Vanitha Sankaranarayanan
Education & Training
- Certification - Clinical Data Management and Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley, April 2007
- Masters in Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2004
- Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, June 1999
Computer Skills
- Programming Languages: C, C++, MATLAB, PHP, SQL, HTML, XML, Java and Java Servlets, SAS
- Databases: MySQL, Oracle 8, SQL Server
- Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows NT 4, Sun Solaris, Linux
- Application Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook), Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Image Composer, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Oracle iStore, Microsoft Visual Source Safe
Experience
- Staff Research Associate II in the Department of Radiology at UCSF, San Francisco, CA (Mar 2006 - July 2006)
- Studied the effects of Signal to Noise Ratio on bone parameters which is going to be published as a technical review article
- Analyzed MRI images of the bone to determine bone fraction for Pharmaceutical Studies for MERCK and NOVARTIS
- Analysis include segmentation of the bone, calculation of Signal to Noise Ratio in the images, quality checks in the images etc.
- Performed data quality checks on the results of MRI Analysis
- Programmer Analyst in the Department of Neurobiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (May 2004 - Oct 2005)
- Implemented an image analysis algorithm to detect dendritic spines in in-vivo images taken from a 2-Photon Microscope
- Developed an easier way for semi-automatic detection and manual selection of spines that reduced the time it took to analyze the images from 7 days to less than half a day
- Developed a user friendly GUI for detecting and selecting spines
- Created a GUI and assisted in implementation for intrinsic signal optical imaging
- Created a web-based animal (mouse) inventory management system that would display the details about the available mice, update/delete the existing data and add new data into the database
- Imaged the mouse brain sections using the custom made 2-photon microscope and fluorescent microscope to generate data for neuronal study
- Performed DiI, Golgi staining and immuno histochemistry experiments for neuronal study
- Undergone EH&S (Environmental Health and Safety) bio-safety training
- Assisted in overall management of the lab
- Assistant Systems Engineer at Tata Consulting Services, India (Aug 1999 - June 2001)
- Designed a system to assess the commercial viability of a Contract for KLM Cargo, The Netherlands
- Developed an Integrated Retail System and an online store for Planet M, a music shop of Bennette, Coleman and Co., India
- Developed a prototype model for an Internet Trading System for DSP Merrill Lynch, India
- Trained fresh recruits on the concepts of Software Development Process
Project
- Fractal Based Image Compression at Fractal Based Image Compression Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India (May 1999)
- Incorporated the Fractal Technology for Image Compression
- Achieved Compression ratios as high as 80%
- Achieved very less distortion of reconstruction images
Awards and Achievements
- Secured first position in the school in High School Graduation Examination conducted by the state government
- Secured first position in the district in Secondary School Graduation Examination
- Graduated as one of the top 5 students in a class of 65 in Bachelors Degree Program
- Secured first position in Human Physiology and Anatomy Course and secured third position in Introduction to Biological Imaging Course at UCLA
