Dr. Parag Chitnis received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University under the supervision of Robin Cleveland in 2007. His dissertation focused on interaction between acoustic shock waves and kidney stones for the purpose of understanding the mechanisms of stone fragmentation and treatment optimization. His post-Doctoral research at Boston University with Ronald Roy involved a study of bubble dynamics in response to acoustic waves with the goal of mitigating cavitation- induced damage to the mercury-based spallation neutron source located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Since 2008, Parag Chitnis has been working at the F. L. Lizzi Center for Biomedical Engineering at Riverside Research as a Research Scientist.

He has been involved in multiple projects spanning noninvasive ablation therapy using high-intensity focused ultrasound, interaction between high-frequency ultrasound and encapsulated microbubbles, and photoacoustic imaging. He is the lead research contact for a variety of ongoing projects involving photoacoustics and is the Principal Investigator for a NIH-funded project on developping an ultra-fine resolution photoacoustic microscope for imaging the retina.