Satish E. Viswanath, PhD, holds a joint appointment as an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He is also a research scientist and biomedical engineer at the Cleveland VA Medical Center. Previously, he served as co-director of the Center for AI Enabling Discovery in Disease Biology and was an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University.
Education
Dr. Viswanath earned his doctorate in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University. He holds a Master of Science in medical imaging from the University of Aberdeen.
Titles & Roles
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
Research
Dr. Viswanath's primary research focuses on developing new artificial intelligence, radiomics and machine learning methods applied to computer-aided diagnosis and detection, disease characterization and quantitative evaluation of treatment response across adult and pediatric conditions. His research in colorectal cancers and digestive diseases has been continuously funded since 2016 by the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs and the National Institutes of Health, including the National Cancer Institute, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institute of Nursing Research and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
Publications
He has authored nearly 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, more than 100 conference papers and abstracts, one book chapter and has delivered more than 60 invited talks and panel discussions in the United States and abroad. He holds seven issued patents in medical image analysis, computer-aided diagnosis and pattern recognition. He serves as associate editor for BMC Cancer, BMC Medical Imaging and Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine, and as guest associate editor for Medical Physics.
Dr. Viswanath was named one of Crain’s Business Cleveland “40 under 40” in 2020 and a Crain’s Cleveland Notable Immigrant Leader in 2022. He was also elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. In 2023, he was selected for a Fulbright Specialist Award, recognized as a Notable in Education Leadership by Crain’s Cleveland and honored with the SIIM Imaging Informatics Innovator Award.
