Pulse Echo Research Group

The People
Behind the Research

A multidisciplinary team spanning signal processing, hardware design, machine learning, and clinical translation — united by a shared mission to make (ultra)sound affordable and intelligent.


Leadership

Principal Investigator

Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker
Principal Investigator

Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker

Associate Professor, Infocomm Technology Cluster
Singapore Institute of Technology

Signal / Image / Video Processing ML for Imaging Accelerated & Embedded Computing
Research Scholars Active
Gopika Gopikrishnan
D.Engg Scholar
Gopika Gopikrishnan

Distributed Continual Learning for Medical Ultrasound Imaging

Somashekhar Dehury
D.Engg Scholar
Somashekhar Dehury

Towards a Wearable Multi-view Echocardiography Patch: Signal Processing and System Integration

Project Staff Active
Rudra Sainatha
Project Staff
Rudra Sainatha

A flexible array ultrasound imaging system for hands-free automatic and continuous assessment of blood flow and tissue dynamics

Past Members

Alumni

Graduates and former members who have moved on to impactful roles across academia and industry worldwide.

Dr. Gayathri M
Dr. Gayathri M
Aug 2018 – Jun 2023

Cognitive Ultrasound — Towards Tissue Adaptive Software Beamforming in Ultrasound Imaging

Lead Design Engineer – Ultrasound Probes, GE Healthcare India, Bangalore
↗ LinkedIn
Dr. Madhavanunni A N
Dr. Madhavanunni A N
Aug 2018 – Jun 2023

Ultrafast Ultrasound System for Flow Dynamics and Imaging

Post Doctoral Fellow, CNRS @ CREATIS Laboratory, INSA Lyon, France
↗ LinkedIn
Dr. Mimisha M Menakath
Dr. Mimisha M Menakath
Aug 2020 – Oct 2025

Signal processing for underwater real time 3D acoustical imaging

Post Doctoral Fellow, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
↗ LinkedIn
Dr. Pisharody Harikrishnan Gopalkrishnan
Dr. Pisharody Harikrishnan Gopalkrishnan
Aug 2020 – Feb 2026

