Jagdish Ramakrishnan Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 32-D666 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA jagdish [ at ] mit [ dot ] edu

Brief Biography

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. student at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and am affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). My research interests are system modeling, optimization, and resource allocation, particularly for applications in fields such as healthcare and energy. My doctoral research focuses on optimizing radiation delivery for cancer treatment, and my advisors are Prof. John N. Tsitsiklis, Prof. Thomas Bortfeld, and Prof. David Craft.

I received my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Georgia Tech.

Journal Publications

1. T. Bortfeld, J. Ramakrishnan, J. N. Tsitsiklis, and J. Unkelbach, "The effect of tumor repopulation on optimal fractionation schedules in radiation therapy", In preparation.
   
   
2. J. Unkelbach, D. Craft, E. Salari, J. Ramakrishnan, and T. Bortfeld, "The dependence of optimal fractionation schemes on the spatial dose distribution", Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 58, 2013, pp. 159-167. A news article about this paper was published on medicalphysicsweb, click here.
   
   
3. J. Ramakrishnan, D. Craft, T. Bortfeld, and J. N. Tsitsiklis, "A dynamic programming approach to adaptive fractionation", Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 57, 2012, pp. 1203-1216.

Published Abstracts

1. J. Ramakrishnan, D. Craft, T. Bortfeld, and J. N. Tsitsiklis, "Quantifying the Benefit of Adaptive Fractionation", Medical Physics, Vol. 39, 2012, pp. 3847.

Presentations

• The effect of tumor repopulation on optimal fractionation schedules in radiation therapy
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Oct 2012
  • LIDS Student Conference, Cambridge, MA, Feb 2013
  
  
• Adaptive fractionation therapy for prostate cancer
  • (Poster) The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Meeting, Charlotte, NC, July 2012
  
  
• Heuristic approaches to adaptive fractionation in radiation therapy
  • LIDS Student Conference, Cambridge, MA, Feb 2012
  
  
• A dynamic programming approach to adaptive fractionation in radiation therapy
  • (Slides, Extended Abstract) INFORMS Healthcare Meeting, Montreal, Canada, June 2011
  • (Poster) High-performance numerical methods supporting radiation therapy treatment planning workshop, Banff, Canada, March 2011
  • (Slides) LIDS Student Conference, Cambridge, MA, Jan 2011
  
  
• Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) planning for variable anatomy
  • Physics Seminar, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, June 2010

Teaching Experience

• MIT 6.041, Probabilistic Systems Analysis (Fall 2011, Fall 2012), Teaching Assistant
  
  
• Gatech ECE 3060, VLSI and Advanced Digital Design (Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Summer 2009), Teaching Assistant
  
  
• Gatech CS 1371, Computing for Engineers -- MATLAB (Fall 2007), Teaching Assistant