SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Aug 7: The Electronics Engineering department of IIT Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad held an expert talk on ‘AI and Wearable Electronics for Mass Health Care’.
Prof Deepak Joshi, associate professor, Centre for Biomedical Engineering, IIT Delhi, speaking as chief guest in the special session made the research scholars and faculty members of IIT ISM to know about the usage of various electronic gadgets in the health care sector, including e-shoes meant for the disabled persons and also equipment for the usage of people suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
Prof Joshi, who is also a joint faculty of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi is also working on an international project with the University of Zurich (Switzerland) to understand recovery patterns in Spinal cord injured patients.
Dr Joshi’s current research work combines experimental and computational techniques to understand the neural correlates during walking and balancing for the diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders.
He is also working on the development of assistive devices for stroke survivors, amputees, the elderly population and Parkinson’s patients.
IIT ISM official said that Dr Joshi is also an executive director of the School of International Bio-design (SIB) program of the Ministry of Biotechnology. He received his PhD in biomedical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and a postdoctoral from the University of Oregon, USA in Human Physiology.
He also worked at the National University of Singapore and Newcastle University, UK before joining IIT Delhi as a faculty. He has a technology transfer and a granted US patent to his credit. He is a passionate teacher and has received Teaching Excellence Award at IIT Delhi in 2017. He was also awarded the membership of the American Association of Advancement in Sciences in 2014. He was awarded a Centre for Excellence in Neurosurgery medical devices from the Indian Council of Medical Research.
