Srivatsan Pallavaram

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Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Medical Image & Signal Processing,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Project: Computer aided Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)

Research Advisor: Professor Benoit Dawant

Collaboration: Department of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Peter Konrad, Dr. Chris Kao, Dr. Joseph Neimat, Dr. John Spooner, Dr. Hong Yu

Affiliated Laboratories: Medical Image Processing Lab

Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE),
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), California, USA (June 2004)
Major (Signal Processing) GPA: 3.9/4.0

Research Advisor: Professor Sanjit Mitra

Affiliated Laboratories: Image Processing Research Laboratory and Haptic Soundscapes Research Laboratory

Master's Research: Spot Identification in cDNA microarray images.

• Digital Image Processing
• Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs)
• Multimedia Compression
• Random Processes
• Data Mining
• Matrix Analysis and Computation

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communication Engineering
University of Madras, India (May 2002)
Class standing: RANK 3 (TOP 5%)
Project: Dynamically stopping iterations in Turbo Decoding

Research & Teaching Experience

• Research Assistant (RA), Medical Image Processing Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, since Spring 2005.
• Teaching Affiliate with the Center for Teaching (CFT), Vanderbilt University, 2006-2007.
• Teaching Assistant (TA) to Prof. Richard Alan Peters II, EECE/CS 253: Digital Image Processing, fall 2004, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
• Teaching Asssitant (TA) to Prof. B.S. Manjunath for ECE 178: Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing , winter 2004, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Graduate Student Researcher, Image Processing Research Laboratory,
  Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, April 2003 - present
  Advisor:Professor Sanjit Mitra
• Graduate Student Researcher, Haptic Soundscapes Research Laboratory,
  Dept. of Geography, September 2002 - September 2003
  Advisor: Professor Reginald Golledge
• Student Assistant, Haptic Soundscapes Research Laboratory,
  Dept. of Geography, October 2003 - December 2003
• Worked on the analysis of ambient air pollutants in the city of Chennai (India) during 2000, results were published in Proc of National Conference on Pollution Prevention and Control, Nagpur, India
• In-plant training at Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Bangalore, India (May 00)

  

