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Dr. V. Jagadeesh Kumar received his B.E. Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Madras in 1978, and his M.Tech. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in 1980 and 1986, respectively. He is presently a faculty member in the department of Electrical Engineering and dean at IIT Madras. He was a BOYSCAST Fellow at King’s College London during 1987-88. He was a DAAD fellow at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany during 1997. He worked as a Visiting Scientist at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany during 1999, 2010, 2013 and 2019. He holds two patents and has published 30 papers in international journals and presented papers at several conferences. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of Measurements, Instrumentation and Signal Processing.
Dr. SteffenLeonhardt received his M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Buffalo (SUNY), NY, the Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering and the Dr.-Ing. degree in Control Engineering from Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, and the M.D. degree in Medicine from J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Prior to returning to academia, he worked for almost 5 years at the R&D department of Dräger Medical GmbH Co KGaA, Lübeck, Germany. In 2003, he was appointed Full Professor and Head of the Philips endowed Chair of Medical Information Technology at the Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. In 2018, he received a honoray doctorate degree from Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, and was appointed Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Dr. Leonhardt´s research interests include physiological measurement techniques, personal health care systems, cyber-medical systems andfeedback control systems in medicine.
Dr. Mandavilli Mukunda Rao was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois, USA. He is a retired professor of of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras where he was teaching in the area of Laser and Optical Communication. He has published a book on optical communication and several research papers in reputed journals. His research interests include Optical Non-invasive Diagnostics. He spent several years at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany, first as DAAD Fellow (1970-1972) and then as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (1978-1979). He is currently an Honorary Research Professor at Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Studies in Skin Perfusion Dynamics
Book Subtitle: Photoplethysmography and its Applications in Medical Diagnostics
Editors: Vladimir Blazek, Jagadeesh Kumar V., Steffen Leonhardt, Mandavilli Mukunda Rao
Series Title: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5449-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5447-6Published: 21 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5449-0Published: 20 January 2021
Series ISSN: 1618-7210
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5647
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 238
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Imaging / Radiology