Prashant Pandey

Engineer · Inventor · Scientist

Prashant Pandey

I build tools that help surgeons find things inside the body: the FDA-cleared MOLLI 2 localization system, radiation-free ultrasound navigation, and the machine learning that makes them work. Senior Staff Engineer at Stryker in Toronto.

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01Highlights

Things I’m proud of

Medical devices

Inventor of MOLLI 2

Co-inventor of MOLLI 2 at MOLLI Surgical, a wire-free system for localizing breast tumours during surgery. It was cleared by the US FDA in January 2023, and the MOLLI portfolio is now part of Stryker.

wave the wand around to find the hidden marker

Funding

Over $2M in competitive grants

Lead or co-applicant on grants including a $2M INOVAIT Focus Fund award to commercialize ultrasound- and AI-based tumour localization, plus research grants from the Orthopaedic Trauma Association and WorkSafeBC.

Patents

Surgical localization inventions

Named inventor on four pending patent families (US, PCT and European filings) for magnetic and ultrasound localization of breast lesions, including as first-named inventor on neural-network rejection of magnetic interference.

PhD research

Radiation-free surgical navigation

Built NOFUSS (Navigated Orthopaedic Fixation using UltraSound System), an ultrasound-based navigation system for pelvic fracture fixation. In a human cadaver trial it matched fluoroscopic accuracy with no intraoperative radiation and a shorter median insertion time.

Medical AI

Outperforming ophthalmologists

As engineering lead of Retinographer, developed a CNN ensemble that detected four retinal diseases more accurately than seven board-certified ophthalmologists (79.2% vs 72.7%), then used diffusion models to synthesize realistic training data.

Honours

Vanier Scholar and Gold Medal finalist

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar (2020–2023) and a finalist for UBC’s Governor General’s Gold Medal, shortlisted as one of UBC’s top graduating PhDs.

02Experience

Where I’ve worked

Full experience
  • Senior Staff Engineer · Stryker
    Sep 2024 – Present
  • Engineering Scientist · MOLLI Surgical
    Nov 2021 – Sep 2024
  • Engineering Lead · Retinographer
    May 2020 – Sep 2023
  • PhD Researcher (Vanier Scholar) · Surgical Technologies Laboratory, University of British Columbia
    Dec 2018 – Aug 2023
  • MASc Researcher · Surgical Technologies Laboratory, University of British Columbia
    Aug 2016 – Dec 2018
  • MEng Researcher · BUBBL Group, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford
    Sep 2015 – Jun 2016

03Research & inventions

Publications and patents

Peer-reviewed research on ultrasound-based surgical navigation, bone segmentation and medical deep learning, and inventions in surgical localization.

17
Peer-reviewed journal & conference papers
4
Patent families as named inventor
390+
Citations on Google Scholar
$2M+
Competitive funding as lead or co-applicant

Selected publications

All publicationsGoogle Scholar

Patents

All patents

04Writing

Tutorials and notes

Tutorials I wrote for myself, students and researchers getting started with machine learning in medicine and deep learning on HPC clusters.

All writing

Say hello

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