Soft Robotic Medical Devices and Implants

New paper: Published today in Advanced Science, we describe an AI-powered computational framework for accelerated patient-specific modeling of hemodynamics of aortic stenosis from CT scans. (December 12, 2024)

New paper: Collaborative computational study exploring the interactions between hematocrit concentration and shape asymmetry in atherosclerosis published in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. Preliminary discussions about this work began less than a year ago when Prof. Antarip Poddar invited me to IIT Dhanbad for a guest lecture! (October 2, 2024)

It was my great honor to speak at the Special Early Career Session of the ASME IDETC Mechanisms & Robotics Conference, where I shared some of our recent work on multimodal implantable soft robotic actuators. Many thanks to Prof. Sree Kalyan Patiballa and Prof. Jared Butler for the invitation. (Washington, D.C. - August 27, 2024)

New paper from our group reviewing the use of 3D printing in diagnosis and management of heart failure is out now! (June 21, 2024)

I was a guest speaker at the University of Akron Integrated Biosciences Seminar and discussed soft robotics as a platform for biomedical engineering research. Many thanks to Prof. Christie Zhang for the invitation and Prof. Hossein Ravanbakhsh for hosting! (Akron, OH - May 3, 2024)

I presented an invited talk at the Iowa State University Department of Mechanical Engineering Guest Seminar Series. Grateful to Prof. Soumik Sarkar for the invitation and hospitality! (Ames, IA - April 9, 2024)

It was an honor to participate as faculty at the 8th Annual Advances in Congenital Heart Disease Summit, Innovations in Heart Valve Reconstruction: A Master Class and deliver a tutorial lecture on Patient-specific benchtop and computational modeling in guiding repair or replacement options. (Lake Buena Vista, FL - February 22, 2024)

It was a great pleasure to deliver an invited seminar at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines). Many thanks to Prof. Antarip Poddar for hosting! (Dhanbad, India - December 8, 2023)

It was great fun speaking at the Mechanical Engineering Seminar of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on using mechanical engineering principles to design soft robots for bioengineering applications. Thanks to Prof. Koushik Viswanathan and Prof. Balachandra Suri for organizing my visit! (Bengaluru, India - November 24, 2023)

I delivered a guest lecture on soft robotics at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. Thanks to Prof. Anurup Datta for the kind invitation! (Hyderabad, India - November 22, 2023)

I have been appointed to the Executive Committee of the 6th IEEE International Flexible Electronics Technology Conference, to be held in Bologna, Italy from September 15-18, 2024, and will also be serving as Publicity Co-Chair. Paper submission link

I was an invited seminar speaker at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati. Many thanks to Prof. Daria Narmoneva for hosting! (Cincinnati, OH - October 20, 2023)

It was my distinct honor to have been invited to deliver the Fall 2023 Ahuja Distinguished Lecture in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University. (Columbus, OH - September 29, 2023)

I was an invited distinguished speaker at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Mechanical Engineering Fall 2023 seminar series. (Pittsburgh, PA - September 1, 2023)

I was a Session Chair and Organizing Committee member at the 5th IEEE International Flexible Electronics Technology Conference. (San Jose, CA - August 13-16, 2023)

Open positons! My new lab at the Cleveland Clinic is hiring at all levels. Please click here for more information on available positions.