Dr Srivalleesha Mallidi received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Mallidi master’s thesis involved custom designing ultrasound based multi-modality imaging systems while her doctoral work explored the utility of surface plasmon resonance properties of spherical gold nanoparticles for early detection of cancer and probing nano-molecular interactions. After graduation, she joined Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital as a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein postdoctoral. She has received several Young Investigator awards, Rising Star Awards from national and international conferences such as the International Photodynamic Association. She currently directs the integrated Bifunctional imaging and Therapeutics lab (iBIT Lab) at Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University. Her research interests are in the fields of ultrasound imaging, photoacoustic imaging, image-guided therapeutics, photodynamic therapy and combination treatments.