Novel Transducer Array Designs for High Frame Rate Ultrasound Imaging

Technical Superintendent — Electrical Engineering, IIT Palakkad
↗ IIT PKD Profile
5
Ms. Midhila M
Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing and Imaging
Aug 2022 – Mar 2024
4
Dr. Sreehari V R
Target Detection using Side Scan Sonar (SSS) and Multibeam Echosounder (MBE) Images
Aug 2022 – Mar 2024
3
Ms. Jinu Joseph
Automated Image Analysis for Lung Ultrasound
Feb 2021 – Aug 2021
2
Ms. Arya Sankar
Automated Image Analysis for Lung Ultrasound
Oct 2020 – Jan 2021
1
Mr. Mani Chandra
Automated Image Analysis for Lung Ultrasound
May 2020 – Aug 2020
2
Ms. Sandhya K
Modular Neural Networks for Low Power Computer Vision Applications
Aug 2021 – May 2022
1
Mr. Ankur Sharma
Onboard FPGA based adaptive beamforming with neural network accelerator for ultrasound imaging
Aug 2021 – May 2022
22
Mr. Arun Kumar V
Development of a High Frame Rate Portable Ultrasound System
Aug 2022 – May 2023
21
Mr. Ayush Singh
Reinforcement Learning Based Video Summarization
Aug 2022 – May 2023
20
Mr. Joel Jeffrey
Unsupervised Beamforming for Ultrasound Imaging
Aug 2022 – May 2023
19
Mr. Antony Gerald
Novel 3D Reconstruction in Ultrasound Imaging using 1D probes
Aug 2022 – May 2023
18
Mr. Asif MS
Aberration Correction for Improved Image Quality in Ultrasound Imaging
Aug 2022 – May 2023
17
Mr. Joel Joy
High frame rate multi-perspective ultrasound imaging
Aug 2022 – May 2023
16
Ms. Shreeya
A learning framework for annotation inclusive image acquisition for point-of-care ultrasound imaging
Aug 2022 – May 2023
15
Mr. Sairoop Bodepudi
Graph Neural Networks for Ultrasound Imaging
Aug 2021 – May 2022
14
Mr. Rohit Singh
Reinforcement Learning for Beamforming in Ultrasound Imaging
Aug 2021 – May 2022
13
Mr. Abhishek M S
FPGA based Reconfigurable Beamforming in Ultrasound Imaging
Aug 2021 – May 2022
12
Mr. Posani Naga Radha Krishna
Comparison of diverging wave and planewave transmit schemes for high frame rate flow imaging
Aug 2021 – May 2022
11
Mr. Mayank Katare
Neural network accelerated libraries for ultrasound beamforming
Aug 2021 – May 2022
10
Mr. Arjun
Investigation of Neural Circuits for Mimicking Human Level Color Constancy
Aug 2021 – May 2022
9
Mr. Roshan Mathew
Reinforcement Learning in Ultrasound Imaging
Aug 2020 – May 2021
8
Ms. Maria Rose Joseph
System Independent Attenuation Estimation in Ultrasound Imaging
Aug 2020 – May 2021
7
Mr. Satchit Desai
High Frame Rate Ultrasound Imaging for Needle Tracking
Aug 2020 – May 2021
6
Mr. Naveen V
A Low Cost Ultrasound System Based On Sparse Transducer Arrays
Aug 2019 – May 2020
5
Mr. Amit Kumar
Parametric Ultrasound Imaging System Towards Computational Sonography
Aug 2019 – May 2020
4
Mr. Saurabh Inge
Manifold Learning
Jan 2020 – May 2020
3
Mr. Ankit Singh
Airborne Ultrasound Based Human Computer Interaction System
Aug 2018 – May 2019
2
Ms. Rachakonda Samhitha
Automated Noise Detection And Classification for ECG Holter Monitoring Systems
Aug 2018 – May 2019
1
Mr. S Somasekharan
Emotion Detection using Non-Invasive Low-Cost Sensors
Aug 2018 – May 2019
12
Mr. Arpan Tripathi
Unsupervised Keypoint Detection In Lung Ultrasound Images/Videos
Feb – May 2021
11
Mr. Arjun & Mr. Aniket Singh Rajput
Subject Independent Emotion Recognition using EEG Signals Employing Attention Driven Neural Networks
Feb – May 2021
10
Mr. Adithya Sineesh
Edge Preserving Pooling strategies in Convolutional Neural Networks
Dec 2020 – Oct 2021
9
Mr. Lafith Mattara
Multi-scale Image Enhancement for Industrial CT images
Dec 2020 – Jan 2021
8
Ms. Aparna Valoor
Motion Estimation using Neural Networks for Ultrasound based Flow Estimation (IAS Funded)
Jun – Aug 2021
7
Mr. Vishnu Ajith
Motion Estimation using Neural Networks for Ultrasound based Flow Estimation (IAS Funded)
Jun – Aug 2021
6
Mr. Fatwir Sheikh Mohammed
Video Magnification Applied to Ultrasound Imaging (IAS Funded)
Jun – Aug 2021
5
Mr. Lafith Mattara
Estimation of point spread function of ultrasound images
Dec 2020 – Jan 2021
4
Ms. Anagha Zachariah
Video Summarization in Lung Ultrasound Imaging
Aug – Oct 2020
3
Mr. Soorya V
Automated Image Analysis for Lung Ultrasound
May – Jul 2020
2
Ms. Caroline John
Delay and Sum Fixed Beamforming and Minimum Variance Adaptive Beamforming — A Comparison
May – Jul 2019
1
Mr. Mohit Singh
Towards Bone Aware Image Enhancement in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Imaging (IAS Funded)
May – Jul 2019