publications

Journal Publications

2022

1. Arif Mohd. Kamal, Tushar Sakorikar, Uttam M. Pal, Hardik J. Pandya, “Engineering Approaches for Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A Review”, IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 2022 (Early access) (Link)

2. VSN Sitaramgupta, V, Arjun B S, Uttam M. Pal, Hardik J. Pandya, “Design and Analysis of MEMS-Based Force Sensors for Catheter Contact Force Measurements”, IEEE Sensors, 2022. (Early access) (Link)

3. Twinkle Bagha, Arif Mohd Kamal, Uttam M. Pal, Prasanna Simha Mohan Rao, Hardik J. Pandya, "Toward the development of a polarimetric tool to diagnose the fibrotic human ventricular myocardium," J. Biomed. Opt., 27(5) 055001, 2022, doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.27.5.055001. (Open access) (Link)

4. Arif Mohd. Kamal, Uttam M. Pal, Adithya Kumar, Gunabhi Ram Das, Hardik J. Pandya, “Towards the development of a portable LED-based polarization spectroscopy tool for breast cancer diagnosis”, J. Biophotonics 2022, 15(3), e202100282, doi.org/10.1002/jbio.202100282 (Link)

2021

5. Uttam M. Pal, Ashika Nayak, Tejaswi Medisetti, Gayatri Gogoi, Himanshu Shekhar, M.S.N. Prasad, Jayant S. Vaidya, Hardik J. Pandya, “Hybrid Spectral-IRDx: Near-IR and Ultrasound Attenuation System for Differentiating Breast Cancer from Adjacent Normal Tissue", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 3554-3563, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2021.3077582.

6. Uttam M. Pal, Anil Vishnu GK, Manoj Varma, Jayant S. Vaidya, Hardik J. Pandya, "Thermo-Optic Measurements and their Inter-Dependencies for Breast Cancer Diagnosis", Journal of Biophotonics, 14 (8), e202100041, 2021, doi: 10.1002/jbio.202100041. 

7. Arif Mohd. Kamal, Uttam M. Pal, Ashika Nayak*, Tejaswi Medisetti*s, Arjun B.S., Gayatri Gogoi, Jayant S. Vaidya, Hardik J. Pandya, “Towards Development of LED-based Time-Domain Near-IR Spectroscopy System for Delineating Breast Cancer from Adjacent Normal Tissue”, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 21, no. 16, pp. 17758-17765, 2021, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3082850. 

2020

8. Uttam M. Pal, Mansi Saxena, Anil Vishnu G. K., Darshan Parsana, Sarvani B. S. R., Manoj Varma, Mahesh Jayachandra, Vishnu Kurpad, Deb Baruah, Gayatri Gogoi, Jayant S. Vaidya, and Hardik J. Pandya, “Optical spectroscopy-based imaging techniques for the diagnosis of breast cancer: A novel approach”, Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, 1-28, 2020, doi: 10.1080/05704928.2020.1749651

9. Uttam M. Pal, Anil Vishnu GK, Saeed Rila, Saahil Shroff, Gokul A M, Deb Baruah, Jayant S. Vaidya, Gayatri Gogoi, and Hardik J. Pandya, "Towards a Portable Platform Integrated with Multispectral Noncontact Probes for Delineating Normal and Breast Cancer Tissue Based on Near-Infrared Spectroscopy" in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 879-888, Aug. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TBCAS.2020.3005971.

Conference Publications

2022

1. Arif Mohd. Kamal, Uttam M. Pal, Manu K.S., Hardik J. Pandya, Towards the development of an intraoperative probe for breast cancer margin assessment, Optica Biophotonics Congress, 2022 (Accepted) 

2. Uttam M. Pal, Prajakta Sabnis, Numerically Mitigating the Challenges of Circularly-Oriented Source-Detector Diffuse Optical Imaging System, Optica Biophotonics Congress, 2022 (Accepted)

2021

3. Uttam M. Pal and Hardik J. Pandya, “Opto-thermo-acoustic studies for cancer diagnosis”, BRICS Workshop on Biophotonics, Russia, 2021. (Accepted)

4. Uttam M. Pal and Hardik J. Pandya, “Opto-thermo-acoustic studies for cancer diagnosis”, BRICS Workshop on Biophotonics, Russia, 2021. (Accepted)

5. Uttam M. Pal, Vaibhav Adhikar, Prajakta Sabnis, “Design of Concave-Microstructured Colour Filter Bio-inspired from Papilio Blumei”, Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science, 2021 (Accepted).

6. Uttam M. Pal, Arif Mohd Kamal, Ashika Nayak, Tejaswi Medisetti, Hardik J. Pandya, “Towards an Opto-Thermo-Acoustic (OTA) based Diagnostic Tool to Delineate Adjacent Normal from Cancerous Tissue for Cancer Margin Assessment”, in European Conferences on Biomedical Optics 2021 (ECBO), OSA Technical Digest, paper ETu4A.4, 2021.

