Hi, I am a PhD Student in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park. Currently I am working as a full time Graduate Research Assistant in Robotics, Automation, Manipulation and Sensing (RAMS) Laboratory, supervised by Professor Jaydev P. Desai.
EDUCATION
- Phd candidate, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park (Jan 2007 - present)
- M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Drexel University, GPA:
3.95/4.0 (Sep 2003 - Dec 2006)
- B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, National Institute
of Technology, Warangal, India, First Class with Distinction (Sep 1998
- June 2002)
RESEARCH
- Current
- Characterized the mechanical property of mouse embryonic stem cells.
- Developed a haptics-enabled atomic force microscopy (AFM) system that can be used to manipulate an individual cell.
- Previous
- Devised polypyyrrole based hexagonal microgripper for holding an individual biological cell.
- Established an automated cell injection system with force feedback capabilty and tested the system with 40 human subjects.
- Developed a force feedback interface which measures forces in the range of mN-µN and provides haptic display of the cell injection forces to the operator.
- Designed piezoresistive sensor circuit for an automated laparoscopic grasper which measures forces encountered in grasping/ probing a tissue.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Anand Pillarisetti, Carol Keefer, and Jaydev P. Desai, “Mechanical Characterization of Fixed Undifferentiated and Differentiating mESC, Second biennial IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics – BioRob, October 2008.
- Anand Pillarisetti, Carol Keefer, and Jaydev P. Desai, “Mechanical Response of Embryonic Stem Cells using Haptics-enabled Atomic Force Microscopy, 11th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Athens, Greece, 2008.
- Jaydev P. Desai, Anand Pillarisetti, and Ari D. Brooks, "Engineering Approaches to Biomanipulation", Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, 9, pp. 35-53, 2007.
- Anand Pillarisetti, Maxim Pekarev, Ari D. Brooks, and Jaydev P. Desai, "Evaluating the Effect of Force Feedback in Cell Injection". IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 4(3): pp. 322-331, 2007.
- Anand Pillarisetti, Edward Steager, Maxim Pekarev, Ari D. Brooks, and Jaydev P. Desai, "Micro Robotic Gripper for Cell Manipulation", 10th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2006.
- Anand Pillarisetti, Maxim Pekarev, Ari D. Brooks, Jaydev P. Desai, "Evaluating the Role of Force Feedback for Biomanipulation Tasks", 14th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Arlington,Virginia, USA, 2006.
- Anand Pillarisetti, Waqas Anjum, Jaydev P.Desai, Gary Friedman and Ari D.Brooks, "Force Feedback Interface for Cell Injection" , World Haptics Conference, Pisa, Italy, 2005.