About me

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Haptic Intelligence Department at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

I received my Ph.D. degree from Haptics Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India in July 2019. I received my BTech degree in electronics and instrumentation from Kakatiya University and the MTech degree in biomedical engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad in 2012 and 2014 respectively.

My Ph.D. dissertation is on implementing the psychophysical measures in the needle insertion simulation, specifically epidural anesthesia simulation. I have developed a prototype of “virtual reality based needle insertion simulator” for training novice anesthesiologists in epidural anesthesia with the implementation of psychophysics in the model. My research interests are haptics, psychophysics, healthcare and virtual reality.

My research focuses on utilising the haptic technology to help clinical trainees learn the medical procedures and improve their skill and thereby increase the patient safety. My long term goal is to improve the medical skill training by modfying the traditional training techniques in medical pracitices to advanced traning methods.