News
July 2026
Subhalakshmy A B and Mausiki Kala joined as PhD students in LISTEN Lab. Welcome!
July 2026
Sandeep visited Monash University and delivered a talk on “Scalable Optoacoustic Tomography: From High-Speed Volumetric Imaging to Accessible Low-Cost Systems.” Thank you Prof. Karen Alt and Prof. Levin Kuhlmann for hosting. Thank you IITB-Monash Research Academy for supporting this visit.
July 2026
Uttirno Nath had converted to PhD student in LISTEN Lab. Congrats!
July 2026
Sunit Kumar Sao, Karishma Meena and Nishtha Singh joined LISTEN Lab for their master’s thesis projects. Welcome!
June 2026
Govind Sajeev and Uttirno Nath had successfully completed their MTech thesis in LISTEN Lab. Congrats!
May 2026
Published! Book chapter on optical and optoacoustic imaging is out in Springer Nature.
May 2026
Published! Review article on multimodal optoacoustic microscopy is out in Biomedical Engineering Letters.
May 2026
Prof. Himanshu Shekhar from IIT Gandhinagar visited the LISTEN Lab.
May 2026
Swapnil Anand had successfully completed his MSc thesis in LISTEN Lab. Congrats!
April 2026
Sandeep attended the Optica Biophotonics Congress in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA and gave an oral presentation.
April 2026
Funding approved (INR 39 lakhs) from ANRF’s Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant (PMECRG) to develop an optoacoustic tomography imaging system.
April 2026
Dr. Arjun V S Kidavu joined as a Post-Doctoral Fellow after his Ph.D. at University of Hyderabad. Welcome on board!
March 2026
Published! Our work on denoising LED-based optoacoustic tomography images using deep learning is out in Journal of Biomedical Optics.
January 2026
Nilanjan joined as an IRCC intern (6 months) in the LISTEN Lab.
December 2025
Prof. Dr. Jerene Mathews from AIIMS Bhopal visited the LISTEN lab.
October 2025
Sandeep visited AIIMS Bhopal and delivered a talk, “Optoacoustic Imaging: Listening to Light.” Thanks to Dr. Saikat Das and Dr. Jerene Mathews for hosting, and IDEAS@DSSE, IITB for travel support.
September 2025
Prof. Naren Naik from IIT Kanpur visited the LISTEN Lab.
September 2025
The Medical Engineering (MedEngg) group had successfully conducted a workshop on Systems-level Medical Engineering and Technology; Sandeep presented current and future research activities in LISTEN Lab.
August 2025
Dr. Shataneek Banerjee joined as a Post-Doctoral Fellow after his Ph.D. at IIT Kharagpur. Welcome!
July 2025
Govind Sajeev, Uttirno Nath and Swapnil Anand joined for their final-year master’s thesis projects. Welcome!
July 2025
Our optoacoustic scanner idea was promoted to Level 2 of the IDEAS Program at DSSE, IIT Bombay, with an additional INR 2.5 lakhs to build the prototype.
May–June 2025
Four Bachelor students from BITS Pilani Goa, MIT Manipal, NIT Warangal and CUSAT joined for summer internships.
April 2025
Prof. Dr. Saikat Das from AIIMS Bhopal visited the LISTEN Lab.
March 2025
Our optoacoustic scanner idea was shortlisted for IDEAS Level 1 Cohort 15 at DSSE, IIT Bombay, with INR 2.5 lakhs to build the prototype.
February 2025
Dr. Abhishek Ranjan joined as a Post-Doctoral Fellow after his Ph.D. at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Welcome!
January 2025
Sandeep attended SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco, CA, USA and presented a poster.
January 2025
Anisha joined as an IRCC intern (6 months) in the LISTEN Lab.
December 2024
Prof. Vasilis Ntziachristos from TUM, Munich, Germany visited the LISTEN Lab.
September 2024
Sandeep attended an online workshop on patent filing and prior-art search, IPTel, IISc Bengaluru.
July 2024
Suhail Bashir Shah joined as a PhD student. Welcome!
May 2024
The Light and Sound Theragnostics Engineering (LISTEN) Lab was formed in the Dept. of BSBE, IIT Bombay.
May 2024
Dr. Sandeep Kumar Kalva joined as Assistant Professor (Grade-1) in BSBE, IIT Bombay.