December 2021
Bhanu Prasad Marri and Mekdes Wubet, M.Tech. students in Biological Engineering, join the MUSE Lab. Mekdes comes from Ethiopia and is the first international student in the lab. Welcome to the team, Bhanu and Mekdes!
November 2021
Dr. Manita Das joins the MUSE Lab as a Research Associate. Welcome to the team, Manita!
September 2021
Dr. Abhijit Paul joins the MUSE Lab as a Research Associate. Welcome to the team, Abhijit!
August 2021
Ruchika Dhawan, a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering, joins the MUSE Lab. Welcome to the team, Ruchika!
August 2021
Many congratulations to the alumni and current members of the MUSE Lab at IIT Gandhinagar, who received their degrees today: Ananya Sharma, Anushka Yadav, Kuldeep Jajoria, Jayishnu Roy, Pratibha, Boyapati Suresh, and Chandan Kumar Jha, PhD.
Special congratulations to Ananya Sharma for receiving the President’s Gold Medal and the Institute Gold Medal for her outstanding academic performance, and Chandan Kumar Jha, PhD for receiving the Gold Medal for Outstanding Innovation. Chandan was advised by Arup Lal Chakraborty for his Ph.D. thesis and is now working in the MUSE Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
August 2021
MUSE Lab members participated in the “Workshop on Recent Trends in Biomedical Imaging and Applications,” organized by the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad from August 19 – 21, 2021.
Abhishek M.S., a B.Tech. final-year student from IIT Palakkad, worked at the MUSE Lab for his summer research internship, and received the Third Prize for Best Student Presentation at the workshop. The following are the details of Abhishek’s presentation: Abhishek M.S., Anuj Kaushik, and Himanshu Shekhar, “Effect of Red Blood Cell Aggregation on Photoacoustic Spectrum – An in silico study.”
Prof. Himanshu Shekhar gave an invited talk on contrast-enhanced and molecular ultrasound imaging. Prof. Karla Mercado-Shekhar served on the panel of judges for the workshop.
August 2021
Jagruti Patil joins the MUSE Lab as a Junior Research Fellow. Welcome to the team, Jagruti!
July 2021
Profs. Himanshu Shekhar, Sameer Dalvi, and Karla Mercado-Shekhar conducted the Virtual Workshop on “Ultrasound Contrast Agents: Application of Gas-filled Microbubbles in Biomedical Engineering” on July 22 – 23, 2021 at IIT Gandhinagar.
Prof. Mark Borden (University of Colorado Boulder), Prof. Mohan Edirisinghe (University College London), and Prof. Kenneth Bader (University of Chicago) participated as international speakers.
The workshop was supported by the Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission. 79 participants attended from the Indian subcontinent, Europe, and North America.
July 2021
Ananya Sharma was invited as an alumni speaker at the inaugural session of Aarohan 2021, an intensive foundation program for post-graduate students at IIT Gandhinagar. Ananya will pursue her Ph.D. studies at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. The video recording of the inaugural session can be viewed using this link.
July 2021
Ananya Sharma, Anushka Yadav, Jayishnu Roy, Kuldeep Jajoria, and Suresh Boyapati successfully defended their M.Tech. theses. Congratulations and wishing you the best on your future endeavors!
June 2021
Members of the MUSE Lab delivered the 6 research talks at the 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America – Acoustics in Focus, which was held virtually from 8th – 10th June 2021. The talks were well-received by the audience. Members of the MUSE Lab are highlighted in bold below:
1. Ananya Sharma, Sai Geetha Marapureddy, Sapna R. Bisht, Prachi Thareja, and Karla P. Mercado-Shekhar. “Viscoelastic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) phantoms for ultrasound elastography.”
2. Anushka Yadav, Vishwas Trivedi, and Karla P. Mercado-Shekhar. “Evaluation of H-scan imaging in phantoms and ex vivo tissue.”
3. Chandan K. Jha, Kuldeep Jajoria, Arup L. Chakraborty, and Himanshu Shekhar. “A fiber Bragg grating-based optical probe to detect MHz-frequency ultrasound.”
4. Emily Wallach, Himanshu Shekhar, and Kenneth Bader, “Assessment of Histotripsy Bubble Cloud Echogenicity with Chirp-Coded Excitation.”
5. Suresh Boyapati, Aaqib Khan, Dipesh Shah, Sameer V. Dalvi, and Himanshu Shekhar. “Acoustic characterization and stability assessment of size-isolated protein-shelled microbubbles.”
