We bid farewell to our Post-Doc, Dr Abhishek Indoliya.

He will be joining as a Post-Doctoral fellow at Fujian Normal University, China. We wish him all the best for his future.

Department of Biological Sciences and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, organised a poster presentation for M.Tech. Second-year students and PhD students who were working on their Independent projects. This was a great opportunity for everyone to interact and gain an understanding of the wide variety of work being done in the department. It was an informative session.

Megha Mehta and Nidhi Yadav, first-year PhD candidates from our lab, presented their work from their independent projects.
Aman Rattan and Devyani Gupta, second-year MTech students from our lab, presented their work from their MTech theses.

The Indian Institute of Technology hosted the IEEE-UFFC Special Topics School on Waves and Transducers. A total of 35 participants and 6 instructors (including 9 international faculty and students from the Netherlands, the UK, Canada, the US, and Indonesia).

Day 0: A meet-and-greet event marked the start of the workshop, where participants had a chance to interact with one another and bond before the workshop began.

Day 1: Detailed lectures on Acoustic Wave Theory by Prof. Koen Van Dongen and Piezoelectric Materials by Prof. Sandy Cochran were delivered. The day concluded with a lecture by Dr Kajoli Krishnan Banerjee, providing insights into her experiences in industry research.

Day 2: Insightful lectures on Transducer Design and Fabrication by Dr Holly Lay and on CMUTs and PMUTs by Prof. Omer Oralkan were delivered. The concluding talk by Prof. Karla Mercado Shekhar shed light on the human side of science and engineering, drawing on lessons learned from her academic journey. This day marked the beginning of transducer fabrication by candidates attending the workshop.

Day 3: Lectures on Ultrasound Systems and Electronics by Dr Holly Lay and on Contrast Enhanced Imaging and Therapy by Prof. Himanshu Shekhar were delivered. Students were given tours of the MUSE Lab facilities, progress was made in their transducer fabrication process, and the day concluded with the gala dinner.

Day 4: More lectures on Simulating Transducers by Dr Holly Lay and Prof. Sandy Cochran and on Unconventional Application of Ultrasound by Omer Oralkan were delivered. Fabricated transducers were put to the test, and most of the 16 transducers worked! A visit to the Centre for Creative Learning at IITGN enlightened the students with the magic of science and mathematics!

Day 5: The final day of the IEEE-UFFC Special school on Waves and Transducers concluded with lectures on Waves in Heterogeneous Media by Prof. Koen Van Dongen and on Ultrasound Elastography by Prof. Karla Mercado Shekhar. Later, the students gave presentations about the testing of their self-made transducers, the characterisation results, and the lessons learned from the workshop. 

It was a wholesome experience to host people from across the world and come together based on Ultrasound!

We bid farewell to Dhiraj Kumar, who was a Project Associate II.

We wish him the best of everything on his new journey as a PhD student at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Thanks to the MUSE Lab members for a wonderful Teacher’s Day celebration! The students and research staff surprised us with an elaborate program filled with cakes, snacks, games, and trivia, along with a Ghibli-style collage. 

A very memorable evening, indeed!

Independence Day celebrations at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. Together, we celebrate all the moments. 

Happy Independence Day, Bharat!

Congratulations to Abhishek Dharvia, Mtech candidate in the MUSE Lab, for receiving the Best Poster award for his Master’s Thesis at the PG Research Showcase.

It was a pleasure to be hosted by Dr Kenneth Bader and the BADER Lab at the University of Chicago, where we had the opportunity to share research from our group. The amazing work being done in the BADER Lab, particularly in histotripsy image guidance.

Prof. Himanshu Shekhar, Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering department at IIT Gandhinagar, received the Frederick Lizzi Early Career award from the International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound. The award was presented to him on June 23, 2025, at the International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound in Banff, Canada.

In June 2025, we attended the International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) at Banff. It gave our group the opportunity to contribute to an oral presentation, an invited talk, an award talk, and five posters. It was a wonderful experience to connect with friends in the ultrasound research community.

IITGN Research Snip 3.28 showcased the work done in MUSE Lab, focusing on pennate muscles, a type of skeletal muscle that has its muscle fibres arranged at an angle (pennation angle) to the axis of the muscle, giving them a feather-like shape. Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography (SWE) is employed to quantify the effect of pennation on SWE imaging, helping to assess and validate ultrasound algorithms for muscle assessment.

Our Mtech graduate, Abhishek Dharvia, secured a position at Zydus Med-Tech division as a Management Trainee.
We are proud of him and wish him the best in all his future endeavours!

We had the opportunity to share our research from the MUSE Lab with the Department of Design and Manufacturing (DM) at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. We thank Prof. Manish Arora for inviting us to share our work and interact with the audience. It also gave us a chance to interact with Dr Kajoli Krishnan Banerjee and learnt about her vast experience in the field of ultrasound.

Jagruti M. Patil, a PhD candidate in the MUSE Lab, won the Best Poster Award in the Biomedical, Biological and Agricultural Sciences category at the Annual Prime Minister’s Research Fellows (PMRF) Symposium. It was held at IIT Hyderabad from March 16th to 17th, 2025.

Dr Himanshu Shekhar had the opportunity to participate virtually as an instructor in the workshop on Acoustic Wavefield Imaging, held at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Bucaramanga, Colombia. This workshop was supported by the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectronics and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S) and organised by Prof. Koen Van Dongen and Prof. Ana Ramirez.

Colab 2025; Industry open house was conducted at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, on 22nd February 2025. The MUSE Lab had the opportunity to participate in, connect with, and share our ultrasound projects with professionals. This event bridged the gap between academia and industry.

Akash Chandra, a PhD candidate from the MUSE Lab, won third prize in the Simply Speaking competition. This competition challenges the participant to describe their research in the simplest way possible. It was a great way to hone communication skills.

Akash Chandra, a PhD candidate from MUSE lab at IIT Gandhinagar, received the CIRE award from the Committee for International Research and Education (CIRE) of the Acoustical Society of America.