Raju, B.I.

Balasundar I. Raju (Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Madras, Chennai, India, in 1994 and the M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and in electrical engineering and computer science and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. In 2003, he joined Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA, as a Senior Scientist, where he has lead research efforts in the area of Doppler ultrasound, high-intensity-focused ultrasound, and ultrasound-mediated drug and gene delivery. He is currently a Principal Scientist with Philips Research North America, Cambridge, MA, USA, responsible for directing activities in point-of-care ultrasound including technology development, collaborating with academic and clinical institutions, developing intellectual property, and overall project management involving multisite research teams, where he is also a Group Leader of the Ultrasound Applications Group, focused on expanding the use of medical ultrasound to new users and uses with a focus on cardiac, lung, vascular, and transcranial ultrasound applications. His research interests include signal and image processing and machine learning applied to healthcare and medical ultrasound.