December 2023
Celebrating 2023 in our last lab outing of this fruitful year. Wishing you all a Happy Holidays from the MUSE Lab @ IIT Gandhinagar!
October 2023
We are thrilled to announce that Jagruti M. Patil and Manu K S have both been awarded the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship. Jagruti is a PhD student in the Department of Biological Sciences and Engineering and is working with me. Manu is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Many congratulations to Jagruti and Manu! We are excited about the research that they will perform in their doctoral journey.
September 2023
Postdocs from the Medical Ultrasound Engineering (MUSE) Lab presented 3 posters at the Postdoctoral Research Symposium held on 22nd September at IIT Gandhinagar. They presented exciting work on shear wave elastography, flow Imaging, and ultrasound-mediated drug delivery.
From left: Dr. Jayashree Karmakar, Dr. Nishita Mistry, and Dr. Abhijit Paul.
September 2023
The MUSE Lab participated in the 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) held in Montreal, Canada on 3rd-8th September. Five (5) posters were presented by the MUSE Lab. The research presented focused on ultrasound shear wave viscoelastography, quantitative ultrasound for tissue characterization, image-guided histotripsy, and development of viscoelastic tissue-mimicking phantoms.
Prof. Himanshu and Sapna Bisht, a PhD student, attended in person. Jagruti Patil, a PhD student, attended virtually. Hari Nair, a former MTech student from the MUSE Lab, who is now a PhD student at the University of Montreal, also attended in person.
Prof. Himanshu was one of the two panelists (along with Libertario Demi PhD) for the “New Faculty Tips” session. He was also was one of the judges for the Student Pitch Competition. Prof. Himanshu co-chaired an “Image-Guided Theranostics” session with Prof. Geoffrey Luke (Dartmouth) and helped organize the Mentorship Luncheon.
Prof. Karla was involved in the planning of the Young Professionals sessions.
August 2023
Manik Kakkar, a former Master’s student and Sabarmati Bridge Fellow, joined the PhD program at the Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Manik will be working with Dr. Muyinati Bell at the Photoacoustic and Ultrasound System Engineering (PULSE) Lab for his doctoral work.
Best wishes to Manik!
July 2023
Many congratulations to our 4 graduates from the MUSE Lab: Mekdes Wubet, Bhanu Prasad Marri, and Surabhi Menon for their Master’s degrees, and Sanjay Venkitesh for his B.Tech. degree!
Mekdes was selected for the Ph.D. program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, U.S.A.
Bhanu joined Optimized Solutions Limited, Ahmedabad.
Surabhi continued working in the MUSE Lab as a Sabaramati Bridge Fellow.
Sanjay was selected for the graduate program in Georgia Tech, USA.
Best wishes to all of them!
July 2023
July 2023
Congratulations to Sapna Bisht, a Ph.D. candidate in the MUSE Lab, for winning the Best Poster Award in Biological Engineering at the 2023 Ph.D. Research Showcase at IIT Gandhinagar!! Sapna’s research is on ultrasound elastography.
July 2023
Prof. Karla was invited to give a guest seminar to the IEEE Computer Society Student Branch Chapter at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.
July 2023
Prof. Karla delivered an invited talk on July 17, 2023, at the workshop on Applications of AI/ML in Biomedical Signal Processing and Computer Vision at the Pandit Deendayal Energy University- PDEU, sponsored by the Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST) and the Soft Computing Research Society. Thanks to the Department of ICT, PDEU for the invitation.
June 2023
The MUSE Lab had the pleasure of hosting Nujhat Shekh and Prachi Pandit, who completed their summer undergraduate research internship, which was supported by the Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission. We also welcome Aqib Mir, a Master’s student, who has begun his summer internship as part of the AICTE J&K internship program.
June 2023
Prof. Karla, Prof. Himanshu, Dr. Nishita Mistry, and Sapna Bisht had a fruitful visit to the National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar. Thanks to our collaborator,Prof. Bhoomika Patel and Nandini Gupta, a Ph.D student in her lab, for hosting and showing us the exciting work at the university!
May 2023
Prof. Karla Mercado-Shekhar and Vishwas Trivedi gave talks on the research efforts of the MUSE Lab at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) on 15th May. Many thanks to Prof. Mikhail Shapiro and Dr. Rohit Nayak for hosting and showing them the fascinating work going on in the Shapiro Lab!
May 2023
Prof. Karla Mercado-Shekhar, Vishwas Trivedi, and Dr. Anuj Kaushik participated in the 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Chicago, Illinois, USA from 8th-12th May. Our group gave 3 lecture presentations on 1) H-scan imaging for tumor identification (Manik Kakkar’s work), 2) contrast-enhanced imaging of histotripsy bubble clouds (Vishwa Trivedi’s work), and 3) characterization of the temporal response of contrast agents (Anuj Kaushik’s work).
Prof. Karla Mercado-Shekhar also chaired one of the Biomedical Acoustics sessions titled “General Topics in Biomedical Acoustics: Bubbles and more,” which was held on 12th May and had 18 talks.
April 2023
Prof. Himanshu Shekhar attended the International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound in Lyon, France on April 17-20. Our group had 2 posters on sonodynamic therapy and cavitation image guidance. He also visited LABTAU (Laboratory for Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound), INSERM.
March 2023
The MUSE Lab was delighted to partner with the Photonics Sensors Lab and the Nanoplasmonics Research Lab at IIT Gandhinagar to co-organize a workshop on “Photonics for Health, Atmosphere, Safety, and Education (PHASE), which was held on 30-31 March. This workshop was sponsored by the Distinguished International Associate (DIA) program of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK.
March 2023
Profs. Himanshu and Karla organized a day-long workshop on “Effective Scientific Research Communication” at IIT Gandhinagar. Nearly 100 Masters and PhD students, and Postdoctoral Fellows from institutions around Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad participated in the workshop. This workshop was provided tips on writing manuscripts and grant proposals, responding to peer review, and making and delivering oral and poster presentations. This workshop was supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board.
February 2023
The MUSE Lab presented 5 posters at the Postdoctoral Research Symposium held at IIT Gandhinagar. They presented exciting work on diverse topics: Sonodynamic Therapy, Ultrasound-Mediated Therapeutic Delivery, Shear Wave Elastography, Flow Imaging, and Acoustic Droplet Vaporization.
Clockwise from left: Dr. Manita Das (DBT-RA), Dr. Nishita Mistry, Dr. Jayashree Karmakar, Dr. Abhishek Jha, Dr. Abhijit Paul
January 2023
The MUSE Lab was delighted to host Prof. Nitish Thakor (Professor of BME, ECE, and Neurology, Johns Hopkins University) this week. He toured the MUSE Lab facilities and shared his wonderful insights with the trainees. We look forward to our continued research collaboration!
January 2023
We were delighted to host Prof. Mark Borden from the University of Colorado (Boulder) at IIT Gandhinagar for a workshop on “Microbubbles for Drug Delivery and Ultrasonic Imaging” that was held on Jan. 12-13, 2023. We look forward to holding this workshop again next year!
