Contact
rshirad@iu.edu
IT 493
Education
- Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (2014)
- B. Tech Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee ( 2009)
Biography
A health care informatics and data scientist, Rakesh Shiradkar, Ph.D., is engaged in developing novel artificial intelligence-assisted technologies with multi-modal medical data (imaging, genomics, electronic health records) and translational approaches to impact health care management.
He was an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, and completed postdoctoral research training at Case Western Reserve University, where he was a research assistant professor.
Shiradkar has received a $50,000 Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research Pilot Grant that runs through 2024, and is the principal investigator for the research project “Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Radio-Pathomic nomogram to prognosticate treatment outcomes in prostate cancer patients following radical prostatectomy.”
Completed grant projects include a Department of Defense $542,293 grant where he was PI for the project “Noninvasive Risk Stratification of Prostate Cancer Patients Using Radiomic Features Derived from Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) and MRI.”
Research Interests
- Computer vision, image processing, machine learning, deep learning, 3D reconstructions
- Precision medicine, medical imaging, radiology, immunology, medical image computing, computer aided diagnosis, radiation oncology, digital pathology
- Translation and commercialization of computer aided diagnostics and AI technologies in health care and cancer management in urology
Courses
INFO-I 501 Introduction to Informatics