Prof. Manojit Pramanik

Dr. Pramanik received his Ph.D. degree (2010) in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He joined Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University from spring 2023 as Associate Professor. He is also a Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at Iowa State University. Prior to that, he was at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore from 2014-2022. He obtained his masters (MTech) from Department of Instrumentation at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in 2004 and his undergraduate (BTech) from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India in 2002. He also served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India 2012-2013. His industry experiences include two years at General Electric Global Research (GRC), Bangalore, India and one year at Philips Medical System, Bangalore, India. His research interest is in Medical Imaging Systems, Photoacoustic and Thermoacoustic Imaging, Image Reconstruction, Machine Learning, Contrast Agents, Molecular Imaging, Monte-Carlo Simulation for light-tissue interaction. He has more than 250 international journal and conference publications and presentations. Professor Pramanik has received research grants as principal investigator, with a cumulative budget of over $3.5M. 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).