Publications &
Presentations

1. Joseph S. Neimat, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Pierre-François D’Haese, Chris Kao, Hong Yu, Michael Remple, Peter E. Konrad, Benoit M. Dawant, Computerized brain atlas provides anatomic prediction of stimulation efficacy in patients undergoing deep brain stimulation(DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus(STN), Poster at American Society of Sterotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ASSFN) Biennial meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 1-4, 2008.
2. Michael S. Remple, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Pierre F. D’Haese, Benoit M. Dawant, Joseph S. Neimat, Organization of sensorimotor responses in the human subthalamic nucleus (STN), American Society of Neurophysiological Monitoring (ASNM), May 2-4, Chicago, IL
3. Benjamin P. Rosenbaum, Pierre-François D’Haese, Hong Yu, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Benoit M. Dawant, Joseph S. Neimat, Peter E. Konrad, Brain Shift during Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery Correlates Directly to Pneumocephalus and Inversely to Age, Poster at American Society of Sterotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ASSFN) Biennial meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 1-4, 2008.
4. Hong Yu, Pierre-François D’Haese, Tatsuki Koyama, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Benoit M. Dawant, Joseph Niemat, Peter E. Konrad, Automated Algorithm Selects Anterior and Posterior Commissure Points Better than Experienced Neurosurgeons, Poster at American Society of Sterotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ASSFN) Biennial meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 1-4, 2008.
5. Hong Yu, Benjamin P. Rosenbaum, Pierre-François D’Haese, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Prashanth Dumpuri, Benoit M. Dawant, Joseph S. Neimat, Peter E. Konrad, Predicting Brain Shift in Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery, Poster at American Society of Sterotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ASSFN) Biennial meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 1-4, 2008.
6. Srivatsan Pallavaram, Hong Yu, John Spooner, Pierre-François D’Haese, Bobby Bodenheimer, Peter E. Konrad, Benoit M. Dawant, "Inter-surgeon variability in the selection of anterior and posterior commissures and its potential effects on target localization", Journal of Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 2008;86:113-119 (DOI: 10.1159/000116215).
7. Anusha Sathyanarayanan, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Robert Bodenheimer, Kevin Robinson, Benoit Dawant, Thomas L. Davis, "Quantification of Movement Using a Nintendo Wii Remote", American Neurological Association (132nd meeting), 2007.
8. Hong Yu, Pierre-Francois D'Haese, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Benoit M. Dawant, Peter E. Konrad, "The use of a functional atlas for automated targeting in deep brain stimulation surgery", Southern Neurosurgical Society Annual Meeting, Sea Island, Georgia, March 14 - 17, 2007.
9. Andrew B. Conrad, Thomas L. Davis, Peter E. Konrad, Benoit Dawant, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Michael Gensheimer, "Ventricular Volume Associations With Transient Encephalopathy Following Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery", American Academy of Neurology (AAN) conference, Boston: April 28-May 5, 2007.
10. Benoit Dawant, Pierre-François D’Haese, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Hong Yu, John Spooner, Thomas Davis, Chris Kao, Peter E. Konrad, "The VU-DBS project: integrated and computer-assisted planning, intra-operative placement, and post-operative programming of deep brain stimulators", SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium, Visualization and Image-Guided Procedures conference, San Diego, February 2007.
11. Srivatsan Pallavaram, Hong Yu, John Spooner, Pierre-François D’Haese, Tatsuki Koyama, Bobby Bodenheimer, Peter E. Konrad, Benoit M. Dawant, "Automated selection of anterior and posterior commissures based on a deformable atlas and its evaluation based on manual selections by neurosurgeons", Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging, Vol. 6509, pp: 65091C-1:9, 2007.
12. Pierre-François D’Haese, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Hong Yu, John Spooner, Peter E. Konrad, Benoit M. Dawant, "Internet portal for computer aided deep brain stimulation therapy: from target planning to programming", Movement Disorders - 10th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Oct' 28-Nov' 2, 2006, Kyoto, Japan.
13. Pierre-François D’Haese, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Hong Yu, John Spooner, Peter E. Konrad, Benoit M. Dawant, "Automated selection of programming parameters for Deep Brain Stimulators based on a probabilistic atlas", Movement Disorders - 10th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Oct' 28-Nov' 2, 2006, Kyoto, Japan.
14. Srivatsan Pallavaram, Pierre-François D’Haese, Bobby Bodenheimer, John Spooner, Hong Yu, Peter E. Konrad, Benoit M. Dawant, "Automated selection of anterior and posterior commissures based on a deformable atlas can remove variability in the current frame of reference used for stereotactic neurosurgical procedures", Poster at American Society of Sterotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ASSFN) Biennial meeting, Boston, MA, USA, June 1-4, 2006.
15. Pierre-François D’Haese, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Hong Yu, John Spooner, Peter E. Konrad, Benoit M. Dawant, "Deformable Physiological Atlas-Based Programming of Deep Brain Stimulators: A Feasibility Study", WBIR (Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration), 2006.
16. John Spooner, Hong Yu, Pierre-Francois D'Haese, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Benoit M. Dawant, Peter E. Konrad, "Fully automated deep brain stimulation target selection better than traditional methods", ASSFN (American Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery), 2006.
17. Pierre-Francois D'Haese, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Ken Niermann, John Spooner, Chris Kao, Peter E. Konrad, Benoit M. Dawant, "Electrophysiological atlas based fully automatic selection of DBS target points: a multiple atlases approach", MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention), Palm Springs, California, USA, Oct' 26-29, 2005.
18. Pierre-Francois D'Haese, Srivatsan Pallavaram, Chris Kao, Peter E. Konrad, Benoit M. Dawant, "Computer-aided placement of deep brain stimulators: from planning to intra-operative guidance", SPIE, Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, USA, Feb' 12-17, 2005.
19. S. Pallavaram, M. Carli, J. Berger, A. Neri, S.K. Mitra, "Spot identification in microarray images using Gauss-Laguerre wavelets", Proc. IEEE Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, May 26-28, 2004. (pdf)
20. M. Rice, R. Golledge, D. Jacobson, D. Jones, S. Pallavaram, “Axis Scalling and Symbolization Issues for Haptic Maps", the 100th AAG Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 14-19 March 2004 [abstract (pdf)].
21. M. Rice, R. Golledge, D. Jacobson, D. Jones, S. Pallavaram, “Evaluating Shapes Via a Non-Visual Computer Interface”, the 100th AAG Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 14-19 March 2004[abstract (pdf)].
22. M. Rice, D. Jacobson, R.G. Golledge, D. Jones, S. Pallavaram , "Object Size Discrimination and Non-visual Cartographic Symbolization", in Web Proceedings, American Congress of Surveying and Mapping 2003 Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Mar 30–Apr 02, 2003, http://www.acsm.net [full paper (pdf)]
23. D. Jacobson, M. Rice, R.G. Golledge, D. Jones, P. Hayward, S. Pallavaram, "Cartographic Symbolization Issues for Haptic and Auditory Map Interfaces", Association of American Geographers (AAG) 99th Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, March 5-8, 2003
24. Srivatsan PS, Anusha SR, “A novel technique for dynamically stopping iterations in turbo decoding”, National Level Symposium (APOGEE 02), Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India, 2002
25. Senthilnathan T, Srivatsan PS, Anusha SR, Bhaskaran A, Rajan RD, “Analysis of ambient air pollutants in Chennai during the year 2000”, Proc National Conf Pollution Prevn. & Control, Nagpur, India, 2002
    

