Mini Das
Indian-American image processing researcher
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Mini Das is an Indian and American interdisciplinary applied physicist and engineer specializing in image processing, with applications in biology, medicine, and materials science. She is a Moores Professor at the University of Houston, with appointments in the departments of physics, biomedical engineering, and electrical and computer engineering.[1]
Education and career
Das has a 1998 master's degree in optoelectronics and lasers from the Cochin University of Science and Technology in India. She completed a Ph.D. in 2003 at IIT Delhi, with a dissertation on inverse scattering transforms that also involved work as a visiting researcher at Bell Labs.[2]
She became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Connecticut, and then beginning in at the UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. She obtained a regular-rank assistant professorship in radiology at UMass in 2010, before moving to the University of Houston as an assistant professor in 2011.[2]