Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, PhD

Ganesh Sankaranarayanan received his MS from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2002 and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2007, both in Electrical Engineering. From 2008 to 2015, he was involved in surgical simulator development and research at the Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Imaging in Medicine (CeMSIM) at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. From 2015 to 2021, he was the Assistant Director of the Center for Evidence Based Simulation at the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, at Texas A&M College of Medicine. Currently, he is an Associate professor in the Department of surgery with a joint appointment in biomedical engineering at the UT Southwestern Medical Center where he co-directs the Center for Assessment of Surgical Proficiency, which focuses on surgical simulation and surgical proficiency and the director of the artificial intelligence and medical simulation (AIMS) lab. He is a Surgical Education Research Fellow (SERF) from the Association of Surgical Education. His NIH R01 funded research is focused on simulation in healthcare, Artificial Intelligence for surgical education and assessment, surgical robotics, and haptics.