Min Qu and Soon Joon Yoon join the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory. Welcome!
On August 18, Srivalleesha Mallidi, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory, presented her PhD Qualifying proposal entitled: "Molecular Specific Photoacoustic Imaging."
On July 28 2008, Suhyun Park successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled: "Integrated System for Ultrasonic, Elasticity and Photoacoustic Imaging" at The University of Texas at Austin. The examination committee consisted of Dr. Stanislav Emelianov (UT-Austin), Dr. Mark Hamilton (UT-Austin), Dr. Jonathan Rubin (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), Dr. Salavat Aglyamov (UT-Austin), Mr. Guy Scott (Winprobe Inc.) and Dr. Thomas Milner (UT-Austin).
BME Department and Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory are moving in nice new building! The address of new building is 107 W. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78712

This month Kimberly Homan, a PhD. student in the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory, was selected as the recipient of the 2008-2009 University Continuing Fellowship. The award is made to a student who is currently enrolled in a graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin and who is recognized for outstanding accomplishments since entering Graduate School.
Seung Yun Nam, Jason Cook and Kimberly Homan join the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory. Welcome!
Jignesh Shah, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory, won first place at the "Interdisciplinary Perspectives: A Graduate Student Research Showcase" on April 18th 2008. Jignesh's talk was titled "Image guided photothermal cancer therapy." The presenters were graduate students from difference departments including Government, Sociology, Curriculum etc. and 10 papers were selected for oral presentation from the received abstracts including 2 panel discussions.
more »Min Qu has accepted an invitation to join our lab starting this fall (2008). Min - welcome aboard!
Srivalleesha Mallidi, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory, was awarded the "Innovation Grand Prize" for her research "Molecular Specific Photoacoustic Imaging using Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles" that is given to the most innovative research at the fourth annual Graduate and Industry Networking (GAIN) 2008 conference as determined by the Chair of Free Enterprise. She was selected from more than 100 graduate students participating in GAIN 2008.
On July 17 2007, Shriram Sethuraman successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled: “Combined Intravascular Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging” at The University of Texas at Austin. The examination committee consisted of Dr. Stanislav Emelianov (UT-Austin), Dr. Richard Smalling (UT-Medical School, Houston), Dr. Salavat Aglyamov (UT-Austin), Dr. Thomas Milner (UT-Austin) and Dr. Xiaojing Zhang (UT-Austin). Shriram will join Philips Research North America as a Senior Member Research Staff in the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapy Department in Fall 2007.
Suhyun Park, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory, has been selected as the recipient of the 2007-2008 Wendell Gordon Fellowship – one of the most competitive awards given by the Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Emelianov receives a grant to fight the chief cause of heart attacks with new image techniques more »
Shriram Sethuraman, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory, has been selected as the recipient of the 2006-2007 University Continuing Fellowship. The award is made to a student who is currently enrolled in a graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin and who is recognized for outstanding accomplishments since entering Graduate School.
Srivalleesha Mallidi, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory, has won the “Honorable Mention” award for her poster entitled “Functional and morphological ultrasonic biomicroscopy for tissue engineers” at the 2006 SPIE Medical Imaging conference held at San Diego, California.