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Abhilash
Pandya , Associate Professor: Contact Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering With Joint appointments in: Department of Bioengineering and Department of Surgery Directs: Computer
Assisted Robot Enhances Systems (CARES) Lab
At the Space Center in Houston,
Installing and testing research
software on NASA's Robot Arm
 | Work History: Summary
- 1986-1988,
Engineer, Virogen Inc. Developed Robotic Solutions and
Genetic-based test to Aids Virus Testing. Assisted with this startup
company.
- 1988-1998, Engineer, Location: NASA/Johnson Space Center, Lockheed Martin. Space Station Simulation, Robotics, Human Modeling at NASA's GRAF lab.
- 1998-2002,
Research Engineer, Neurosurgery Department, Detroit Medical Center,
Developed Image guidance, Robotics for Surgery. Supported
surgical cases.
- 2002- Present at the ECE department
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Education:- Certification
Scientific Computing,
Wayne State University
(Signal Processing/RC Circuit modeling, programming) - B.S. University of
Michigan, Dearborn, Mi. 1986
Major: Biochemistry (Genetic
Engineering),
Honors
with Distinction.
- B.S. Minor : Computer Information Systems (with >30 Core credits)
- Senior
Project: "Bioinformatics: Advanced Computing and Graphical User Interface Development
for Chemical Network Analysis"
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Contact
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Phone: |
+1-313-577-9921 |
| Fax: |
+1-313-577-1101 |
| Email: |
apandya@ece.eng.wayne.edu |
| Office: |
ENG 3129- Map |
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Classes/
Office Hours |
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- Office hours Winter 2013: Mondays 1-3.
- Or
by appointment through
email.
- My group meets every Friday at 1-2 in ENG 3556.
Current Classes Taught:
- ECE 3620 Microcomputers
(with 3 labs) – Assembly
and c programming of an
HC11 microcontroller for
sensor inputs and processing.
- ECE 3300 Introduction to Electrical Circuits- Electrical
quantities and waveforms; resistance and Ohm's law; networks and
Kirchhoff's laws; network equivalents; nodal and mesh analysis;
Thevenin's theorem and other network theorems. Sinusoidal steady-state
response. First- and second-order systems. Introduction to sinusoidal
steady-state response.
- ECE/BME 7400 Medical
Robotics and Systems-
An in-depth look at building
and programming medical
robots and image processing
and visualization for the
field of computer assisted
surgery. See
some of the group project
for this course on this
link.
- BE 2550 Numerical Methods with Matlab- ore
principles of computer programming and applications in design and
implementation of numerical methods to solve engineering problems (Winter 2011).
- New class upcoming: Introduction to Robotic Computing (Stay Tuned)
Summary
From
1986 to 1988 I worked as an Engineer for Virogen Inc. developing
solutions for a robotics-based AIDS blood testing system. From 1988 to
1998 (10 years), I worked at NASA Johnson Space Center's Graphics Research and Analysis Facility
under various Lockheed Martin contracts for NASA’s Flight Crew Support
Division doing work on Space Station Robotics, Astronaut suit
simulation, and the development of software for a fully-immersive
human-model-based Virtual Reality system for Space Station
applications.
From 1998 – 2002, Neurosurgery Department
(Harper Hospital) I helped developed and supported Image Guided Surgery
software for use in the operating room and lead a team of Engineers in
research on Robotic and Image Guided Neurosurgery.
Since 2002, I
have been at the ECE Department at Wayne first as an Assistant
Professor of Research and then on the tenure track (2005) researching
medical robot sensor integration, Raman for cancer detection, and
application of robotics to space and the military. I direct the CARES Laboratory in collaboration with the SSIM.
Currently, the CARES team works in collaboration with the Children’s
Hospital of Michigan (CHM), The Detroit Medical Center, NASA and the
Army on three main robotics related projects—Medical, Military and
Space robotics.
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