Rate My Professor Sarang Joshi

Sarang Joshi is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah and a professor at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. He holds a D.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. Joshi joined the University of Utah in 2006 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Earlier roles include Director of Technology Development at IntellX, a medical imaging startup acquired by Medtronic, and founding partner of Morphormics, Inc., acquired by Accuray. In 2005, he completed a sabbatical as a visiting scientist in the Department of Medical Physics at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany, developing four-dimensional radiation therapy approaches for prostate and lung cancer treatment.

Joshi's research centers on Computational Anatomy, focusing on mathematical and computational tools for analyzing anatomical variability to enhance medical diagnosis, treatment, and disease understanding, including image registration and segmentation. He holds numerous patents in these areas. Key publications include "On geodesic completeness for Riemannian metrics on smooth probability densities" (Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 2017), "Hierarchical geodesic models in diffeomorphisms" (International Journal of Computer Vision, 2016), "Diffeomorphic density matching by optimal information transport" (SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2015), "Intrinsic polynomials for regression on Riemannian manifolds" (Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 2014), and "Sparse adaptive parameterization of variability in image ensembles" (International Journal of Computer Vision, 2013). His contributions have earned the 2007 ICCV David Marr Best Paper Award, Signal Processing 2010 Most Cited Paper Award, MICCAI 2010 Best of the Journal Issue Award, and induction into the AIMBE College of Fellows. With 18,123 citations, an h-index of 65, and i10-index of 153, Joshi's work profoundly impacts computational medical imaging.