Vikash Chaurasia

I work at Philips Healthcare in Best, Netherlands, as an MRI Reconstruction Algorithm Engineer. I develop MRI algorithms for perfusion imaging, short echo time imaging, and AI-assisted medical imaging.

My background is in mechanical engineering, applied mathematics, computational mechanics, and biomechanics. Before joining Philips, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft with Prof. Eline van der Kruk and Prof. J.M. Prendergast, focusing on vision-based biomechanics and personalized musculoskeletal models. At OIST, I worked with Prof. Eliot Fried on geometric mechanics, including folding and mobility of unstretchable surfaces, Mobius and orientable bands, and energy-minimization models for virus-particle shapes.

I received my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston, where I worked with Prof. Eliot Fried and Prof. Yi-Chao Chen. Before that, I completed my B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur). For my master’s thesis, I worked with Prof. Basant Lal Sharma on energy-conserving symplectic algorithms for Hamiltonian dynamics.

Core interests

• Geometric mechanics of shape-changing structures
• Variational methods and constrained optimization
• Computational biophysics of particles, surfaces, and flows
• MRI reconstruction, medical imaging, and vision-based biomechanics

For selected project summaries, see the research page.