Specialization

Deep Learning for Healthcare Devices

Email

vsrivastava@thapar.edu

Biography

Dr. Vishal Srivastava received his Ph.D. and Master's degree in Instrumentation from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Huston, USA and in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of California Los Angles, USA. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access and various other journals. He has more than 30 publications in the SCI journals. He has supervised two PhD students and 3 are undergoing.

Honors and awards

• Post-Doctoral fellow in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, USA.
• Post-Doctoral fellow at Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, USA.
• Associate Editor of IEEE Access Journal.

Administrative, Academic and Institutional Responsibilities

1. Associate Dean of Student Affairs (ADoSA)-4 Since September 2025.
2. Head, Health Center, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology: Since August 2025.
3. Member, Placement Outreach Team, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology.
4. Member, Senate Undergraduate Committee: Since 2019.
5. ABET and NBA Criteria In-charge.
6. UG Coordinator, Biomedical Engineering Program, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala: March 2019–October 2023.
7. Admission Committee In-charge, Biomedical Engineering Program: 2019-2024.
8. Experiential Learning Coordinator, Biomedical Engineering Program: Since 2020.
9. Placement Co-coordinator, Biomedical Engineering Program, DEIED, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala: March 2019–December 2023.
10. Internship Co-coordinator, Biomedical Engineering Program: 2021–2024.
11. Course Harmonization Coordinator for the B.Tech. Biomedical Engineering Program at TIET with the B.E. Bioengineering Program at the University of Toledo, USA.
12. Student Counsellor, Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering Department: Since 2019.
13. Freshman Coordinator, Biomedical Engineering Program: 2019–2023.
14. Examination Superintendent: May 2025 and February 2026.
15. Deputy Examination Superintendent: May 2023.
16. Supervised more than 45 Capstone Projects during the last five years.
17. Developed more than 15 undergraduate courses, including Orientation and Introduction to Bioengineering Computing, Biomedical Quality Control, and Biomedical Control Systems.
18. Established and developed new teaching laboratories, including the Biomechanics Laboratory and Biomedical Computational Laboratory.
19. Member, Senate Research Committee, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala: June 2015–June 2017.
20. Time-Table In-charge, Department of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala: June 2015–June 2017.
21. Sports Coordinator, Department of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering: 2015–2017.

Publications:

