Sairam Geethanath
Associate Professor
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolSairam Geethanath is an MRI-focused biomedical engineer and assistant professor with eight years of experience bridging academic research, clinical translation, and startup leadership. Based in Baltimore, he co-founded MRAccess to broaden MRI accessibility while holding faculty roles at Johns Hopkins and previously at Mt. Sinai and Columbia, reflecting a track record of moving imaging innovations toward real-world impact. His background spans imaging physics, software engineering, and lab leadership dating back to Siemens internships and doctoral work in a joint UT Arlington/UT Southwestern program. An open-source enthusiast, he brings practical coding chops to MRI tool development alongside deep domain expertise in medical imaging systems. Notably, his career blends international academic leadership (including roles in India and the UK) with entrepreneurial drive to democratize MRI technology.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.E. Instrumentation, B.E. Instrumentation at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityPh.D. Biomedical Engineering (Joint program), Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering (Joint program) at The University of Texas at Arlington & The University of Texas at Southwestern Medical CenterM.S. Electrical Engineering., M.S. Electrical Engineering. at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (31)
python10
mri10
simulator9
simulation9
pulse9
open-access8
journal8
console8
matlab7
creative-commons7
bayesian6
academia6
convolutional-neural-networks6
uncertainty5
medical-imaging5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
imr-framework/sar4seq
Jun 2019 - Oct 2021
To compute Specific Absorption Rate for MRI pulse sequences
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 4 months
pulse-sequencesmripulsecomputeabsorption
delta-diy-mri/delta-diy-mri.github.io
Dec 2024 - Jul 2026
Website for the project
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
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