Rohit Nayak received his bachelor's degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Mani-pal University, India, in 2010. During his undergraduate studies, he carried out research in areas related to medical image processing and analysis. He completed his undergraduate thesis work at the Indian Institute of Science, working on surface plasmon resonance. Subsequently, he served as a project assistant at the Indian Institute of Science, where he worked on compressed-sensing-based reconstruction of frequency domain optical coherence tomograms. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Rochester as a Ph.D. student in 2011. His research interests are in the areas of cardiovascular imaging, ultrasound beamforming, and elastography.