About
I'm a sixth year PhD candidate in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at UC Berkeley. I am advised by Miki Lustig, and I work on methods for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). This is a broad area that spans signal processing, radio frequency (RF) electronics, physics, and machine learning. My thesis research focuses on sensing and correcting for patient motion during the MRI exam. I created a wireless RF sensor, simulated and characterized it, and am developing algorithms that use the sensor data to correct for motion in the MR images. I'm generally interested in computational imaging (including but not limited to MRI), biosensing, and machine learning.
I did my undergraduate studies at MIT, where I received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (2017), and an M.Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2018). I worked with Larry Wald at the A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging on MRI hardware.
Publications
Beat Pilot Tone: Versatile, Contact-Free Motion Sensing in MRI with Radio Frequency Intermodulation
Suma Anand and Michael Lustig.[arXiv paper]
Three-Dimensional Rigid Head Motion Correction Using The Beat Pilot Tone and Gaussian Processes
Niek R.F. Huttinga, Suma Anand, Cornelis A.T. van den Berg, Alessandro Sbrizzi, and Michael Lustig.Program # 1019
Oral presentation, ISMRM 2023
Wireless In-Bore Ballistocardiography with 2.4GHz Beat Pilot Tone (BPT)
Suma Anand and Michael Lustig.Program # 0756
Oral presentation, ISMRM 2023
Spread-Spectrum Modulated Pilot Tone (SSMPT) for Motion Sensing
Daniel Raz Abraham, Suma Anand, and Michael Lustig.[html abstract]
Power pitch, ISMRM 2022
Received the summa cum laude award (top 5% of abstracts).
Cardiac and Respiratory-Resolved Image Reconstruction with the Beat Pilot Tone
Kathryn Lamar-Bruno, Suma Anand, and Michael Lustig.[html abstract]
Poster presentation, ISMRM 2022
Beat Pilot Tone: Exploiting Preamplifier Intermodulation of UHF/SHF RF for Improved Motion Sensitivity over Pilot Tone Navigators
Suma Anand, Michael Lustig.[html abstract]
Oral presentation, ISMRM 2021
Received the summa cum laude award (top 5% of abstracts), MR Engineering Study Group award for best oral presentation, and Motion Correction Study Group award for best oral presentation.
Free-breathing Abdominal Fat Spectroscopy with Multi-Echo Rosette k-space Sampling
Suma Anand, Adam Michael Bush, Christopher Michael Sandino, Shreyas Vasanawala, and Michael Lustig.[html abstract]
Power pitch, ISMRM 2020
Received the magna cum laude award (top 15% of abstracts).
A low-cost (< $500 USD) FPGA-based console capable of real-time control
Suma Anand, Jason P. Stockmann, Lawrence L. Wald, and Thomas Witzel.[html abstract]
Oral presentation, ISMRM 2018
Awards
ISMRM Motion Correction Study Group, best oral presentation at ISMRM 2021.ISMRM MR Engineering Study Group, best oral presentation at ISMRM 2021.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), 2019.
UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fellowship for Graduate Study, 2018.