Currently, I am pursuing lab rotation as a part of the curriculum in Dr. Gabor Balazsi’s lab which deals with Gene circuits and the computational modeling of gene regulatory networks. I am studying the cloning process of plasmids which can be used further for various experiments. In the previous semester, I pursued a lab rotation in Dr. Yi-Xian Qin’s (Orthopaedic Bioengineering) lab. The research work I was involved in is the study of Photoacoustic Imaging of the eye which is a non-invasive imaging technique used in cases of blindness and visual impairment. The objective is to study the imaging technique in detail with respect to the eye and apply the same to cartilage.

Previously in my undergraduate studies, as a part of my final project, I worked on a project called “Design and Development of low-cost Spirometer with PC interface (LabVIEW)” used to assess the spirometer parameters and spirograms. The prototype consists of hardware mainly the pressure sensor which measured the air-pressure difference using Hagen-Poiseuille’s law and a microprocessor that processed data into digital data. The LabVIEW software analyzed data giving out spirometric data and spirograms.

The following picture is the design setup of the Spirometer