Kiran Kumar Vupparaboina

Dr Kiran Kumar Vupparaboina received the B. E. degree from the MVSR Engineering college (Osmania University) Hyderabad in 2006, M. Tech degree from National Institute of Technology, Hyderabad in 2009, and the Ph. D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad in 2017, all in Electrical Engineering. He is associated with LVPEI 2014, specifically, his doctoral research was pursued in collaboration with LV Prasad Eye Institute. Later, post his open colloquium he joined LVPEI as a Technical Lead, signal processing lab, Engineering Group, Srujana Innovation Center.

His research interests include 3D reconstruction, Medical image analysis, Computer vision and Medical imaging. He is involved in developing quantitative imaging and image analysis solutions for various problems related ophthalmological disease screening, treatment response monitoring and treatment planning. In particular, he has been working towards developing an efficient, patient-friendly as well as cost effective oculofacial 3D reconstruction system. Further, he has been developing problem specific algorithms quantifying clinically significant features from various imaging modalities including optical coherence tomography (OCT), adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope (AOSLO), OCT angiography (OCTA) and fundus photography.

His work has been published in many peer reviewed journals and conferences. He also serves as reviewer for many reputed journals including IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, IOP Science Measurement Technology and science. He mentored many graduate and post graduate students in various projects.