Anastasios Maurudis
AM@ENGR.UCONN.EDU
Biomedical
Optical & Ultrasonic Imaging Group
1-860-486-1818
(voice)
Member of the University of
Connecticut Optical
and Ultrasonic Biomedical Imaging Group
as a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical
Engineering under the direction of Dr. Quing Zhu
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT:
S.P.I.E.
= International Society for Optical Engineering
I.E.E.E
= THE
Electrical Engineering Professional Society
Eta Kappa Nu
= National
Electrical Engineering Honor Society
Tau Beta Pi
= National
Engineering Honor Society
Phi Kappa Phi = National Academic Honor Society
A.I.U.M. =
American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
B.M.E.S. = Biomedical Engineering Society
A.A.A.S. =
American Association for the Advancement of
Science
UCONN
SPIE = University
of Connecticut SPIE Student Branch
President
(2007-8) & (2006-7)
Graduate Student Senate Vice-President (2007-8), Senator (2006-7)
University Senator (2007-8) & (2006-7)
Northeast Science Bowl
Moderator/Volunteer:
part of the
event and academic competition
among teams of high school and middle-school students.
Connecticut
Invention Convention Judge/Volunteer
The convention is the
forum for
the art of inventing.
Proud member of USA Triathlon
and Red Sox Nation
MY RACE INFO LINK: AM’s RACING HISTORY
Season Ticket
Holder to UCONN Men’s Basketball, UCONN Women’s Basketball and UCONN FOOTBALL
LONG LIVE HUSKYMANIA
Research:
My present
research interest is in 3-D ultrasonic imaging and photo-acoustic tomography
(PAT) as applied to
the
early detection of breast cancer tumors.
As such, I am exploring all the fun science one needs to understand
ultrasonic
imaging and PAT. The areas of
exploration include ultrasonic wave propagation in biological tissue,
acoustic
transducer design, 3-D elastography, ultrasonic signal processing algorithms,
optimal adaptive
beamforming
and photo-acoustic tomography. At
present, I am working on a 3-D ultrasonic imaging system
with
a 1.75D array, consisting of 1,280 elements and a PAT system consisting of 512
elements. Our goal is to
obtain
images of high quality at real-time or “near” real-time rates. My industrial experience and previous
education
in digital signal processing and digital communication systems will aid me in
accomplishing
my
research goals.
Scholarships/Academic Awards
2006-present UCONN BME
Graduate Teaching Assistant
2006-07
2003-present N.I.H.
Sponsored Graduate Research Assistant
2006 SPIE Student Officer Travel Grantee
-attended
2006 SPIE student leadership workshop,
2006
2005-06
2004-05 Big Y Scholarship Recipient
2004-05 A.H.E.P.A.
Scholarship Recipient
2003-04
Previous
Education:
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY,
Master of Science in
Concentration
in Digital Signal Processing and Digital Communications
Bachelor of Science in
Magna
Cum Laude
Patents:
“Method and apparatus for accurately modeling digital signal
processors
Previous Industry
Experience:
My
seven years of industry experience has given me exposure to a wide variety of
DSP applications.
I have
worked at companies involved with digital communications, computer telephony,
radio/source location,
speech
coding, and DSP software tool development. Most projects involved the
development
and
implementation of complex DSP algorithms. These algorithms were required to
operate in real-time
in a
fixed-point DSP
Publications
"A Curved
Array Photoacoustic Tomography System for Small Animal Imaging,"
A. Aguirre, J. Gamelin, A. Maurudis, F.
Huang, D. Castillo, P. Guo, L.V. Wang, Q. Zhu
Proceedings of SPIE Volume:
6437 Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging
and Sensing 2007:
The Eighth Conference on Biomedical
Thermoacoustics, Optoacoustics, and Acousto-optics
"Experimental
Investigation of Target and Transducer Effects on Quantitative Image
Reconstruction
in Photoacoustic Tomography," J. Gamelin, A. Aguirre, F.
Huang, A. Maurudis,
D. Castillo, L.V. Wang, Q. Zhu, Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 6437 Photons Plus Ultrasound:
Imaging
and Sensing 2007: The Eighth Conference on Biomedical Thermoacoustics,
Optoacoustics, and Acousto-optics
“A Novel Electronic Architecture used to
Support Biomedical Photo-acoustic Imaging,” A. Maurudis,
F. Huang, D. Castillo, P. Guo, S. Yan and
Q. Zhu, Proc. 2006 IEEE International Symposium on
Circuits and Systems (ISCAS
2006),
"A Photoacoustic Imaging System
Employing a Curved-phased Ultrasonic Array and Parallel
Electronics", A. Maurudis, F. Huang,
P. Guo,
Proceedings of SPIE Volume:
6086 Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging
and Sensing 2006:
The Seventh Conference on Biomedical
Thermoacoustics, Optoacoustics, and Acousto-optics
“An FPGA-Based Digital Delay System to
Drive Ultrasonic Array Transducers”,
S. Yan, P. Guo, A. Maurudis and Q. Zhu, BMES Annual Fall Meeting,
“Efficient Synchronization of a Downsampler
and an Upsampler at Arbitrary Rates”,
A. Maurudis and M. Erickson Company Patent
Award/ US Patent Pending,
Voyan
Technology,
“An Efficient Vector-Space Approach for Accurately Modeling
Fixed-Point Digital Signal
Processors”, A. Maurudis, 1996 IEEE Region Ten Conference: Digital Signal Processing
Applications,
“FACTTM:
A C++ Environment for Accurately Modeling Fixed-Point Digital Signal
Processors”,
A.
Maurudis, Intelligent Methods for Signal Processing and Communications,
Universidad
de Vigo, Baiona (
INVITED TALKS
"DESIGN OF A PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING
SYSTEM", Department of Electrical Engineering,
Northeastern University,
"IMPLEMENTATION
OF A PHOTO-ACOUSTIC IMAGING SYSTEM",
Department
of Chemistry,
"PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING", Biomedical Engineering
Dept.,
University of Connecitcut, Storrs, CT, February 23, 2006.