Pallavi Tiwari

Pallavi Tiwari
Born	India
Alma mater	Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science Rutgers University
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Wisconsin–Madison Case Western Reserve University
Thesis	Quantitative integration of imaging and non-imaging data : application to integrating multi-parametric MRI for prostate cancer diagnosis, grading and treatment evaluation (2012)
Website	Integrated Diagnostics and Analytics (IDiA) Laboratory for Precision Medicine

Pallavi Tiwari is an Indian American biomedical engineer who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research considers the development of computer algorithms to accelerate the diagnosis and treatment of disease. She was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Early life and education

Tiwari is from India. She said that her parents always encouraged her to study science, and valued higher education. She attended the Kendriya Vidyalaya high school, and moved to the Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science for undergraduate studies. She became inspired by biomedical engineering whilst she was at college, developing wearable technologies to help people with visible impairments. She moved to Rutgers University for her doctoral research, where she worked with a surgeon to analyze human error in surgery.

Research and career

At Case Western Reserve University, Tiwari built machine learning algorithms that could accelerate the diagnosis of disease from medical images. In particular, Tiwari creates artificial intelligence tools to assess magnetic resonance imaging data and determine whether body tissue contains malignancies. At Case Western, she served as Director of the Brain Image Computing (BrIC) Laboratory.

Tiwari joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2022, where she was made co-director of the UW Carbone Cancer Center.

Awards and honors

• 2018 Crain's Business Cleveland Forty Under 40
• 2020 Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM²D Scholars Award
• 2021 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine
• 2023 Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Selected publications

• Bakas, Spyridon; Reyes, Mauricio; Jakab, Andras; Bauer, Stefan; Rempfler, Markus; Crimi, Alessandro; Shinohara, Russell Takeshi; Berger, Christoph; Ha, Sung Min; Rozycki, Martin; Prastawa, Marcel; Alberts, Esther; Lipkova, Jana; Freymann, John; Kirby, Justin (2018-11-05), Identifying the Best Machine Learning Algorithms for Brain Tumor Segmentation, Progression Assessment, and Overall Survival Prediction in the BRATS Challenge, doi:10.17863/CAM.38755, S2CID 53225711
• Nathaniel M Braman; Maryam Etesami; Prateek Prasanna; Christina Dubchuk; Hannah Gilmore; Pallavi Tiwari; Donna Plecha; Anant Madabhushi (18 May 2017). "Intratumoral and peritumoral radiomics for the pretreatment prediction of pathological complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy based on breast DCE-MRI". Breast Cancer Research. 19 (1): 57. doi:10.1186/S13058-017-0846-1. ISSN 1465-542X. PMC 5437672. PMID 28521821. Wikidata Q33706962. (erratum)
• Prateek Prasanna; Jay Patel; Sasan Partovi; Anant Madabhushi; Pallavi Tiwari (24 October 2016). "Radiomic features from the peritumoral brain parenchyma on treatment-naïve multi-parametric MR imaging predict long versus short-term survival in glioblastoma multiforme: Preliminary findings". European Radiology. 27 (10): 4188–4197. doi:10.1007/S00330-016-4637-3. ISSN 0938-7994. PMC 5403632. PMID 27778090. Wikidata Q36173696. (erratum)