards. His research and teaching have also been recognized through several other awards such as the Young Investigator Symposium Award of Distinction for Translational Sciences at the ECOG-ACRIN meeting, Michael B. Merickel Best Student Paper award at SPIE Medical Imaging, Therapy Center for Excellence Young Investigator award, Imaging Innovator of the week of the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, 30 Early Career Professionals to Watch of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, and the Outstanding Teaching Associate Award. He is on the Board of Directors of the Physics, Instrumentation and Data Sciences Council of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and a senior member of the IEEE.