6. Vagisha, Kenneth B. Bader, Himanshu Shekhar. “Self-demodulation revisited: Effect of nonlinear propagation on stable cavitation from ultrasound contrast agents.”
June 2021
Prof. Karla Mercado-Shekhar and Prof. Himanshu Shekhar chaired the Lightning Round Sessions “Advances in Ultrasound Imaging” (held on 9th June) and “Therapeutic Ultrasound” (held on 10th June), respectively, at the 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America – Acoustics in Focus. The “Advances in Ultrasound Imaging” session featured 14 talks and the “Therapeutic Ultrasound” session featured 18 talks from leading groups across the world.
June 2021
Anushka Bhawsinka, an undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, U.S.A., joins the MUSE Lab as part of the IITGN-Texas A&M summer internship program.
Hetvi Shastri, Vagisha, and Abhishek M.S. (a BTech student at IIT Palakkad) are working in the MUSE Lab as part of the Summer Research Internship Program (SRIP) at IIT Gandhinagar.
Manik, an M.Sc. student in Physics, joins the MUSE Lab as a Project Assistant.
Manu K.S. joins the MUSE Lab as a Junior Research Fellow on a project funded by the Department of Science and Technology, in collaboration with the BEES Lab at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.
Welcome to the team, Anushka, Abhishek, Manik, and Manu!
June 2021
Ananya Sharma, a second year M.Tech. student, delivered an oral presentation of her work at the 45th Annual International Symposium on Ultrasound Imaging and Tissue Characterization. The conference was held virtually and included technical sessions on tissue parameters, tissue elasticity, acoustic radiation force imaging, photoacoustics,
and imaging/robotics.
May 2021
Dr. Anuj Kaushik, a Postdoctoral Fellow, Akash Chandra, a Ph.D. student in Biological Engineering, and Vishwas Trivedi, a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering, join the MUSE Lab.
Welcome to the team, Anuj, Akash, and Vishwas!
April 2021
The MUSE Lab has been awarded the Research Support Scheme grant from the Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission (GSBTM) to pursue research on ultrasound-based techniques for oral cancer imaging for the next 3 years. This work is in collaboration with Nirma University, Gujarat University, and Bharat Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Surat.
March 2021
The MUSE Lab has been awarded the Biomedical Device and Technology Development grant from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) to pursue research on bimodal technologies for tumor delineation for the next 18 months. This work is in collaboration with the BEES Lab from the Indian Institute of Science and the National Institute for Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS).
March 2021
Karla and Himanshu are participating in the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (UFFC) Society’s Professional Networking & Mentoring Program as mentors. This program includes mentors and mentees from 17 countries. Himanshu is one of the five members of the organizing committee of this program.
March 2021
Ananya Sharma, a second year M.Tech. student, delivered an oral presentation of her work at the International Conference on Formulations in Food and Healthcare (ICFFH) 2021. The conference was held virtually and consisted of presenters from 24 institutions in 7 countries. The conference was organized by the University of Birmingham, UK. IIT Gandhinagar was one of the partnering institutions.
February 2021
Prof. Himanshu Shekhar presented an invited talk titled “Contrast-enhanced and molecular imaging with ultrasound contrast agents” at the International Symposium on Medical Imaging in Clinical Environment organized by Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Nagpur.
February 2021
Prof. Himanshu Shekhar was awarded the Har Govind Khorana-Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. This award includes a 3-year fellowship and a research grant, which will enable Prof. Shekhar to pursue ultrasound-based approaches for treating breast cancer.
February 2021
Prof. Karla Mercado-Shekhar was featured by IndiaBioscience on her invited article describing her experience post-lockdown.
February 2021
Prof. Himanshu Shekhar was featured by IndiaBioscience on his invited article describing his experience in setting up a research laboratory.
January 2021
Prof. Himanshu Shekhar gave a virtual seminar on “Harnessing ultrasound and microbubbles for next generation imaging and therapy” at IIT Palakkad as a part of his IEEE UFFC Star Ambassador Lecture Series.
January 2021
Hari Nair and Vishwa Patel, M.Tech. students in Biological Engineering, join the MUSE Lab for pursuing their thesis research.
Mohammed Aasim Shaikh, B.Tech. student in Electrical Engineering, will work with us this semester for his EE399 course.