Srivalleesha Mallidi

Srivalleesha Mallidi received her B.E. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Andhra University in India in 2003. She obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006 and 2009 respectively under Dr. Stanislav Emelianov's mentorship. Dr. Mallidi master’s thesis involved custom designing ultrasound based multi-modality imaging systems while her doctoral work explored the utility of surface plasmon resonance properties of spherical gold nanoparticles for early detection of cancer and probing nano-molecular interactions. Her graduate work is published in journals such as Nanoletters and Optics Express. Her work on Molecular specific photoacoustic imaging is highly cited. After graduation, she joined Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital with a goal to translate the imaging techniques to clinic, and is currently a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Dr. Tayyaba Hasan. Her research interests are in the fields of ultrasound imaging, photoacoustic imaging, image-guided therapeutics, photodynamic therapy and clinically translatable combination treatments.

EDUCATION

• University of Texas at Austin December 2009 Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering
• University of Texas at Austin May 2006 M. S. Biomedical Engineering
• Andhra University May 2003 B. E. Electronics and Communications Engineering

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital 2010 - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA NRSA F32 Postdoctoral Fellow, Mentor: Dr. Tayyaba Hasan Project: Image-guided design and monitoring of cancer therapeutics

Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory
2003 - 2009 Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Research Assistant, Mentor: Dr. Stanislav Emelianov Project: Molecular specific photoacoustic imaging with gold nanoparticles

Department of Biomedical Engineering
2004 - 2006 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Teaching Assistant Courses: Introduction to Computing Systems (BME 303) Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing Laboratory (BME 221)

AWARDS

2015 * Young Investigator Award, Fifth Frontiers in Biomedical Imaging Science Symposium, Nashville, TN

2014 * Biomedical Engineering Innovation and Career Development Travel Award, BMES Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX * People’s Choice Best Poster Award, MGH-University of Tokyo Frontiers in Bioengineering Symposium, Boston, MA * Poster of Distinction Award First Prize, American Society of Photobiology Meeting, San Diego, CA * Urbach Memorial Travel Award, American Society of Photobiology Meeting, San Diego, CA * Best Mentor Award, Bio-optics Summer School, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Boston MA

2012 Urbach Memorial Travel Award, American Society of Photobiology Meeting, Montreal, Canada

2009 * New Investigator Award, Central Texas Clinical Research Forum, Austin, TX * Winner, Poster Competition, Nano Optics Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX * Winner, Best presentation, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Portfolio University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

2008 * Innovation Grand Prize, Graduate And Industry Networking Conference, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

2006 * Honorable Mention Poster Award, SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium, San Diego, CA

2003 * Second prize for Best Technical Poster Presentation All India Technical Symposium-INTERFACE 2K2, Visakhapatnam, India