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Nikunj Arunkumar Bhagat
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Biological Sciences and Biosciences (joint appointment)
Research Interest
Neural & Bio-signal processing, Medical Instrumentation, Brain-machine interfaces, Functional Electrical Stimulation, and Rehabilitation Engineering
Office: 306, ACES Building
Department of Electrical Engineering (ACES building).
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur- 208016
UP.India
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 2017
M. Tech in Electrical Engineering, Indian Inst. of Tech. Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2011
B. E. in Electronics Engineering, Sardar Patel College of Engg., University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India, 2007
Selected Publications
N. Bhagat, G. Francisco, J. Contreras-Vidal, "A State-Space Control Approach for Tracking Isometric Grip Force during BMI enabled Neuromuscular Stimulation". IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 2023, vol. 53 Issue 6, pages 996 – 1005.
N. Bhagat, N. Yozbatiran, J. Sullivan, R. Paranjape, C. Losey, Z. Hernandez, Z. Keser, R. Grossman, G. Francisco, M. O’Malley, J. Contreras-Vidal, "Neural activity modulations and motor recovery following brain-exoskeleton interface mediated stroke rehabilitation," NeuroImage: Clinical, 2020, 28; 102502.
N. Bhagat, K. King, R. Ramdeo, A. Stein, C. Bouton, "Determining grasp selection from arm trajectories via deep learning to enable functional hand movement in tetraplegia", Bioelectron Med, 2020, 6; 17.
N. Bhagat and M. Ruppa, "Using Object Detection to Select Grasp Type & Control Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) for Hand Rehabilitation," 10th Int'l Conf. on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN), Noida, Delhi-NCR, India, 2023, pp.538-542.
N. Bhagat, A. Venkatakrishnan, B. Abibullaev, E. Artz, N. Yozbatiran, A. Blank, J. French, C. Karmonik, R. Grossman, M. OMalley, G. Francisco, and J. Contreras-Vidal, "Design and optimization of an EEG-based BMI to an upper-limb exoskeleton for stroke survivors," Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2016, vol. 10, no.122.
C. Bouton, N. Bhagat, S. Chandrasekaran, J. Herrero, N. Markowitz, E. Espinal, J. Kim, R. Ramdeo, J. Xu, M. Glasser, S. Bickel, A. Mehta, "Decoding Neural Activity in Sulcal and White Matter Areas of the Brain to Accurately Predict Individual Finger Movement and Tactile Stimuli of the Human Hand," Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021, vol. 15 (August).
J. Contreras-Vidal, N. Bhagat, J. Brantley, J. Cruz-Garza, Y. He, Q. Manley, S. Nakagome, K. Nathan, S. Tan, F. Zhu, & J. Pons, "Powered exoskeletons for bipedal locomotion after spinal cord injury," J Neural Eng., 2016, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 031001.