#ABP2025
Speakers
Dr. Monorama Swain
Assistant Professor at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
Dr. Monorama Swain has completed her Postdoc from University of Copenhagen, Denmark where she had the privilege to work with Prof. Anders Søgaard, Professor in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning . She completed her PhD from BPUT Rourkela under the guidance of Prof. Aurobinda Routray (IIT, Kharagpur, India) and Prof. Prithviraj Kabisatpathy (Professor at CV Raman College of Engineering).​
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She is currently working on Speech emotion recognition, speech recognition, bias, and fairness in Multilingual ASR, and Biomedical signal processing. She has published different top tier Journals and Top NLP conferences like EMNLP and Speech conferences like ICASSP AND INTERSPEECH.
Dr. Shivaram Poigai Arunachalam
Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN
Shivaram P Arunachalam is the Director of the Microwave Engineering and Imaging Laboratory (MEIL), the Director of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics for the Department of Medicine, and the Director of GIH Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (GAIL) in the Gastroenterology Hepatology Division in the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
He is also the Founder and CEO of Patfoci Technologies Inc. He previously worked as a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at South Dakota State University (2004-2010) and as a Student Electronic Technician/Electrical design engineer at Daktronics.
His research interests are in the field of Cardiac Electrophysiology, ECG/PCG/SCG Signal Processing, Medical Imaging, and Cardiac MR Elastography.
Smt. M. Menaka
Smt. M. Menaka is a Senior Scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in Kalpakkam, India, specializing in non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques.
Her work primarily focuses on infrared thermal imaging, digital industrial radiography, image processing, and breast thermography, contributing to advancements in nuclear reactor safety and material characterization.
Dr. Niruban G.
Associate Professor and the Officer-in-charge of the Department of Ophthalmology, JIPMER, Karaikal
Dr. Niruban Ganesan is an accomplished ophthalmologist serving as an Associate Professor and the Officer-in-charge of the Department of Ophthalmology at JIPMER Karaikal.
He holds an M.S., DNB, and FRCS from Glasgow, in addition to being a fellow in cornea and refractive surgery. Having joined the institution in 2020 to help establish the department, his primary clinical and research interest lies in the cornea.
Dr. V. B. Surya Prasath
Assistant Professor, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati
He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Biomedical Informatics at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Pediatrics, Computer Science, at the University of Cincinnati from 2018.
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His main research interests include applied mathematics, data science, image processing, computer vision, and machine learning with applications in various biomedical informatics domains. His current research focuses are in biomedical imaging informatics, and bioinformatics with AI/ML/DL techniques.
Dr. Santhosh Satheesh
Professor, Department of Cardiology, JIPMER, Puducherry
Dr. Santhosh Satheesh is a distinguished Professor in the Department of Cardiology at JIPMER, Puducherry.
Holding advanced qualifications of MD (Medicine) and DM (Cardiology), he specializes in coronary interventions, coronary physiology, coronary imaging, heart failure, and valvular interventions.
Dr. N. Madurai Meenachi is a scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in Kalpakkam, India, affiliated with the Scientific Information and Resource Division.
Her research focuses on semantic web technologies, machine learning, and knowledge management, particularly in the nuclear domain. She has contributed significantly to developing semantic web-based knowledge representation systems and ontologies for nuclear reactors.
Smt. Kanaga
Smt. Kangana is a Scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in Kalpakkam, India
Dr. Malaya Kumar Nath
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Puducherry
Malaya Kumar Nath completed B. E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from BPUT Odisha, India, and M. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (Signal Processing) from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He completed his Ph.D. on Signal Processing from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
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He joined the National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal in July 2013, where he currently holds an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. Besides teaching, he has been assigned academic responsibilities such as: department academic coordinator, M.Tech. project coordinator, BoS member, etc. He was seconded to the Asian Institute of Technology Bangkok, Thailand.
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His area of research includes machine learning and biomedical image processing.