1. A. Sharma, A. Agarwal, M. K. W. Kalenga, V. Gupta, and V. Srivastava, "AI in Parkinson’s disease: A short review of machine learning approaches for diagnosis," Processes, vol. 14, no. 2, Art. no. 199, 2026.
2. L. Rishi, D. Singh, V. Srivastava, and V. Gupta, "Engineering in healthcare: A comprehensive review on 3D-printed biopolymer-based implants," Polym. Int., early access, Nov. 11, 2025.
3. V. S. R. P. Akula, S. Basu, K. K. Goyal, O. P. Verma, V. Gupta, and V. Srivastava, "Efficiency takes flight: 3D-printed A2212 brushless direct current outrunner motor propelling next-gen drone deliveries," J. Mater. Eng. Perform., vol. 34, pp. 17185–17194, 2025.
4. S. Basu, G. Singh, R. Agarwal, and V. Srivastava, "Development of 3D intelligent quantitative phase microscope for sickle cells screening," J. Biophotonics, to be published.
5. B. Dhiman, S. Kamboj, and V. Srivastava, "Leveraging bidirectional long short-term memory in a encoder-decoder architecture to fuse inter-slice information for enhancing burn tissue segmentation using optical coherence tomography," Biomed. Signal Process. Control, vol. 107, Art. no. 107873, 2025.
6. V. S. R. P. Akula, S. Basu, K. K. Goyal, O. P. Verma, V. Gupta, and V. Srivastava, "Efficiency takes flight: 3D-printed A2212 brushless direct current outrunner motor propelling next-gen drone deliveries," J. Mater. Eng. Perform., 2024, doi: 10.1007/s11665-024-10525-3.
7. B. Dhiman, S. Kamboj, and V. Srivastava, "Explainable AI based efficient ensemble model for breast cancer classification using optical coherence tomography," Biomed. Signal Process. Control, vol. 91, Art. no. 106007, 2024.
8. S. Sharma, V. Gupta, D. Mudgal, and V. Srivastava, "Machine learning for forecasting the biomechanical behavior of orthopedic bone plates fabricated by fused deposition modeling," Rapid Prototyp. J., vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 441–459, 2024.
9. S. Sharma, V. Gupta, D. Mudgal, and V. Srivastava, "Optimization of polydopamine coating process for poly lactic acid‐based 3D printed bone plates using machine learning approaches," Polym. Eng. Sci., vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 279–295, 2024.
10. S. Basu, R. Agarwal, and V. Srivastava, "Development of an intelligent full‐field polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography for breast cancer classification," J. Biophotonics, vol. 16, no. 8, 2023.
11.  S. Sharma, V. Gupta, D. Mudgal, and V. Srivastava, "Predicting biomechanical properties of additively manufactured polydopamine coated poly lactic acid bone plates using deep learning," Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell., vol. 124, Art. no. 106587, 2023.
12. S. Basu, R. Agarwal, and V. Srivastava, "Deep discriminative learning model with calibrated attention map for the automated diagnosis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma," Biomed. Signal Process. Control, vol. 76, Art. no. 103681, 2022.
13. T. Anna, S. Chakraborty, C.-Y. Cheng, V. Srivastava, A. Chiou, and W.-C. Kuo, "Elucidation of microstructural changes in leaves during senescence using spectral domain optical coherence tomography," Sci. Rep., vol. 9, Art. no. 8887, 2019.
14. N. Singla, K. Dubey, and V. Srivastava, "Automated assessment of breast cancer margin in optical coherence tomography images via pre-trained convolutional neural network," J. Biophotonics, vol. 12, no. 3, Art. no. e201800238, 2019.
15. S. Kansal, J. Bhattacharya, and V. Srivastava, "Automated full-field polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography diagnostic systems for breast cancer," Appl. Opt., vol. 59, no. 25, pp. 7688–7693, 2020.
16. N. Singla and V. Srivastava, "Deep learning enabled multi-wavelength spatial coherence microscope for the classification of malaria-infected stages with limited labelled data size," Opt. Laser Technol., vol. 130, Art. no. 106335, 2020.
17. V. Singh, V. Srivastava, and D. S. Mehta, "Machine learning-based screening of red blood cells using quantitative phase imaging with micro-spectropolarimeter," Opt. Laser Technol., vol. 124, Art. no. 105980, 2020.
18. K. Dubey, A. Agarwal, A. S. Lathe, R. Kumar, and V. Srivastava, "Self-attention based BiLSTM-CNN classifier for the prediction of ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy," Laser Phys. Lett., vol. 17, no. 12, Art. no. 125601, 2020.
19. S. Kansal, S. Goel, J. Bhattacharya, and V. Srivastava, "Generative adversarial network–convolution neural network based breast cancer classification using optical coherence tomographic images," Laser Phys., vol. 30, no. 11, Art. no. 115601, 2020.
20. A. Gaur, A. Singh, A. Kumar, K. S. Kulkarni, S. Lala, K. Kapoor, V. Srivastava, A. Kumar, and S. C. Mukhopadhyay, "Fire sensing technologies: A review," IEEE Sensors J., vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 3191–3202, 2019.
21. A. Verma, S. Prakash, V. Srivastava, A. Kumar, and S. C. Mukhopadhyay, "Sensing, controlling, and IoT infrastructure in smart building: A review," IEEE Sensors J., vol. 19, no. 20, pp. 9036–9046, 2019.
22. A. Butola, A. Ahmad, V. Dubey, V. Srivastava, D. Qaiser, A. Srivastava, P. Senthilkumaran, and D. S. Mehta, "Volumetric analysis of breast cancer tissues using machine learning and swept-source optical coherence tomography," Appl. Opt., vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 1286–1292, 2019.
