About

Praful Pai is an experienced Biomedical Engineer currently working at MathWorks as an Education Customer Success / Education Technical Evangelist. With a passion for accelerating research and making STEM education engaging, Praful utilizes MathWorks MATLAB & Simulink to help accelerate the pace of engineering and science. Praful has a wealth of experience in the field, having spent 6.79 years working in various roles including Research Scientist and Research & Development Engineer at the National Brain Research Centre. During his time there, Praful's primary responsibility involved the creation of a population-specific structural MRI templates for the Indian population. This required the creation of a normative MRI data set using the in-house scanner present at NBRC, with the image data from different subjects processed and registered to each other before being averaged to obtain a template of the entire population. Praful's educational background includes a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, an M.S. by Research in Visual Information Processing and Embedded Systems from the same institution, and a B.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology. Praful's tech stack includes expertise in Research Scientist, Image Processing, and Deep Learning. He is passionate about instrumentation, signal/image processing, statistics, and machine/deep learning, and is always looking for ways to apply his knowledge to make a positive impact in the world.