Siddhartha Sikdar
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, June 2005
Dissertation: Ultrasonic Imaging of Flow-induced Vibrations in Tissue.
Supervisor: Yongmin Kim, PhD, Professor and Chair, Bioengineering.
- Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, December 2001
Thesis: A Single-Mediaprocessor-based Programmable Ultrasound System.
- Bachelor of Technology, Electrical Engineering, June 1997
Biography
Siddhartha Sikdar joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University in Spring 2008, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. He is a PI at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and a guest researcher with the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center. His research interests are in translational research involving novel applications of ultrasound imaging. He has worked on new ultrasound signal and image processing methods and imaging systems for studying cardiovascular physiology and disease. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2005. From 2005-2007, he was a Senior Fellow in Bioengineering at the University of Washington and was the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship award from the American Heart Association.