23. K. Dubey, N. Singla, A. Butola, A. Lathe, D. Quaiser, A. Srivastava, D. S. Mehta, and V. Srivastava, "Ensemble classifier for improve diagnosis of the breast cancer using optical coherence tomography and machine learning," Laser Phys. Lett., vol. 16, no. 2, Art. no. 025601, 2019.
24. V. Srivastava, D. Dalal, A. Kumar, S. Prakash, and K. Dalal, "In vivo automated quantification of the quality of apples during storage by optical coherence tomography images," Laser Phys., vol. 28, no. 6, Art. no. 065602, 2018.
25. N. Singla, V. Srivastava, and D. S. Mehta, "Development of full-field optical spatial coherence tomography system for automated identification of malaria using the multilevel ensemble classifier," J. Biophotonics, vol. 11, no. 5, Art. no. e201700182, 2018.
26. K. Dubey, V. Srivastava, and K. Dalal, "In vivo automated quantification of thermally damaged human tissue using polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography," Comput. Med. Imaging Graph., vol. 64, pp. 1–9, 2018.
27. N. Singla, V. Srivastava, and D. S. Mehta, "In vivo classification of human burn skin using machine learning and quantitative features captured by optical coherence tomography," Laser Phys. Lett., vol. 15, no. 2, Art. no. 025601, 2018.
28. K. Dubey, V. Srivastava, and D. S. Mehta, "Automated in-vivo identification of fungal infection on human scalp using optical coherence tomography and machine learning," Laser Phys., vol. 28, no. 4, Art. no. 045601, 2018.
29. R. Kumar, V. Srivastava, D. S. Mehta, and C. Shakher, "Role of arbitrary intensity profile laser beam in trapping of RBC for phase-imaging," J. Opt. Soc. Korea, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 78–82, 2016.
30. V. Srivastava, M. Inam, R. Kumar, and D. S. Mehta, "Single shot white light interference microscopy for 3D surface profilometry using single chip color camera," J. Opt. Soc. Korea, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 702–707, 2016.
31. A. Ahmad, V. Srivastava, V. Dubey, and D. S. Mehta, "Ultra-short longitudinal spatial coherence length of laser light with the combined effect of spatial, angular and temporal diversity," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 106, no. 9, Art. no. 093701, 2015.
32. M. Inam, V. Srivastava, and D. S. Mehta, "Three-dimensional profilometry of microlenses by phase-shifting interferometry using nematic liquid crystal material filled cell as phase modulator," Appl. Opt., vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1021–1026, 2015.
33. A. Kumar, V. Srivastava, M. K. Singh, and G. P. Hancke, "Current status of the IEEE 1451 standard based sensor applications," IEEE Sensors J., vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 2705–2713, 2015.
34. V. Srivastava, S. Nandy, and D. S. Mehta, "High-resolution full-field optical coherence tomography using a spatially incoherent monochromatic light source," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 103, no. 10, Art. no. 103702, 2013.
35. V. Srivastava, S. Nandy, and D. S. Mehta, "High-resolution corneal topography and tomography of the fish eye using wide-field white light interference microscopy," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 102, no. 15, Art. no. 153701, 2013.
36. V. Srivastava, M. Inam, T. Anna, and D. S. Mehta, "Common-path spectral-domain low-coherence interferometric system for the measurement of small changes in refractive index of liquid crystal cell," Opt. Lasers Eng., vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 699–703, 2012.
37. M. Inam, V. Srivastava, and D. S. Mehta, "Measurement of birefringence of nematic liquid crystal material by multiple-wavelength interferometry using nearly common-path single-stage Mach–Zehnder interferometer," Appl. Opt., vol. 52, no. 33, pp. 8108–8114, 2013.
38. D. S. Mehta and V. Srivastava, "Quantitative phase imaging of human red blood cells using phase-shifting white light interference microscopy with colour fringe analysis," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 101, no. 20, Art. no. 203701, 2012.
39. V. Srivastava, T. Anna, and D. S. Mehta, "Full-field Hilbert phase microscopy using nearly common path low coherence off-axis interferometry for quantitative imaging of biological cells," J. Opt., vol. 14, no. 12, Art. no. 125701, 2012.
40. V. Srivastava, T. Anna, M. Sudan, and D. S. Mehta, "Topographic and volumetric reconstruction of composite materials using full-field swept-source optical coherence tomography," Meas. Sci. Technol., vol. 23, no. 5, Art. no. 055203, 2012.
41. T. Anna, V. Srivastava, D. S. Mehta, and C. Shakher, "High resolution full-field optical coherence microscopy using Mirau interferometer for the quantitative imaging of biological cells," Appl. Opt., vol. 50, no. 34, pp. 6343–6351, 2011.
42. T. Anna, V. Srivastava, C. Shakher, and D. S. Mehta, "Transmission mode full-field swept-source optical coherence tomography for simultaneous amplitude and quantitative phase imaging of transparent objects," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 23, no. 22, pp. 1709–1711, 2011.
43. M. Inam, G. Singh, V. Srivastava, J. P. Rana, T. Joshi, and D. S. Mehta, "Two-dimensional cell parameters measurement of nematic liquid crystal using optical interferometry and Fourier transform fringe analysis technique," Opt. Commun., vol. 284, no. 23, pp. 5420–5426, 2011.

