Sairam Geethanath
Assistant Professor at The Johns Hopkins University
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
18 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 (26)
mri10
simulator9
simulation9
python9
journal8
console8
pulse7
open-access7
creative-commons6
academia6
matlab6
hybrid5
uncertainty5
bayesian4
inverse-problems4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
imr-framework/sar4seq
Jun 2019 - Oct 2021
To compute Specific Absorption Rate for MRI pulse sequences
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 4 months
pulse-sequencesmripulsecomputeabsorption
imr-framework/SEASR
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
Replacing phase encoding gradients with phased arrays
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 66 pushes in 9 months
gradientsarraysencodingphasephase-encoding
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