Honors & National Awards

• Thomas M. Weser award, 2007 - selected as the outstanding International student of the year by the International Students and Scholars Services (ISSS) office and awarded the "Thomas M. Weser award 2007" at the Magnolia awards ceremony hosted by the office of Leadership Developments and Intercultural affairs on April 4th. More details can be found at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/leadership/magnolia3.html Presented with an engraved clock and $250 with name engraved on a plaque in the ISSS office.
• Toastmasters International Area 54, District 63, Table Topics (impromptu speech) contest 2007 winner.
• Competent Communicator (CC) award from Toastmasters International, 2006.
• University Graduate Fellowship (UGF), Vanderbilt University (2004-2008).
• Presidential Work-Study Research Scholarship, UCSB (2002-2003).
• Gold Medal for the Best Male All Rounder of the school, BSRKV, India (95-96).
• Rolling Shield for the Best All Rounder of the school, BSRKV, India (95-96).
• ‘President Scout Award’ (Rashtrapati Award) personally from the then President of India, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, New Delhi (1994).
• ‘Governor Scout Award’ (Rajya Puraskar), India (1993).

Affiliations, Social and community work & Extra Curricular Activities

• Fundraising: Raised over $1500 on the Vanderbilt campus for the Kumar and Mahadevan fund for the tragic deaths of Pravesh Kumar and Vijay Mahadevan, students of Texas A&M University, Kingsville, who unfortunately drowned in May 2007.
• Fundraising: Worked with FREE (Freeing, Rescuing, Educating and Empowering) formerly called "Free the children/Free the slaves", a Vanderbilt student organization to raise funds for SOUP (Society of Underprivileged People) India. SOUP is a non-governmental organization in Allahabad, India that works to rescue, give shelter and food and opportunities to children and women stuck in drug and human trafficking. We raised $4200 for SOUP of which I organized the effort to raise $3500 from Vanderbilt and the Ganesh temple in Nashville (Sriram Dixit and Anupama Balasubramanian provided great help in this effort). This fundraising was eventually covered by The Vanderbilt Hustler, the most popular newspaper on campus, in a story on Jan' 12, 2007.
• Served as an invited panelist for the workshop on "Teaching in the American classroom", organized by the Center for Teaching (CFT) in Vanderbilt University on Nov' 8, 2006.
• Vice-President (Public Relations), Toastmasters International - LifeWay chapter, Nashville, TN, 2006-2007.
• Webmaster, Toastmasters International - LifeWay chapter, Nashville, TN, 2006-2007.
• Vanderbilt International Volunteer (VIV), 2006-2007.
• Chairman, Vanderbilt Cricket Club (VCC), 2006-2007.
• Webmaster, Vanderbilt Cricket Club (VCC), 2006-2007.
• Founding President, Vanderbilt Cricket Club (VCC), President during 2005-2006.
• Webmaster of the Vanderbilt Cricket Club (VCC), 2005-2006.
• Community Service: Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity - Participated in the fourth Nashville Habitat Build of 2005 to build home for the needy.
• Certificate in Management Technology, India, '02.
• Leader of the ECE department Quality Circle, Velammal Engineering College, India, '00-'01.
• Organizing Secretary, National Level Technical Symposium ECE Dept., Velammal Engineering College, India, '00-'01.
• Member of editorial boards for college newsletter and college souvenir, '00-'01.

