Faculty

Ashwin B Parthasarathy Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
Email  : ashwinbp@usf.edu
Phone : (813) 974 7407
Office  : ENB 257
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Bio

Dr. Ashwin B Parthasarathy is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida. He completed his doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and his postdoctoral research at Boston University and University of Pennsylvania. He has been on the faculty at the University of South Florida since 2016.

Dr. Parthasarathy's research integrates optics, physics, engineering, and computation principles to develop novel imaging/monitoring technology for applications that include bedside diagnoses/monitoring of brain injuries, intraoperative imaging, critical care monitoring, and modeling neurophysiology & neuroprotection.

Postdoctoral Associates

Vishnu Kumar Raghu Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate
Email  : vishnukumarr1@usf.edu

Dr. Vishnu Kumar Raghu is a postdoctoral associate at the University of South Florida. He completed his doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru, and has a bachelors degree in ELectronics and Telecommunication and a Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering. His primary research focus lies in biomedical optics, encompassing spectroscopy, lasers and instrumentation.

Graduate Students

Penaz Parveen Sultana Mohammad

PhD Student
Department of Electrical Engineering

Parveen is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida. Her research intrests are Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy(fNIRS), Diffuse Optics, with a strong focus on data analysis. Her educational background includes a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Biomedical and Control systems, and a Bachelor's degree in Instrument Technology.

Mitchell Harrah

PhD Student
Department of Medical Engineering

Mitch is a Ph.D. student in Medical Engineering at the University of South Florida. His research interests are on laser-tissue interaction.

Md. Nahidul Haque Bhuiyan

PhD Student
Department of Electrical Engineering

Nahid is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida. His research is primarily centered around Diffuse Speckle and Correlation Spectroscopy in the development of non-invasive medical devices.

Sean Aleman

PhD Student
Department of Medical Engineering

Sean is a Ph.D. student in Medical Engineering at the University of South Florida. His research interests are in using speckle biophotonics.

Mrinmoy Sarker Turja

PhD Student
Department of Electrical Engineering

Mrinmoy is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida. His research is in novel biomedical optics devices.

Mumtaz Hassan

Masters Student
Department of Medical Engineering

Mumtaz is a Masters (thesis) student in Medical Engineering at the University of South Florida.

Satish Chowdary Neppalli

Masters Student
Department of Medical Engineering

Satish is pursuing a master's in Biomedical Engineering at the university of South Florida. His research interests are diffuse optics and intraoperative imaging.

Undergraduate Students

Tristan Valenzuela

Undergraduate Student Researcher (REU)
Department of Electrical Engineering

Tristan is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida. His research interests are in Biomedical Instrumentation and Diffuse Optics.

Shovan Shakya

Undergraduate Student Researcher (REU)
Department of Electrical Engineering

Shovan is an undergradauate student pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He is interested in Biomedical Instrumentation, fNIRS and Brain Computer Interface.

Gabriel Anderson

Undergraduate Student Researcher
Department of Electrical Engineering

Gabe is an undergradauate student pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He is interested in optics, medical technology, and biomedical instrumentation. Gabe is also a student at the USF Judy Genshaft Honors College.

Alumni

Sadhu Moka
PhD in Electrical Engineering
Current Positon: Onicon, Largo, FL

Arindam Biswas
PhD in Electrical Engineering
Current Positon: Ocean Insight, Rochester, NY

Abdul Mohaimen Safi
PhD in Electrical Engineering
Current Positon: Senior Engineer, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA.

Paul Long
MS in Electrical Engineeging, Research Engineer
Current Positon: Draper.

Dillon Buffone
MS in Electrical Engineering
Current Positon: Raytheon.

Ayisha Necholi
BS in Electrical Engineering
Current Positon:

Abhishek Kandukuru
BA in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Current Positon: Medical School.

Henri Ramadani
BS in Computer Science and Engineering
Current Positon:

Steve Sheehy
BS in Electrical Engineering
Current Positon: BAE Systems.

Stephen Cini
BS in Chemical Engineering
Current Positon: PhD student at Notre Dame.

Oyindamola Teniola
BS in Biomedical Engineering
Current Positon: PhD student at Univ. of Connecticut.

Yehia Helwa
BS in Electrical Engineering
Current Positon: Draper.

Lance Landrum
BS in Electrical Engineering
Current Positon: NASA.

Nikola Otic
BS in Electrical Engineering (REU)
Current Positon: PhD student at Boston University.

Moksheta Chellani
BS in Electrical Engineering
Current Positon:

Jordan Miller
BS in Computer Science and Engineering
Current Positon:

Kaleb Marroquin
BS in Electrical Engineering (REU)
Current Positon: Intel.

Kelly Stukbaueur
BS in Electrical Engineering (REU)
Current Positon: Lockheed Martin.