Research

Research Interests

My research interest floats around the health technologies that allow to explore different research fields as listed below.  

Journal Publications

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J.1 Solanki, Dhaval and Lahiri, Uttama. "Adaptive Treadmill-Assisted Virtual Reality-Based Gait Rehabilitation for Post-Stroke Physical Reconditioning—a Feasibility Study in Low-Resource Settings," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 88830-88843, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2994081. 

J.2 Solanki, Dhaval; Kumar, Siddhant; B, Shubha; and Lahiri, Uttama. “Implications of Physiology-sensitive Gait Exercise on the Lower Limb Electromyographic Activity of hemiplegic Post-Stroke patients: A Feasibility Study in Low Resource Settings.” IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, doi: 10.1109/JTEHM.2020.3006181.

J.3 Solanki, Dhaval and Lahiri, Uttama. “Design of instrumented shoes for gait characterization: a usability study with healthy and post-stroke hemiplegic individuals.” Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 12, Jun. 2018, doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00459.

J.4 Dhiman, Ashish; Solanki, Dhaval; Bhasin, Ashu; Das, Abhijit and Lahiri, Uttama. "An intelligent, adaptive, performance‐sensitive, and virtual reality‐based gaming platform." Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds 29, no. 2 (2018): e1800, doi: 10.1002/cav.1800.

J.5 Zeynab, Rezaee; Kaura, Surbhi; Solanki, Dhaval; Dash, Adyasha; Srivastava, MV Padma; Lahiri, Uttama; and Dutta, Anirban. "Deep Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of the Dentate Nucleus to Facilitate Standing Balance in Chronic Stroke Survivors." Brain Sciences 10, no. 2 (2020): 94, doi: 10.3390/brainsci10020094.

J.6 Zeynab, Rezaee; Ranjan, Shashi; Solanki, Dhaval; Bhattachar, Mahasweta; Srivastava, MV; Lahiri, Uttama and Dutta, Anirban. (2020). "Functional near-infrared spectroscopy in conjunction with electroencephalography of cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation responses in the latent neurovascular coupling space a chronic stroke study", doi: 10.1101/2020.05.24.113928. 

J.7 Solanki, Dhaval; Kumar, Siddhant and Lahiri, Uttama. "Virtual Reality Based Body Weight Support Aided Platform for Post-stroke Gait Characterization and Rehabilitation.“ IEEE Healthcare Technology Letters [Under Review].

J.8 Solanki, Dhaval; Zeynab Rezaee; Dutta, Anirban and Lahiri, Uttama; “Investigating the Effects of Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Post-Stroke Overground Gait Performance: a partial least-squares regression approach.” Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, doi: 10.1186/s12984-021-00817-3.

J.9 Rezaee, Zeynab, Shashi Ranjan, Dhaval Solanki, Mahasweta Bhattacharya, MV Padma Srivastava, Uttama Lahiri, and Anirban Dutta. "Feasibility of combining functional near-infrared spectroscopy with electroencephalography to identify chronic stroke responders to cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation—a computational modeling and portable neuroimaging methodological study." The Cerebellum (2021), doi: 10.1007/s12311-021-01249-4

J.10 Cay, Gozde, Dhaval Solanki, Md Abdullah Al Rumon, Vignesh Ravichandran, Laurie Hoffman, Abbot Laptook, James Padbury, Amy L. Salisbury, and Kunal Mankodiya. "NeoWear: An IoT-connected e-textile wearable for neonatal medical monitoring." Pervasive and Mobile Computing (2022): 101679.

Conference Publications

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C.1 Solanki, Dhaval; Kumar, Siddhant; B., Shubha and Lahiri, Uttama, “Understanding implications of adaptive and progressive physiology-sensitive exercise on gait and physiological performance of patients with neurological disorder”, in the International Conference on Neurological Disorders and Therapeutics (ICNDT 2019), National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Ahmedabad, IN, Oct. 24-26, 2019.

C.2 Solanki, Dhaval; Kumar, Siddhant and Lahiri, Uttama; “Body weight support assisted virtual reality based treadmill walk with gait characterization”, in the IEEE 10th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT 2019), IIT Kanpur, IN, Jul. 6-8, 2019.

C.3 Solanki, Dhaval; Kumar, Siddhant and Lahiri, Uttama, “Computer-based treadmill-assisted gait rehabilitation platform augmented with body weight support and gait quantification”, in the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME-2019), Shanghai, CN, Jul. 8-12, 2019 [Accepted].

C.4 Solanki, Dhaval; Das, Abhijit and Lahiri, Uttama; "A step towards design and validation of portable, cost-effective device for gait characterization", in the 17th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2018), Singapore, SG, Jun. 6-8, 2018.

C.5 Solanki, Dhaval; Jain, Ritika; Lahiri, Uttama; “Understanding Implication of VR-assisted Treadmill Walk on Gait-related Indices”, Eighth IEEE International Conference On Computing, Communication And Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), 2017.

C.6 Dhiman, Ashish, Solanki, Dhaval, Bhasin, A., Bhise, Anjali, Das, Abhijit., & Lahiri, Uttama. “Design of adaptive haptic-enabled virtual reality based system for upper limb movement disorders: a usability study”. Sixth IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) (pp. 1254-1259). 2016.

C.7 Saurav, Kumar; Dash, Adyasha; Solanki, Dhaval and Lahiri, Uttama, "Design of a VR-based upper limb gross motor and fine motor task platform for post-stroke survivors", in the 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science(ICIS 2018), Singapore, SG, Jun. 6-8, 2018.

C.8 Babu, Pradeep Raj Krishnappa; Sinha, Sujata; S., Arvind Roshaan; Solanki, Dhaval and Lahiri, Uttama, "Design of Virtual Reality based Intelligent Story-telling Platform with Human Computer Interaction", in the 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2018), Singapore, SG, Jun. 6-8, 2018.

C.9 Solanki, Dhaval, Poojan Oza, and Uttama Lahiri. "Towards a wearable non-invasive low-cost device for Measuring Physiological Indices." 2015 IEEE Region 10 Symposium. IEEE, 2015. 

C.10 Altekreeti, Afnan, Michaela Roberts, Dan Convey, Sarah Leighton, Madeline Setear, Gozde Cay, Dhaval Solanki, and Kunal Mankodiya. "NAPNEA: A Cost Effective Neonatal Apnea Detection System." In 2021 IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), pp. 113-114. IEEE, 2021.

C.11 Cay, Gozde, Dhaval Solanki, Vignesh Ravichandran, Laurie Hoffman, Abbot Laptook, James Padbury, Amy L. Salisbury, and Kunal Mankodiya. "Baby-Guard: An IoT-based Neonatal Monitoring System Integrated with Smart Textiles." In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), pp. 129-136. IEEE, 2021.

C.12 Emma Lokey, Anna Cetera, Demetrios Petrou, Kellen Waters, Kunal Mankodiya, and Dhaval Solanki, “Development of Motor-assisted therapy bike for patients with Parkinson’s Disease”, 2022 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC). IEEE, 2022.

C.13 Kaitlyn R. Lum, Olivia J. Wojnilo, Kunal Mankodiya, and Dhaval Solanki, “SixthSense: A Wearable Ultrasonic System with Haptic Feedback for Visually Impaired Individuals”, 2022 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC). IEEE, 2022.

C.14 Dhaval Solanki, Gozde Cay, Md Abdullah al Rumon, Vignesh Ravichandran, Kunal Mankodiya, “A Step Towards Design and Validation of a Wearable Multi-Sensory Smart-Textile System for Respiration Monitoring”, IEEE Sensors, Oct 30-Nov 2, 2022.


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