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Book Chapters:

1. Full-field optical coherence tomography and microscopy using spatially incoherent monochromatic light, Dalip Singh Mehta, Vishal Srivastava, Sreyankar Nandy, Azeem Ahmad and Vishesh DubeyHandbook of Optical Coherence Microscopy Technology and Applications, Volume 1, CRC Press Taylor and Francis Group

2. White Light Phase-Shifting Interference Microscopy for Quantitative Phase Imaging of Red Blood Cells, Dalip Singh Mehta &Vishal Srivastava, pp 581-584, Springer.

Awards and Honours

• Received Best Poster award in WRAP 2013 Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics, IIT Delhi, India December 17-18 (2013).

• Received second best Project award during the I2 Tech – Open House held on 20th April 2013 in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

• Awarded travel grant from Department of science and technology (DST), India to participate the “SPIE Photonics West conference on BIOS,” San Francisco, California, Feb02-07, (2013).

• Received Best Poster award in XXXVI Optical Society of India Symposium Frontiers in Optics and Photonics (FOP11), IIT Delhi, India December 2-5 (2011).

• Awarded MHRD scholarship for 2009- 2013; for the Ph. D. duration

• Awarded MHRD scholarship for 2005- 2007; for the M. Tech. duration.

• GATE qualified in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2004 and 2005.

Research Overview

My research lies at the intersection of biophotonics, biomedical imaging, optical instrumentation, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on developing label-free, quantitative and intelligent diagnostic technologies. His work spans quantitative phase imaging, optical coherence tomography, optical coherence elastography, polarization-sensitive imaging, and AI/deep learning for automated disease detection and characterization. His current research advances AI-enabled intelligent microscopy, early bone-cancer detection, quantum-enabled virtual histological staining, and computational biomedical imaging, with a strong emphasis on clinical translation. He actively collaborates with leading medical institutions, including PGIMER Chandigarh, AIIMS New Delhi, and Government Medical College Chandigarh, to develop and clinically validate advanced imaging and AI-based diagnostic technologies. His research has resulted in 40+ international journal publications, multiple patents, major sponsored projects from ICMR and SERB, and supervision of five Ph.D. scholars.

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