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DNA Sequence Analysis

• D. Anastassiou, “Genomic Signal Processing”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, pp 8-20, July 2001.
• P. Bernaola-Galvan, I. Grosse, P. Carpena, J.L. Oliver, R. Roman-Roland, H.E. Stanley, “Finding borders between coding and noncoding DNA regions by an entropic segmentation method”, Physical Review E, vol. 85(6), pp 1342-1345, 2000.
• Daniel Nicorici, John A. Berger, Jakko Astola, Sanjit K Mitra, “Finding borders between coding and noncoding DNA regions using recursive segmentation and statistics of stop codons”, Finnish Signal Processing Symposium (FINSIG'03), Tampere, Finland, pp. 231-235, May 19, 2003.
• Gene bank: http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/
• Bayesian network toolbox: http://www.ai.mit.edu/~murphyk/Software/BNT/bnt.html#features
  I.T. Jolliffe. Principal Component Analysis. Springer-Verlag, 1986.
• Qicheng Ma, Jason T. L. Wang and Cathy H. Wu ,"Application of Bayesian Neural Networks to Biological Data Mining: A Case Study in DNA Sequence Classification," Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Software
• Y. Wang, C-T Zhang and P. Dong. “Recognizing Shorter Coding Regions of Human Genes Based on the Statistics of Stop Codons”, Biopolymers, Vol. 63, 207-216, 2002
• M. Yan, Z-S. Lin and C-T. Zhang. “A new Fourier transform approach for protein coding measure based on the format of the Z curve”, Bioinformatics, Vol. 14, no. 8, 685-690, 1998
  C-T. Zhang, J. Wang. Nucleic Acids Res 2000, 28, 2804-2814
• Distribution of base pair repeats in coding and noncoding DNA sequences, N.V. Dakholyan et al, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 79, no. 25, Dec ’97
• Computing Linear Transforms of Symbolic Signals, Wang and Johnson
  

cDNA Microarray Image Processing

• Microarray image processing based on clustering and morphological analysis, Wu & Yan
• Quality control in Microarray image analysis, Kuklin et al
• Robust Microarray image analysis, Katzer et al
• Image metrics in the statistical analysis of DNA Microarray data, Brown et al
• A markov random field model of Microarray gridding. Katzer et al
• A novel method using edge detection for signal extraction from cDNA Microarray image analysis, Kim et al
• Fully automatic quantification of Microarray image data, Jain et al
• Dapple: Improved techniques for finding spots on DNA microarrays UW CSE Technical Report
• Microarray Image Processing based on clustering and morphological analysis, Wu & Yan
• Robust adaptive spot segmentation of DNA microarray images, Liew, yan & Yang
• An adaptive logical method for binarization of degraded document images, Yang & Yan
• Ratio based decisions and the quantitative analysis of cDNA microarray images, Chen et al
  

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Email

sri.pallavaram@vanderbilt.edu (SRI 'dot' PALLAVARAM @ VANDERBILT 'dot' EDU)