{"id":32,"date":"2026-03-31T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~sandeepkalva\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:01:22","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bio.iitb.ac.in\/~sandeepkalva\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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July 2026<\/div>
Subhalakshmy A B and Mausiki Kala joined as PhD students in LISTEN Lab. Welcome!<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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July 2026<\/div>
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.\u00a0<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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July 2026<\/div>
Uttirno Nath had converted to PhD student in LISTEN Lab. Congrats!<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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July 2026<\/div>
Sunit Kumar Sao, Karishma Meena and Nishtha Singh joined LISTEN Lab for their master’s thesis projects. Welcome!<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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June 2026<\/div>
Govind Sajeev and Uttirno Nath had successfully completed their MTech thesis in LISTEN Lab. Congrats!<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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May 2026<\/div>
Published!<\/strong> Book chapter on optical and optoacoustic imaging is out in Springer Nature<\/em>.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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May 2026<\/div>
Published!<\/strong> Review article on multimodal optoacoustic microscopy is out in Biomedical Engineering Letters<\/em>.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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May 2026<\/div>
Prof. Himanshu Shekhar<\/strong> from IIT Gandhinagar visited the LISTEN Lab.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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May 2026<\/div>
Swapnil Anand had successfully completed his MSc thesis in LISTEN Lab. Congrats!<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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April 2026<\/div>
Sandeep attended the Optica Biophotonics Congress in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA and gave an oral presentation.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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April 2026<\/div>
Funding approved (INR 39 lakhs)<\/strong> from ANRF\u2019s Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant (PMECRG) to develop an optoacoustic tomography imaging system.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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April 2026<\/div>
Dr. Arjun V S Kidavu joined as a Post-Doctoral Fellow after his Ph.D. at University of Hyderabad. Welcome on board!<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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March 2026<\/div>
Published!<\/strong> Our work on denoising LED-based optoacoustic tomography images using deep learning is out in Journal of Biomedical Optics<\/em>.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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January 2026<\/div>
Nilanjan joined as an IRCC intern (6 months) in the LISTEN Lab.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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December 2025<\/div>
Prof. Dr. Jerene Mathews<\/b>\u00a0from AIIMS Bhopal visited the LISTEN lab.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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October 2025<\/div>
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.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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September 2025<\/div>
Prof. Naren Naik<\/strong> from IIT Kanpur visited the LISTEN Lab.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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September 2025<\/div>
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.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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August 2025<\/div>
Dr. Shataneek Banerjee joined as a Post-Doctoral Fellow after his Ph.D. at IIT Kharagpur. Welcome!<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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July 2025<\/div>
Govind Sajeev, Uttirno Nath and Swapnil Anand joined for their final-year master\u2019s thesis projects. Welcome!<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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July 2025<\/div>
Our optoacoustic scanner idea was promoted to Level 2 of the IDEAS Program at DSSE, IIT Bombay, with an additional INR 2.5 lakhs<\/strong> to build the prototype.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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May\u2013June 2025<\/div>
Four Bachelor students from BITS Pilani Goa, MIT Manipal, NIT Warangal and CUSAT joined for summer internships.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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April 2025<\/div>
Prof. Dr. Saikat Das<\/strong> from AIIMS Bhopal visited the LISTEN Lab.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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March 2025<\/div>
Our optoacoustic scanner idea was shortlisted for IDEAS Level 1 Cohort 15 at DSSE, IIT Bombay, with INR 2.5 lakhs<\/strong> to build the prototype.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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February 2025<\/div>
Dr. Abhishek Ranjan joined as a Post-Doctoral Fellow after his Ph.D. at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Welcome!<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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January 2025<\/div>
Sandeep attended SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco, CA, USA and presented a poster.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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January 2025<\/div>
Anisha joined as an IRCC intern (6 months) in the LISTEN Lab.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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December 2024<\/div>
Prof. Vasilis Ntziachristos<\/strong> from TUM, Munich, Germany visited the LISTEN Lab.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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September 2024<\/div>
Sandeep attended an online workshop on patent filing and prior-art search, IPTel, IISc Bengaluru.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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July 2024<\/div>
Suhail Bashir Shah joined as a PhD student. Welcome!<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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May 2024<\/div>
The Light and Sound Theragnostics Engineering (LISTEN) Lab was formed in the Dept. of BSBE, IIT Bombay.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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May 2024<\/div>
Dr. Sandeep Kumar Kalva joined as Assistant Professor (Grade-1) in BSBE, IIT Bombay.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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