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Pinaki Sarder, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine – Section of Quantitative Health at the University of Florida (UF), with affiliate roles in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. He also serves as Associate Director for Imaging at the Intelligent Critical Care Center. Previously, he held tenure as an Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo (UB) in Pathology & Anatomical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering. His academic journey includes postdoctoral training in optical radiology at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) and a Research Fellowship at Harvard University's School of Public Health. He earned his B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur and M.Sc./Ph.D. in electrical engineering from WUSTL.
Dr. Sarder's research focuses on computational fusion of spatial omics data, particularly in diabetic kidney disease, leveraging AI and digital pathology. His work is funded by NIH, KPMP, and HubMAP. Key contributions include developing tools like ComPRePS for automated image analysis and the HistoLens platform for accessible pathology visualization. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics.
His awards include UB’s 2018 Exceptional Scholars – Young Investigator Award. He leads NIH-funded projects exploring kidney disease mechanisms, including the Cosmic Kidney Disease initiative investigating spaceflight-induced renal dysfunction. Dr. Sarder also contributes to educational initiatives, such as internship curricula promoting STEM diversity and consensus-based evaluation metrics for NIH programs.
Research interests span computational pathology, AI-driven diagnostic tools, kidney disease biomarker discovery, and translational medical imaging. His lab develops open-source tools like DUET for collagen/elastin quantification and FUSION for multi-omics data integration with histology.
- Grants: NIH, KPMP Consortium, HubMAP Consortium
- Labs: Computational Microscopy Imaging Laboratory
- Teams: Intelligent Critical Care Center, Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP)
