May 2022: The group welcomes Dr. Santosh Balakrishnan with hike at Robert Treman State Park

Santosh earned his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His doctoral research focused on developing and validating an endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) system for the assessment of large airway disorders. Subsequently, he was a post-doctoral research scholar at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. During his stint at MGH, he was involved in the development of a Polarization-Sensitive, intravascular, OCT system. Prior to pursuing his PhD, Santosh worked for several years with some of the largest health care companies in different roles related to X-ray imaging. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India.