News

RISE Lab presents twin talks by Prof. Siddhartha Sikdar, Professor of Bioengineering and Shriniwas Patwardhan, Graduate student at George Mason University. The talks will focus on sonomyography or ultrasound-based control of bionic devices as a potential alternative to electromyography-based methods towards achieving intuitive control of bionic devices.

Venue: Lecture Hall Complex Room - 418, IIT Delhi (also through MS-Teams webinar)

Time and date: 6th Jan, 2023, 4pm (IST)

Click here to join the webinar on MS-Teams

Meeting ID: 473 026 638 925

Passcode: pgYm8w

 

Talk 1: Sonomyography for control of upper limb prostheses: current state and future directions

Prof. Siddhartha Sikdar

Director, Centre for Adaptive Systems of Brain-Body InteractionsProfessor, Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University

 

Talk 2: The role of multi-sensory feedback during prosthetic control

Shriniwas Patwardhan

PhD candidate, Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University

 

Siddhartha Sikdar

Bio:

Siddhartha Sikdar is currently a professor in the Department of Bioengineering at George Mason University. He is the Director of the Center for Adaptive Systems of Brain-Body Interactions (CASBBI). This transdisciplinary center includes faculty with expertise in engineering, neuroscience and rehabilitation. The vision for CASBBI is to improve the function and quality of life of individuals living with physical and psychosocial disability through research on mechanisms and modulation of complex adaptive systems underlying human movement and behavior.

Sikdar’s research group within CASBBI conducts translational research using imaging to investigate brain-body interactions in a number of clinical conditions of major public health significance, such as chronic pain, stroke, spinal cord injury, and amputation. The group uses state-of-the-art ultrasound and laser instrumentation for developing new ultrasound, optical, and hybrid imaging techniques, and assistive technologies. The group is currently investigating the novel use of wearable ultrasound sensors for sensing muscle activity and controlling external devices such as multi-articulated prosthetic hands and exoskeletons.

Sikdar earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington, Seattle in 2005. He received a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association. He has been a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Volgenau School of Engineering Rising Star Award, Mason’s Emerging Researcher/Scholar/Creator Award and was nominated for the Rising Star Faculty Award of the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia. His current research is funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense and the Veteran's Administration.

 

 

 

Shriniwas Patwardhan

Bio:

Shriniwas Patwardhan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Bioengineering at George Mason University. His research has been focused on quantifying the relative contributions of visual, haptic, and other feedback modalities when we use external biomechatronic devices such as prosthetic limbs. He was a Fellow in the National Science Foundations Research Traineeship Program at the Center for Adaptive Systems of Brain Body Interactions, where he worked in an interdisciplinary team to devise solutions to improve data-rich communication between persons with Parkinson's and their care team. He has presented his work at several international technical conferences such as the International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (2019, 2022), Society for Neuroscience (2019, 2022), Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (2021), etc.