Research Experience

Health Care Systems Engineering- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA (Advisor: Prof. T. Kesavadas)

1. Research Assistant- Intelligent Interventional Surgical Robotic System

• Developing an Intelligent Robotic System to perform Breast Biopsy Procedure
• Developed machine intelligence for robot device to assist surgeon perform an Interventional procedure

2. Project Supervisor- Training simulator for breast cancer diagnosis

• Formulated research problem, Identification training simulator design requirement
• Project planning, task coordination and coauthoring publication

3. Graduate Student Supervisor(3 students)- Multi-Modular Endovascular Robotic System project

• Developed conceptual designed for multi-modular endovascular robotic system

4. Graduate Student Supervisor(25+ students)- Virtual Reality Healthcare Simulation project

• Developed a virtual reality wireless controller to enable user interaction in virtual environment
• Guided internship students in the following projects
  • Development of authoring tool to create interactive 360° video virtual environment for medical training
  • Virtual reality server based scenario creation for multi-user on-line classroom equipped for anatomy discussion
  • Interactive Mixed Reality (IMR) Sepsis Training for Undergraduate Medical Education
  • Virtual Reality based Simulated Surgical Robotic Trainer for Surgical Assistants

5. Research Assistant- Ergonomic Endovascular Surgical Robotic System

• Developed and controlled ergonomics medical robot to assist surgeon during vasculature procedure

Intuitive Surgical- Sunnyvale, California, USA (Manager: Ryan Steger, Mentors: Dan Gomez, Govind Payyavula)

1. VR & Digital Prototyping Software Engineer Intern-R&D

• Developed a complete VR-based software tool and hardware facility to allow the Intuitive Surgical R&D team to do VR-based digital prototyping, interaction, and testing workflow to accelerate evaluations of future product concepts.
• Created Unity-based VR and Mixed Reality (MR) applications that allow engineers to visualize and manipulate full-scale 3D CAD models in realistic virtual surgical operating room environments, creating a room-scale motion tracking system using OptiTrak cameras, integrating support for both HTC Vive and Oculus HMDs, and creating custom software to allow for interaction with both real and virtual objects in a MR experience.

Robotics Lab- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (Supervisor: Prof. T. Asokan)

1. Project Associate-Design of Variable Buoyancy System for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)

• Designed, developed and tested the proposed variable buoyancy engine in Flat Fish AUV
• Achieved positions control with variable buoyancy

Brakes India- Real Talent Engineering Ltd, Sholinghur, India

1. Internship

• Analyzed real time root cause for breakdown of automated and semi-automated machines
• Triaged and troubleshooting problems in production line to reduce cycle time