Mysuru  :

Dr. B.S. Mahanand, Associate Professor, Department of Information Science and Engineering, JSS Science and Technology (JSS S&T) University, has received the Raman Fellowship from University Grants Commission, Government of India, to pursue post-doctoral research at the prestigious Harvard Univer- sity, USA. He left for Harvard University today.

His research at Harvard University focuses on identifying imaging biomarkers responsible for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. He will be developing advance procedures for tracking of Alzheimer’s as well as towards understanding of the mechanisms that cause the disease. Dr. Mahanand has researched on a unique amalgamated area of engineering and medicine; the detection of Alzheimer’s disease using machine learning approaches.

In his previous achievements, Dr. Mahanand was awarded with Visiting Research Fellowships at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (2007); Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2012) and Visiting Scientist at National Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, Bilkent University, Turkey (2015).

He is also conferred with Best Ph.D Thesis Award (2012-13) from Karnataka government’s Board for IT Education Standards. His visit to Harvard will help JSS S&T University in creating avenues for interdisciplinary and user-oriented research, development of joint research and faculty exchange programmes.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / July 30th, 2016