Projects & Research

High-performance analog front-end electronics for ultrasound acquisition — optimizing the signal chain from transducer through digitization for low-noise, high-dynamic-range imaging.

Additive-manufactured acoustic masks for beam shaping — enabling novel apodization profiles and custom transducer aperture configurations beyond conventional element layouts.

Conformable flexible array designs for imaging curved anatomical surfaces — enabling hands-free continuous monitoring and ergonomic wearable ultrasound.

Systematic characterization of transducer bandwidth, sensitivity, and beam profiles — forming the measurement foundation for hardware-software co-design and calibration.

Specular beamforming, adaptive beamformers for improved contrast and resolution, and reconfigurable beamforming architectures for high frame-rate plane wave imaging.

Deep learning-based acceleration of computationally intensive adaptive beamformers — enabling high-quality imaging at real-time frame rates on edge hardware.

Multi-perspective compounding and volumetric reconstruction from 2D array data — enabling full 3D visualization of anatomy for improved spatial situational awareness.

Wavefront distortion correction for imaging through heterogeneous tissue layers — restoring focus quality and spatial resolution degraded by near-field aberrators.

End-to-end AI pipeline for lung ultrasound analysis — automated B-line detection, A/B pattern classification, and scoring for COVID-19 and ILD diagnosis at point of care.

Real-time needle visualization for ultrasound-guided interventional procedures — improving precision in biopsies, nerve blocks, and regional anaesthesia via enhanced echogenicity.

High-resolution musculoskeletal ultrasound for sports medicine, injury assessment, and rehabilitation monitoring — characterizing muscle architecture and tendon integrity.

Acoustic sensing of muscle deformation and activity for human-machine interfaces — enabling intuitive prosthetic control and gesture recognition from ultrasound tissue motion.

Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) with microbubble tracking for imaging microvasculature at resolution beyond the acoustic diffraction limit — mapping capillary-scale blood flow.

Real-time implementation of beamforming and image processing pipelines on FPGA and ARM SoC platforms — achieving clinical frame rates in portable, low-power form factors.

System-level ultrasound simulations using k-Wave and custom frameworks — modeling wave propagation, attenuation, scattering, and non-linear effects for algorithm development and validation.

Custom fabricated tissue-mimicking phantoms for imaging system validation — matching acoustic properties (speed of sound, attenuation, backscatter) of biological tissues for repeatable testing.

Acoustic lens design and pressure field modeling for focused ultrasound applications — optimizing focal depth, side-lobe suppression, and pressure distribution in HIFU and imaging probes.