In our group, we work towards realizing innovative integrated micro-systems addressing a variety of interdisciplinary technical challenges and applications. These activities form the core components of novel, robust and low cost physical and chemical sensing platform development in our group. We also cherish our strong collaborations with other research groups that allow us to harness complementary skill-sets and push our limits. Our philosophy is that innovation in a single area of research inevitably leads to compromise between technology and performance. Trade-offs are inherent to product design and technology development, however as engineers and researchers, we must seek to integrate hybrid technologies to explore multi-disciplinary solutions to our problems.
Research topics
We are a young and vibrant group and are not afraid to venture out of our comfort zone to leverage our collective expertise to solve interesting, challenging and relevant problems that we face today, while anticipating technology needs and working towards solving problems that may surface in the future. The research areas being pursued currently are listed below (see publications page for links to our publications):
- Biosensors
- Optical and electrochemical sensing platforms for various applications
- DNA sensing in environmental samples (wastewater and surface water sources)
- PCB based immunosensors for low-cost, point-of-care diagnostics for affordable healthcare
- Paper microfluidic devices, MEMS and microfabricated biosensors
- Structural health monitoring
- Eddy current based metal detection and rebar corrosion monitoring
- Embedded systems for ultrasonic guided wave based damage identification and localization in composite structures and pipelines
- TinyML systems and applications in condition monitoring and structural health monitoring
- Other areas
- High density EEG data recording and real-time signal processing with FPGAs
- Low-cost robotic platforms for autonomous sensing
Collaborators (active)
- Prof. Sauvik Banerjee, Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay
- Prof. Kiran Kondabagil, Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay
- Prof. Debjani Paul, Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay
- Prof. Nivethida Thirugnanasambandam, Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay
- Prof. Laxmeesha Somappa, Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
- Prof. Richa Pandey, Biomedical Engineering, University of Calgary
Past collaborators
- Prof. Dipti Gupta, ME&MS, IIT Bombay
- Dr. Andrew Ward, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
- Prof. Tian-Li Wu, International College of Semiconductor Technology, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan
- Prof. Varun Bhalerao, Physics, IIT Bombay
- Prof. Animesh Kumar, Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay