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Ajit P. Yoganathan
The Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering,
Associate Chair for Research, & Regents' Professor
Contact Information
Building: Petit IBB
Office:
1126
Phone: 404.894.2849
Fax: 404.894.2291
email
Mailing Address
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering
311 Ferst Drive, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30332-0100
Links
Ajit P. Yoganathan
Education
B.Sc. 1973, University College, University of London, England
Ph.D. 1978, California Institute of Technology
Research Interests
Professor Yoganathan's research deals with experimental and computational fluid mechanics as it pertains to artificial heart valves, left and right sides of the heart, and congenital heart diseases. His work involves the use of laser Doppler velocimetry, digital particle image velocimetry, Doppler ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging to non-invasively study and quantify blood flow patterns in the cardiovascular system. He has published over 250 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters in leading biomedical journals and books. In 1985, Dr. Yoganathan was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship from West
Germany to spend nine months at the Helmholtx Institute of Biomedical Research, Technical University of Aachen. In 1988 he received the Edwin Walker Prize from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, UK. He was elected a founding fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 1992. In 1992, he spent six months in Denmark as a Visiting Professor of the Danish Research Academy. He received the H.R. Lissner award, for his contributions to the field of bioengineering, in 1997 from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 2004 he was appointed to the prestigious Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech & Emory. In 2005 he was awarded the Theo Pilkington award, for his contributions to Biomedical Engineering education, by the American Society of Engineering Education. He is chair of the International Standards Organization Subcommittee on Cardiovascular Implants, member of the executive committee of the Biomedical Engineering Society, past member of the NIH Surgery and Bioengineering Study Section, and past chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Bioengineering Division. He is a leading consultant to the cardiovascular medical device industry.
Dr. Yoganathan is the Associate Chair for Research in The Wallace H. Coulter School of Biomedical Engineering, a Regents' Professor & the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering.