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Obama Honours Two South Asian Science, Math Mentors
Over the years, he established excellent collaborations with several instittions to place students for summer internships and ecological field trips. according to his profile.
He is an active research mentor for undergraduates and is Southern University at New Orleans's Beta Kappa Chi/National Institute of Science chapters' sponsor.
He has won several awards for his work as a mentor, including the National Role Model Faculty Award from Minority Access, Inc., in 2008.
His research interests are Phytoremediation, Environmental Toxicology, ecological studies on coastal ponds, and Environmental Biotechnology.
Originally from Sri Lanka, Ratnanather is at the forefront of the relatively new field of computational anatomy, an emerging discipline at the interface of geometry, statistics, and image analysis.
His current research interests include shape analysis of brain structures in schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, and deafness in addition to mathematical and computational problems in cochlear and cardiac physiology, according to his university profile.
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Source: IANS
