Welcome to Frontiers in Imaging, Spectroscopy and Theranostic (FIST) Lab

Interests

Our team works on developing novel systems for improved sensing, diagnosis, and therapeutic approaches, targeted towards biological and medical theranostics. FIST lab aims to achieve non-invasive investigation of physiological and molecular processes in tissues at unprecedented depth to resolution ratio. These systems will be developed to diagnose/understand life-threatening diseases like atherosclerosis, cancer and infectious diseases. The FIST lab will also focus on developing real-time computational methods in different scientific areas like non-destructive testing (NDT), and medical imaging.

Funding

IISc Startup Grant

Department of Biotechnology (DBT)

Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)

Shell Technology Center, Bengaluru

Infosys Foundation

Meggitt [CSR]

Facilities

Tunable Nanosecond Pulsed Laser; Laser Diodes

Transducer Arrays

BSL Cabinet, CO2 Incubator, Microscope, Centrifuges

ESD bench and associate accessories

Tissue based phantom preparation bench and consumables

Electronics- Function Generators, Oscilloscopes, Power Supplies, Amplifiers, DAQ cards, Pulser-Reciever

Computational Infrastructure [Two High-end DL workstations with two 42 GB Nvidia cards]

Who are we

Team

Jaya Prakash
(Principal Investigator)

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/jayaprakash/home

Tarun Garg

PhD Student [IMI]

[jointly with Dr, Vaanathi Sundaresan]

Isha
PhD Student

Aman Dubey
MTech[Res]

Anandhu A. S.
PhD Student

Akshay S Nair

PhD Student

Harigovind J. R.
PhD Student

Lab Alumni

PhD Students
Dr. Swathi Padmanabhan PhD -> Research Associate, UCL, London

MTech/MTech[Research]
Shashikant Giri MTech (Gold Medal) -> Chevron Corporation
Sumanth S. P. MTech -> Qualcomm
Poojari Naga Pradeep; MTech[Res] -> ISRO
Yash Dravid Sachin; MTech[Res] -> Reliance Corporation
Arumugaraj M;MTech[Research]
Kajal Chowdhary; MTech

Interns and Project Staff:
Mr. Hemanth S. N. [Dayanand Sagar]
Ms. Yukti Diwedhi [Thapar Institute]
Mr. Nirmal S [BITS Goa]
Mr. Puneeth Gangarapu [MITS, Madanpalle
Ms. Sharon Shajan [IIST-TVM]
Mr. Jawad T. P. [CUSAT]
Mr. Tejas [MSRIT]
Mr. Rishaab Pavan [MSRIT]
Mr. Rakshit P [NITK]
Mr. Sai Koudinya [KIMS, Bengaluru]
Mrs. Chaitra B. S. [Lab Manager]

How it works

Testimonials

Publications

All Publications can be found: https://sites.google.com/view/jayaprakash/publications

Selected Publications

Swathi Padmanabhan, and Jaya Prakash, "Deep tissue sensing of chiral molecules using polarization enhanced photoacoustics," Science Advances 11(12), eado8012 (2025).
Swathi Padmanabhan, Sarikonda Aryan Shashank, Rajesh Srinivasan, and Jaya Prakash, "Optoacousto-fluidics Based Optical Rotation Measure for Blood Glucose Sensing," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 72(11), 3312-3323 (2025).
Isha Munjal, and Jaya Prakash, "Deep-Learning based deconvolution for correcting spatial impulse response of transducer in optoacoustic tomography," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements 73, 4506912 (2024).
Hemanth S. Nakshatri, and Jaya Prakash, "Complex valued long short term memory based architecture for frequency domain photoacoustic imaging," IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging 9, 551-564 (2023)
Madhavi Tripathi*, Swathi Padmanabhan*, Jaya Prakash, and Ashok Raichur, "Seed mediated galvanic synthesis of ultrasmall CuS-Au nanohybrids for photo-theranostic applications," ACS Applied Nano Materials 6, 14861-14875 (2023).
Jaya Prakash*, Mir Mehdi Seyedebrahimi*, Ara Ghazaryan*, Jaber Malekzadeh-Najafabadi, Vipul Gujrati, and Vasilis Ntziachristos, “Short wavelength optoacoustic spectroscopy based on water muting,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(8), 4007-4014 (2020).
Atheeth S, Chandrashekar L N, Isha Munjal, Swathi Padmanabhan, Jaya Prakash, and Manish Arora, "Microfabrication of a 16 MHz 1D-pMUT-Array for photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging," Ultrasonic Imaging 2025 (in press).

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Contact Us

jayap@iisc.ac.in

Tel: 080-2293 2274

A106, Instrumentation and Applied Physics, IISc,

Bengaluru, India - 560 012