Team

News


  • Ms. Aneri Bhuptani joined as a junior research fellow in September 2024
  • Mr. Arpeet Dhal was promoted to junior research fellow in September 2024.
  • Dr.  Teja Krishna Mamidi joined as a postdoctoral fellow in October 2023.

Faculty

Vineet Vashista

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Center for Cognitive Science, & Bio-medical Center, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

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Students & Staff

Teja Krishna Mamidi

Post-doctoral Fellow (Oct. 2023)

He is currently working on the design and development of cable-driven lower-limb exosuits.

Pratik Prajapati

Research Associate I (Sept. 2024), Ph.D. (2019-2024), M. Tech (2017-2019)

His research interests include aerial robotics and human-robot interactions.

Randheer Singh

Ph.D. (July 2020)

He is currently developing musculoskeletal models to study the impact of external dynamics on humans impedance.

Syed Mohammad Faraz

Ph.D. (Dec. 2022)

He is developing virtual reality-based training and assessment paradigms for rehabilitation.

Rhitosparsha Baishya

Ph.D. (July 2023)

He is developing wearable sensors for gait events detection and classification.

Jenishkumar Chauhan

Ph.D. (Aug. 2024), M. Tech (2023-2024)

He is developing an upper limb exoskeleton and predictive musculoskeletal simulation framework to control it.

Dharmesh Makvana

Ph.D. (July 2024)

He is exploring the field of human-robot interactions with aerial robots.

Chetan Sharma

Ph.D. (July 2024)

He is working on the design and development of wearable robots for knee and elbow joints.

Aleena Vettiyadan

M.Sc., Cognitive Science (July 2023)

She is working on extracting relevant gait parameters for rehabilitation from wearable sensors.

Shreya Gakhar

M.Sc., Cognitive Science (July 2023)

She is investigating gait balance and recovery with the help of augmented and virtual reality and the neural activity measured using EEG.

Shrinithi S.

M.Sc., Cognitive Science (July 2023)

She studies emotional cognition using navarasa stimuli and plans to develop an ML-based algorithm to recognize emotions from EEG signals.

Aneri Bhuptani

Junior Research Fellow (Sept. 2024)

She is developing algorithms to extract kinematic parameters using wearable sensors.

Ronak Vyas

Research Assistant (Aug. 2024), Research Intern (2022-2024)

He is studying the impact of a passive back exoskeleton on reducing fatigue during manual material handling activities. 

Arpeet Dhal

Junior Research Fellow (Aug. 2024), Research Intern (2023-2024)

He is investigating the viability of hybrid actuation paradigms in lower limb and back exoskeletons.

Alumni

Name

Lab Affiliation

Current Affiliation

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Gayatri Nerpagar

2023 – 2024: Sabarmati Bridge Research Fellow, Cognitive Science

2021 – 2023: Master of Science, Cognitive Science

Doctoral Scholar, University of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg

Dhyey Mistry

2023 – 2024: Research Assistant

Master of Science, Robotics, Northeastern University, Boston

Dhyey Shah

2023 – 2024: Junior Research Fellow

2022 – 2023: Research Intern

Master of Science, Robotics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Akshayraj B. Shinde

2020 – 2024: Project Associate

Master of Science, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa

Rishab Kumar

2022 – 2024: Master of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

Junior Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai

Yogesh Singh

2018 – 2023: Doctoral Scholar, Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Professor, School of Artificial Intelligence, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru

Siddharth Bhardwaj

2020 – 2023: Postdoctoral Fellow

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore

Smriti Saini

2021 – 2023: Master of Science, Cognitive Science

Doctoral Scholar, Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

N. S. S. Sanjeevi

2022 – 2023: Associate Research Fellow

2017 – 2022: Doctoral Scholar, Mechanical Engineering

2015 – 2017: Master of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Mahindra University, Hyderabad

Vamsi Jonnalagadda

2022 – 2022: Project Assistant

Automation Intern, Parker Hannifin, Kearney, Nebraska

Vikram Negi

2021 – 2022: Project Assistant

2019 – 2021: Master of Science, Cognitive Science

Graduate Student Researcher, University of Wollongong, New South Wales

Chinmay Jategaonkar

2019 – 2021: Master of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

Engineer, Eaton, Pune

Sagar Parekh

2019 – 2021: Project Assistant

Doctoral Scholar, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg

Vinay Rodrigues

2019 – 2020: Project Assistant

Research Fellow, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa

Azba Shaikh

2017 – 2019: Master of Science, Cognitive Science

Doctoral Scholar, Rehabilitation Science, McGill University, Montreal

Saurabh Lanje

2016 – 2019: Master of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

Scientist D, ISRO Satellite Center, Bengalure

Joel V. Joseph

2017 – 2019: Master of Science, Cognitive Science

SDE-II, Noviga.tech, Pune

Srikesh Iyer

2017 – 2019: Master of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

Master Teacher, Oda Class, Bengaluru

Prankur Saxena

2017 – 2019: Master of Science, Cognitive Science

Doctoral Scholar, Center for Nueroscience, Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru

Nevilkumar Panchal

2016 – 2018: Master of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

Senior Assistant Manager – R&D Design, Omori India Pvt. Ltd., Vadodara

Mitta Viswanath

2014 – 2018: Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Manager, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Bellary

Aniket Mazumder

2015 – 2017: Master of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

Research Technician, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Manan P. Anjaria

2017 – 2018: Project Assistant

Research Engineer, Kessler Foundation, New Jersey