October 2022
The MUSE Lab participated in the Symposium and Workshop on Medical Imaging @IISER Thiruvananthpuram from 20th – 22nd October. Eight posters were presented by our group members. Profs. Karla and Himanshu each gave an invited tutorial talk and an invited research talk. It was great to learn from talks on ultrasound, photoacoustics, CT, and MRI by distinguished academic, industry, and clinical researchers. Thanks to Prof. Mayanglambam Suheshkumar Singh for the invitation!
Congratulations to Dr. Abhijit Paul and Sapna Bisht from the MUSE Lab on both being awarded the 3rd prize for the best posters at this symposium!
October 2022
The MUSE Lab members enjoyed participating virtually at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium from 10th to 13th Oct. 2022. It was exciting to note the recent advancements in ultrasound research!
July 2022
The MUSE Lab is proud of our graduates and wishes them the best in their future endeavors!
July 2022
Prof. Debdoot Sheet (IIT Kharagpur) and Mr. Bhat Dittakavi (CEO, AI4ICPS, IIT KGP) visits the MUSE Lab. We look forward to collaborations between IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Kharagpur!
July 2022
The MUSE Lab had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Ratan Saha from the Biomedical Imaging Lab at IIIT Allahabad. Prof. Saha gave a wonderful talk on Photoacoustics at the Centre for BME seminar series. Looking forward to more exciting collaborative work with Prof. Saha’s group!
July 2022
Hair Nair defends his M.Tech. thesis entitled “Ultrafast Doppler ultrasound for assessing blood perfusion in the foot: A feasibility study”. Congratulations Hari!
June 2022
Dr. Nishita Mistry (Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay), Dr. Abhishek Jha (Ph.D., Life Sciences, Indra Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi), and Dr. Jayashree Karmakar (Ph.D., Physics, NIT Durgapur) join the MUSE Lab as Research Associates (Postdocs). Welcome to the team, Nishita, Abhishek, and Jayashree!
May 2022
Profs. Karla Mercado-Shekhar and Himanshu Shekhar were hosted for seminars at IIT Delhi by Prof. Biswarup Mukherjee. It was great to interact with his group (RISE Lab) and the faculty members at the Centre for Biomedical Engineering. Looking forward to more such interactions!
May 2022
Prof. Himanshu Shekhar shared our recent research efforts in a talk titled “Musings in biomedical ultrasound: Advancing cavitation-mediated therapy, image guidance, and monitoring” on 28th April 2022, organized by IEEE Kharagpur Section EMBS.
April 2022
Prof. Karla Mercado-Shekhar shared our recent efforts in advancing ultrasound for biotechnology and biomedical applications at the PRABODH (Promoting Research Awareness in Biotechnology for Development of Human Resources) event of the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Center.
March 2022
Profs. Himanshu Shekhar and Karla Mercado-Shekhar were Chairs of the Student and Young Professionals (YPs) Activities Committee at the IEEE International Symposium in Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2022 that was held in Kolkata, India from 28-31 March. Ph.D. students Sapna Bisht and Ruchika Dhawan participated as conference volunteers. Activities included Speed Networking, Lunch with Leaders, Career Date Meeting, Manuscript Writing from ISBI to Transactions, Grant Writing, and Imaging Careers for Biomedical Engineers. Overall, all the events were well-attended and gave students and YPs the opportunity to forge networks for advancing their careers.
March 2022
At the IEEE International Symposium in Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2022, MUSE Lab members had the pleasure of meeting Prof. Elisa Konafagou, the Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology (Physics), Columbia University, New York, USA, who was a plenary speaker for the event. Left to right: Prof. Himanshu Shekhar, Sapna Bisht, Prof. Elisa Konafagou, Prof. Karla Mercado-Shekhar, and Ruchika Dhawan.
March 2022
Profs. Himanshu Shekhar and Karla Mercado-Shekhar has been appointed as members of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). Their term duration is 3 years.
March 2022
Prof. Karla Mercado-Shekhar helped conduct the IEEE Reviewer Training Workshop along with Prof. Alfred Yu, Editor-in-Chief of the journal IEEE Transactions in Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (T-UFFC), and Dr. Changting Xu, IEEE Young Professionals Committee.
February 2022
Congratulations to Manita Das, Ph.D. from the MUSE Lab for receiving the Department of Biotechnology Research Associate Fellowship! Manita is one of 37 recipients nationally. Manita has a background in Chemistry and plans to work on ultrasound-mediated therapeutics.
January 2022
Congratulations to Prof. Himanshu Shekhar for being recognized as an Expertscape Expert in “Contrast Media”! With this, he has been rated as within 1% of world experts in the field.
January 2022
The MUSE Lab has been awarded the Start-up Research Grant from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) to pursue research on developing duplex shear wave elasticity imaging and ultrafast Doppler ultrasound for potential application in kidney implant monitoring for the next 2 years. Prof. Karla is the PI for this work, and she will collaborate with Prof. Prachi Thareja (Soft Matter Rheology Lab at IIT Gandhinagar).
