Siddharth Khullar

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Student Information

Program of Study
Ph.D, Imaging Science
Graduation Year
2013
Research Experience
* Current Position: Graduate Research Associate, MIND Research Network for Neurodiagnostic Discovery, Albuquerque, NM, USA Develop pre-processing algorithms and new analysis methods for functional MRI data. * Previous Position: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology Thesis: Automatic Tools for Print Mottle Evaluation. (Worked in collaboration with Color Imaging Labs, Hewlett Packard Co., Boise, ID).
Previous Degree
MS, Electrical Engineering
M.S. Thesis Advisor
Eli Saber
Ph.D. Dissertation Advisor
Stefi Baum

Research Details

Research Interests
Functional Brain Imaging (fMRI) Analysis, Imaging algorithms for identifying brain diseases (Schizophrenia, Autism, BPD),Wavelets based methods for fractal analysis of fMRI time series, Multi-modal Image Fusion for medical imaging, Print Quality Assessment and Image Segmentation.

Research Category

Optics

Personal Information

Contact Information
sxk4792@rit.edu
Title and Degrees
MS, Electrical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology. B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, Indraprastha University, India
Personal Web Page
https://sites.google.com/site/siddharthkhullar/

Scholarships/Awards

  • - RIT 2013 Graduate Student Delegate for Academic Convocation (2013)
  • - RIT COS - 2013 College of Science Graduate Student Delegate (2013)
  • - Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMit) (2013)
  • RIT - RIT 2013 Graduate Student Delegate for Academic Convocation (2013)
  • RIT COS - 2013 College of Science Graduate Student Delegate (2013)
  • Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIt) - First Prize: CIMIT Student Prize for Primary Healthcare (2012)
  • Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIt) - CIMIT Primary Health Care Competition Finalist (2012)
  • Emtech india - Featured Speaker Emtech India - Young Innovator (2012)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Judges Choice Award (2012)
  • - John Wiley Jones Scholarship for International Students (2009)

Publications

THESES

    Khullar, S., A Better Looking Brain: Image Preprocessing Approaches for f-MRI Data, Ph.D. Dissertation, Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Science, Center for Imaging Science, Rochester, New York, United States, April (2013)


REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

    Khullar; Michael, A.M.; Cahill, N.D.; Kiehl, K...; Pearlson, G.; Baum, S.A.; Calhoun, V.D., ICA-fNORM: spatial normalization of fMRI data using intrinsic group-ICA networks, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 5, 00093 (2011)

    Khullar; Michael, A.M.; Correa; Adali; Baum, S.A.; Calhoun, V.D., Wavelet-based fMRI analysis: 3-D denoising, signal separation and validation metrics, Neuroimage, 54, 4 (2011)


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

    Khullar; Michael, A.M.; Cahill, N.D.; Baum, S.A.; Calhoun, V.D., Functional Normalization through ICA (ICA-fNORM) with Intrinsic networks as Functional Templates, Organization for Human brain Mapping, 17th Annual meeting, Quebec, Quebec, Canada, June (2011)

    Khullar; Michael, A.M.; Correa; Adali; Baum, S.A.; Calhoun, V.D., Wavelet-based denoising and independent component analysis for improving multi-group inference in fMRI data, IEEE, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Chicago, Illinois, United States, March (2011)

    Khullar; Michael, A.M.; Correa; Adali; Cahill, N.D.; Baum, S.A.; Calhoun, V.D., A New Metric to Measure Shape Differences in fMRI Activity, Proceeding of SPIE, SPIE Medical Imaging, Medical Imaging 2011: Image Processing, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States, February (2011)

    Khullar; Michael, A.M.; Correa; Adali; Baum, S.A.; Calhoun, V.D., Improved 3-D wavelet-based denoising of fMRI data, SPIE, Medical imaging, Orlando, Florida, United States, February (2011)