7. Uttam M. Pal, A. M. Kamal, and Hardik. J. Pandya, "Opto-Acoustic Multimodal System to Delineate Adjacent Normal from Breast Biopsy Cancerous Tissue," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT) 2021, pp. 1-4, 2021.

8. R. Govindaraj, A. Sarkar, J. Rao, and Uttam Pal, "Comparison of Indoor Air Pollution in a Residence in Bangalore, India: A Weekday-Weekend Analysis," 2021 IEEE Bombay Section Signature Conference (IBSSC), 2021, pp. 1-4.

9. Arpita Sarkar, Jyotsna Rao J, Ranjitha Govindaraj, Uttam M. Pal, “Determinant Effects of using Toilet Cleaners on Indoor Air Quality”, IEEE CENTCON 2021, 2021 (Accepted).

10. Uttam M. Pal, Vishnu Kurpad, and Hardik J. Pandya, “A multi-functional portable system for diagnosing breast cancer from ex-vivo biopsy tissues”, The Breast 56, S86, 2021.

11. Uttam M. Pal and Hardik J. Pandya, “Design and development of Opto-Thermo-Acoustic (OTA) based measurement techniques to aid breast cancer diagnosis”, EECS Research Student Symposium IISc, 2021.

Prior to 2020

12. Uttam M. Pal, Prajakta Sabnis, Christopher Boucher, "Ranging and Obstruction Mapping using Ray Optics Approach to Model LIDAR Technology for Self-Driven Cars", IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference (ITEC-India), 2019.

13. Uttam M. Pal, Prajakta Sabnis, Swapnil Badgujar, and Christopher Boucher, “Ray Optics approach to model LIDAR Technology for self-driving cars under different surrounding obstructions and atmospheric conditions”, FISITA 2018, Chennai.

14. Uttam M. Pal, Suryakant Gupta, N Vaghela, Keena Kalaria, and S Mukherjee, “Modeling and Simulation on Pulsed Power Magnetron”, IEEE-ICOPS 2012, Edinburg, 3P-31, page 101.

Patents

2022

1. Invention Title: A multimodal intraoperative probe for breast cancer margin assessment and methods thereof. Inventors: Hardik J Pandya, Arif Mohd. Kamal, Uttam M. Pal, Arjun B. S., and Manu K. S. Indian patent application filing no: 202241012649

Date of Filing: March 15, 2022

2020

2. Invention Title: Non-invasive test kit for rapid detection and screening infectious disease in individuals. Inventors: Hardik J. Pandya, Jagannathan Gopalkrishnan, Anil Vishnu G K, Midhun C. Kachappilly, Sudarshan Jagannathan, Akhil Mohan, Uttam M. Pal. Indian patent application filing no: 202041022006, Date of Filing: May 26, 2020

Technical Articles

2021

1. Designing Antireflecting Microstructures for Infrared Applications, COMSOL Technical blog, June 29, 2021.

Prior to 2020

2. How to Model Linear and Nonlinear Optics in the COMSOL Software, COMSOL Photonics blog series, Apr 6, 2018.

3. How to Model Optical Anisotropic Media with COMSOL Multiphysics, COMSOL Photonics blog series, Dec. 4, 2017.

4. Silicon Photonics: Designing and Prototyping Silicon Waveguides, COMSOL Photonics blog series, Sept. 19, 2017. (#3 in optics)

5. Use of LED’s in Endoscopy and Laparoscopy, 2014. (weekly top 7 article, #4) [LEDinside]

6. All in one smart opto-medical device, 2014 [LEDinside]

7. Effects of natural and artificial light on human body, 2014 (weekly top 7 article, #4) [LEDinside]

8. How Raman spectroscopy is revolutionizing the field of healthcare technology? 2014 [EE Herald]

9. The Future of Blue Light Considering Its Health Concerns, 2014. [LEDinside]

 Conferences, Schools, and Congress Participated

2022

1. METANANO 

2. Advanced Photonics Congress, 2022

3. Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics 2022

4. Si-Thru, Optics and Photonics International Congress (OPIC) 2022

5. MedTech 2022, IIT Hyderabad

2021

6. Frontiers in Optics 2021

7. International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN) 2021 Summer School

8. ICFO-Weizmann School on the Frontiers of Light 2021, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology

9. OSA Imaging & Sensing Congresses 2021

10. IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series 2021

11. International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies, IEEE CONECCT 2021

12. European Conferences on Biomedical Optics 2021

13. Fiber Optic Sensing and Biosensing 2021

2020

14. Journal of Biomedical Optics Webinar Series: Optical Tissue Phantoms: Designs and Uses, 2020

15. Journal of Biomedical Optics Webinar Series: Seeing Through Tissue, Part II: Tissue Clearing Methods, 2020

16. Photoacoustic Imaging: The Next Generation, 2020

Prior to 2019

17. Ask a Scientist, One day lab visit to Fermi Lab, Chicago, USA, 2012

18. DST-SERC School on Tokamaks & Magnetized Plasma Fusion (IPR, Gandhinagar), 2013

19. DST-SERC School on Laser Produced Plasma (RRCAT, Indore), 2012