Dr Himanshu Shekhar

Dr. Himanshu Shekhar is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India, where he co-leads the Medical Ultrasound Engineering (MUSE) Laboratory. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, India (2008), and a Master’s (2010) and Ph.D. (2014) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, U.S.A. Dr. Shekhar trained as a postdoctoral fellow (2014 – 2019) at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, U.S.A. His research is focused on ultrasound-mediated therapy, molecular imaging, and sensing. His research has been recognized with the F. V. Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Med-into-Grad Fellowship, best paper awards from the Acoustical Society of America, the Har Govind Korana Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, and the Star Ambassador Lectureship Award from the IEEE UFFC Society. Dr. Shekhar currently serves on the Technical Committee on Biomedical Acoustics of the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Technical Committee (Group 1), and Chairs the Professional Networking and Mentoring Committee of the IEEE UFFC Society.