Biosensing and biorobotics laboratory

AMEY JOSHI

Graduate Student

PhD

University of Minnesota, Mechanical Engineering (2023)

MS

University of Minnesota, Mechanical Engineering (2020)

BTech

National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India, Mechanical Engineering (2017)

Biosketch

Amey received his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India, in 2017. After working at Tata Motors for one year after his undergraduate studies, he joined the Biosensing and Biorobotics Laboratory where he completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and is working on his Ph.D. by developing a robotic platform for automated microinjection of drosophila embryos, which he hopes to eventually apply to other microorganisms such as zebrafish and C. elegans.

Publications

Amey S. Joshi, Andrew D. Alegria, Benjamin Auch, Kanav Khosla, Jorge Blanco Mendana, Kunpeng Liu, John Bischof, Daryl M. Gohl, and Suhasa B. Kodandaramaiah, “Multiscale, multi-perspective imaging assisted robotic microinjection of 3D biological structures”, 2021, 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine Biological Society (EMBC), pages 4844-485, nov 2021 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9630858

Andrew Alegria*, Amey Joshi*, Benjamin Auch, Daryl M. Gohl, Suhasa B. Kodandaramaiah, (2020, April). Computer vision and machine learning algorithms for controlling an image-guided robotic microinjector. TAGC 2020. *Equal contribution

US Provisinal Patent: Amey S. Joshi, Andrew A Alegria, Benjamin Auch, Daryl M. Gohl, Suhasa B. Kodandaramaiah, ”Multi-perspective microscopic imaging guided microinjection of microscopic objects across large field of views”, US Provisional patent, 63/200, 721, 2021-061, 1008-310USP1

A. Alegria*, A. Joshi*, J. O’Brien*, and S. B. Kodandaramaiah, “Single neuron recording: progress towards high-throughput analysis” Bioelectron. Med., pp. 3–6, 2020 *Equal Contribution

J. Hu*, J. O’Brien*, A. S. Joshi*, Z. S. Navabi*, A. D. Alegria*, and S. B. Kodandaramaiah, “Automated Device for Public Elevator Control Panel UVC Sanitization,” Apr. 2021, DOI: 10.1115/DMD2021-1041. *Equal Contribution

HOnors and awards

2021, 2020 Council of Graduate Students, Conference Grants

2021 UMII MnDRIVE PhD Fellowship, UMN

2021 2nd Place, Poster Presentation, Institute of Engineering in Medicine, Annual Conference

2021 1st Place, 3MT: Three Minute Thesis Competition, Mechanical Engineering Department, UMN

2021 People's Choice Award. 3MT: Three Minute Thesis Competition, College of Science and Engineering, UMN

2020 Council of Graduate Students, Conference Travel Award

2017 TEQIP Scholarship to pursue a research internship in the United States given by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

2013-17 Merit Research Fellows, NITK (2013-2017)

Presentations

“Robots to Accelerate Biological Research”, 3 Minute Thesis, Mech. Eng. Dpt. Video Link, Amey starts at 23:20.

’Automated microinjection robotic platform for zebrafish embryos' poster presentation, Institute for Engineering in Medicine, 2021 Annual Conference

’Automated microinjection system for organisms’ poster presentation, Institute for Engineering in Medicine, 2020 Annual Conference