Hariharan Subramanian's Biography

Hariharan Subramanian, Research Assistant Professor; Chief Technology Officer, NanoCytomics, Northwestern University

Dr. Subramanian is a biomedical engineer whose work focuses on translating academic research into commercially successful technologies. He is currently Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and Chief Technology Officer at NanoCytomics, and has over 10 years of experience in tissue optics, light scattering and spectroscopic microscopy. He was one of the original developers of the technology behind Partial Wave Spectroscopic Microscopy. He is currently spearheading the clinical implementation of the technology for application in screening different cancers including Lung, Colon, Pancreatic, Prostate, Esophageal, and Ovarian cancer as well as developing the application of PWS microscopy to understand biological processes in live cells. He has also developed optical sensors that can detect blood flow and oxygenation in real time as well as novel signal processing algorithms that can measure blood content in real time. Dr. Subramanian has considerable experience in the area of biomedical optics with publications in leading journals such as PNAS, Physical Review Letters, Optics Letters, and Physical Review E. He also has extensive experience in clinical research with publications in journals such as Cancer Research and Biophysical Journal.