Suyash P. Awate

Siemens Corporate Research (SCR), Princeton, NJ 08540. http://www.cs.utah.edu/~suyash

Education
2006	Ph.D. in Computer Science (GPA 3.97) University of Utah Dissertation: Adaptive Markov models with information-theoretic methods for unsupervised image restoration and segmentation Advisor: Prof. Ross T. Whitaker
2001	B.E. in Computer Science (GPA 4.0, highest distinction) University of Mumbai, India Thesis: Image restoration using artificial neural networks Advisor: Prof. H. B. Kekre
Experience
'09 May – present	Siemens Corporate Research (SCR), Princeton Research Scientist in Imaging & Visualization Department
'06 Oct – '09 Apr	University of Pennsylvania, Department of Radiology Postdoctoral Researcher at Penn Image Computing & Science Laboratory (PICSL) with Prof. James C. Gee
Research Areas
image processing (denoising, segmentation, reconstruction, registration), medical image analysis (brain, heart, lung; MRI, DTI, CT; pediatric, neonatal), statistical inference, pattern recognition, information theory, differential geometry
Refereed Journal Papers
1. Pluta J, Avants B, Glynn S, Awate SP, Gee JC, Detre J Appearance and incomplete label matching for diffeomorphic template based hippocampus segmentation Hippocampus 2009; 19(6):565-571, Wiley 2. Awate SP, Zhang H, Gee JC A fuzzy, nonparametric segmentation framework for DTI and MRI analysis: with applications to DTI-tract extraction IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging (TMI) 2007; 26(11):1525-1536 3. Awate SP, Whitaker RT Feature-preserving MRI denoising: a nonparametric empirical-Bayesian approach IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging (TMI) 2007; 26(9):1242-1255 4. Adluru G, Awate SP, Tasdizen T, Whitaker R, DiBella EVR Temporally constrained reconstruction of dynamic cardiac perfusion MRI Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (MRM) 2007; 57:1027-1036, Wiley 5. Awate SP, Tasdizen T, Foster N, Whitaker RT Adaptive Markov modeling for mutual-information-based, unsupervised MRI brain-tissue classification (invited paper) Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) 2006; 10(5):726-739, Elsevier 6. Awate SP, Whitaker RT Unsupervised, information-theoretic, adaptive image filtering for image restoration IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2006; 28(3):364-376
Refereed Full-Length Conference Papers
1. Awate SP, Yushkevich P, Licht DJ, Gee JC Gender differences in cerebral cortical folding: multivariate complexity-shape analysis with insights into handling brain-volume differences Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2009; 11(1):200-207, Springer LNCS 5762 2. Zhang H, Awate SP, Das S, Woo J, Melhem E, Gee JC, Yushkevich P A tract-specific framework for white matter morphometry combining macroscopic and microscopic tract features Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2009; 11(1):141-149, Springer LNCS 5762 (young-investigator-award runner-up; in top 8% of 186 eligible papers; in top 3 in category) 3. Zheng Y, Grossman M, Awate SP, Gee JC Automatic correction of intensity nonuniformity from sparseness of gradient distribution in medical images Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2009; 11(1):852-859, Springer LNCS 5762 4. Awate SP, Yushkevich P, Song Z, Licht DJ, Gee JC Multivariate high-dimensional cortical folding analysis, combining complexity and shape, in neonates with congenital heart disease Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) 2009; 21:552-563, Springer LNCS 5636 5. Tustison N, Awate SP, Song G, Cook T, Gee JC A new information-theoretic measure to control the robustness-sensitivity trade-off for DMFFD point-set registration Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) 2009; 21:215-226, Springer LNCS 5636 6. Awate SP, Win L, Yushkevich P, Schultz RT, Gee JC 3D cerebral cortical morphometry in autism: increased folding in children and adolescents in frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2008; 11(1):559-567, Springer LNCS 5241 7. Awate SP, Zhang H, Gee JC Multivariate segmentation of brain tissues by fusion of MRI and DTI data IEEE Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2008; 5:213-216 (podium presentation, acceptance rate 17%) 8. Tustison N, Awate SP, Cai J, Altes T, Miller G, Lange E, Mugler J, Gee JC Point-set registration of tagged He-3 images using a structurally-based Jensen-Shannon divergence measure within a deterministic-annealing framework IEEE Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2008; 5:772-775 (podium presentation, acceptance