Shinjini Kundu

Before completing high school at 16, Kundu would help her father, a computer engineer, take apart computers. This influenced her studies at Stanford University, where she graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering, and served as editor in chief of the university's undergraduate research journal. During this time, a class on medical imaging led Kundu into the medical field, where she believed she could use her expertise to diagnose patients faster. Kundu enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program conducted by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to her doctoral program, Kundu also trained as an Indian classical dancer and performed at Madison Square Garden.

Kundu's research focuses on "transport-based morphometry," or TBM, which applies machine learning techniques to identify latent disease not readily observable by humans reviewing traditional magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs). Kundu has authored or co-authored eight peer-reviewed publications, including in the journals European Radiology and World Journal of Gastroenterology, and has presented at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

In 2016, Dr. Kundu was recognized in Pittsburgh Magazine's "40 Under 40," which remarked "The lightning speed of Shinjini Kundu’s academic progress could test the laws of physics, much less those of probability."

In 2017, Dr. Kundu was one of four academics recognized at NRI of the Year, Times Now's annually televised Indian awards show recognizing achievement by those of Indian descent.

• S. Kundu, S. Rogal, A. Alam and D. Levinthal, Rapid improvement in post-infectious gastroparesis symptoms with mirtazapine (2014) in World Journal of Gastroenterology 20(21): 6671–6674.
• S. Kundu, L. Alhilali, L. Nguyen and S. Fakhran, Angioglioma Misdiagnosed as Encephalomalacia on Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Over a Decade (2014) in Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography 28(3): 485-87.
• S. Kundu, J. Bryk and A. Alam, Resolution of Suicidal Ideation With Corticosteroids in a Patient With Concurrent Addison’s Disease and Depression (2014) in Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders 16(6).
• S. Kundu et al., Assessment of lung volume collapsibility in chronic obstructive lung disease patients using CT (2013) in European Radiology 23(6): 1564–1572.
• S.R. Park, S. Kolouri, S. Kundu, and G. Rodhe, The cumulative distribution transform and linear pattern classification (2017) in Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (forthcoming)