Meet the passionate team behind LumaWave, combining innovation, engineering expertise, and a shared mission to transform diagnostic imaging.
Vinoin Devpaul Vincely, PhD is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LumaWave, where he leads the development and commercialization of the portable photoacoustic imaging platform for deep-tissue oxygenation assessment. With a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University and M.S. in Physics at Miami University, Vinoin brings expertise spanning photoacoustic and optical imaging instrumentation, computational modeling, tissue optics, ultrasound physics, signal processing, and medical device translation. He was the co-inventor of LumaWave's photoacoustic platform, taking it from early-stage concept through preclinical validation. As a former innovation fellow, Vinoin has both the technical and entrepreneurial skills to directed product strategy and build commercialization pathways for next-generation imaging technologies.
Carolyn L. Bayer, PhD is a Founder and the Chief Technical Officer of LumaWave and a tenured Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. A leading expert in photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging, she has spent more than a decade developing advanced biomedical imaging technologies for assessing tissue oxygenation, perfusion, and vascular function. Carolyn co-invented LumaWave's photoacoustic platform and has led multiple NIH-funded programs that advanced the technology from fundamental research through preclinical validation. Combining deep scientific expertise with prior industry experience in medical devices, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical development, she provides the technical vision and scientific leadership guiding LumaWave's product development and clinical translation strategy.
Suraj Rajasekhar, PhD, is an Optical Systems Engineer at LumaWave, where he models light transport in deep tissue for functional imaging, runs phantom experiments to validate those models, and designs light delivery systems. His PhD in biophysics, completed under Dr. Karthik Vishwanath in the OSIM lab at Miami University, centered on time-domain diffuse optical spectroscopy (TD-DOS) for recovering absorption and scattering properties in bilayered tissue. The work combined bilayer diffusion theory, Monte Carlo photon transport, and hands-on TD-DOS instrumentation, with Julia as his primary language and Python and C as secondary. Before that, he taught high school physics in Bengaluru and lectured at St. Joseph’s University. At Miami he served as Instructor of Record and Assistant Director of the Instructional Laboratory, earning the Glenn and Betty Julian Award for Excellence in Student Teaching in 2025.
Keerthi Panguluri, M.S. is an Acoustic Systems Engineer at LumaWave. She earned her master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and her bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering from the University of California, Riverside. Prior to joining LumaWave, she worked on the design and development of medical devices and assistive technologies, including an open-source near-infrared spectroscopy device for detecting necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), an ostomy refeeding port, and a lateral trunk support system for power wheelchair users. Her work also includes robotic arm development, combining mechanical design, electronics, and programming. She brings experience in circuit design, biomedical signal processing, and hardware integration, with a focus on translating clinical and user needs into functional medical device prototypes.