rate 17%) 9. Cook PA, Zhang H, Awate SP, Gee JC Atlas-guided probabilistic diffusion-tensor fiber tractography IEEE Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2008; 5:951-954 10. Song Z, Awate SP, Gee JC Nonparametric Markov priors for tissue segmentation IEEE Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2008; 5:73-76 11. Song Z, Awate SP, Licht DJ, Gee JC Clinical neonatal brain-MRI segmentation using adaptive nonparametric data models and intensity-based Markov priors Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2007; 10(1):883-890, Springer LNCS 4791 12. Awate SP, Zhang H, Gee JC Fuzzy nonparametric DTI segmentation for robust cingulum-tract extraction Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2007; 10(1):294-301, Springer LNCS 4791 13. Awate SP, Gee JC A fuzzy, nonparametric segmentation framework for DTI and MRI analysis Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) 2007; 20:296-307, Springer LNCS 4584 14. Awate SP, DiBella EVR, Tasdizen T, Whitaker RT Model-based image reconstruction for dynamic cardiac perfusion MRI from sparse data IEEE Conf. Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society 2006; (1):936-941 (podium presentation, acceptance rate 17%) 15. Awate SP, Tasdizen T, Whitaker RT Unsupervised texture segmentation with nonparametric neighborhood statistics European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2006; 9:494-507, Springer LNCS 3952 (acceptance rate 21 %) 16. Tasdizen T, Awate SP, Whitaker RT, Foster N MRI tissue classification with neighborhood statistics: a nonparametric, entropy-minimizing approach Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2005; 8(2):517-525, Springer LNCS 3750 (podium presentation, acceptance rate 7 %) 17. Awate SP, Whitaker RT Nonparametric neighborhood statistics for MRI denoising Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) 2005; 19:677-688, Springer LNCS 3565 (acceptance rate 26 %) 18. Awate SP, Whitaker RT Higher-order image statistics for unsupervised, information-theoretic, adaptive image filtering IEEE Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2005; 2:44-51 (podium presentation, acceptance rate 6 %)
Abstracts, Technical Reports
1. Awate SP, Zhang H, Gee JC Novel statistical models and methods for DTI fiber-bundle segmentation Int. Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2008 (podium presentation, acceptance rate 17%) 2. Awate SP, Whitaker RT An interactive, parallel, multiprocessor, level-set solver with dynamic load balancing School of Computing, University of Utah, Technical Report UUCS-05-002 SIAM Conf. Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PPSC) 2004 (podium presentation)
Professional Service
· Peer reviewing for journals o IEEE Transactions § Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) § Medical Imaging (TMI) § Image Processing (TIP) § Signal Processing (TSP) § Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) o Elsevier § Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) § Image & Vision Computing (JIVC) § Pattern Recognition (PR) § Parallel & Distributed Computing (JPDC) o Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) § Multiscale Modeling & Simulation (MMS) § Imaging Sciences (SIIMS) o American Association of Physicists in Medicine § Medical Physics · Editorship for journals o Associate editor for Medical Physics (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) · Peer reviewing for conferences o Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2009, 2008, 2007 o IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2009 o Medical Imaging & Augmented Reality (MIAR) 2008 o Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Medical Imaging 2007
Patents
International patent applied for Image Denoising with Information-Theoretic Adaptive Filtering (application # PCT/US2005/039491, publication # WO/2006/050364)
Honors
2009		Young-investigator-award runner-up for MICCAI conference paper (2^nd author)
2001		Rank 8/2000 (top 0.4%) in B.E. University of Mumbai; Rank 1/120 in college
1997 – 2001		Dhirubhai Ambani Undergraduate Merit Scholarship
1997, 1998		IIT Entrance Exam rank in top 1% from 150,000+ examinees in India
1997		National Merit Scholarship Scheme Certificate from the Government of India (top 0.1% in All India Senior Secondary School Examination)
Computing Skills
· Contributed multi-threaded C++ code to widely-used open-source software ITK · Image-processing tools: ITK, VTK, Matlab, FFTW, Vispack · Programming: C/C++, Linux Shell, Perl, OpenGL, GLUT, Tcl/Tk, x86 assembly