Profile

Ratan Das

Joined North Lakhimpur College on 24 Sep, 2022

Worked as Research Fellow in CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh, NEHU Shillong, and was a Visiting Doctoral Fellow at the University of Montpellier, France.

Research Interest:
Gait Analysis, Wearable Electronics, Medical Instrumentation

Specialized Courses:
Electronics System Design, Biomedical Instrumentation, Signal Processing

Experience

Research Associate: North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong (May 2021- August 2022)
Research Fellow: CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh (September-2013 - April 2021)

Awards and Accomplishments

Visiting Doctoral Fellow at Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM, France) from June 2019 to July 2019.
Winner of DBT-BIRAC Hackathon 2016 with theme Innovation in Healthcare Technology for the design of Rehabilitation Device to Help Arthritis Patients (RAHAT) (Cash Prize of INR 1,00,000/-)
Second Runner up of MedTech Hackathon organized by Indian Institute of Technology Ropar for the design of an Ergonomic Crutch (Cash Prize of INR 10,000/-)
Best Poster Award at Indo-French Workshop on Robotics for Rehabilitation (Robo-Rehab 2019)
Best Paper Award at 5th International Conference of Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA-2020), STEM Society and National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India.
Best Paper Award at MICTDI-2016 held at IETE, Chandigarh, India
Selected for International Travel Grant by Dept. of Science and Technology (Govt. of India) and CCSTDS (Govt. of India) to attend IEEE Sensors 2019, Montreal, Canada.
Qualified for National Eligibility Test (Junior Research Fellowship) in Electronic Science, December 2013 and December-2014.
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering-2013 in Electronics & Communication Engineering

Research Projects (As team member)

Development of gait training tools and mobility aids for Parkinson's Patients (Granting Agency: Dept. of Biotechnology, New Delhi)
Dynamic Postural Stability Assessment System (Granting Agency: CSIR, New Delhi)
Modelling of Human Intention during Gait Rehabilitation-“iRehab” (Indo-French Bilateral Exchange & Collaborative Research Programme under DST-INRIA-CNRS)
Ligament Injury Assessment and Therapy Device for motor-rehabilitation of Soldiers “L-GEAR” (Granting Agency: CSIR, New Delhi
Portable Harness Ambulatory System (Granting Agency: CSIR, New Delhi)
Technology Solution for Exoskeleton Devices (Granting Agency: CSIR, New Delhi)
Development and Calibration of Cricoid Sensor Assembly (Consultancy project from PGIMER, Chandigarh)
Respiratory Assistance Intervention Device: A portable ventilator (Respi-AID) (Granting Agency: CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh)
Performance evaluation of developed Wireless Foot Sensor Module (WFSM) for estimating gait temporal parameters of persons with Neurological Gait Disorder (Clinical Study)

Patents/Copyrights/Publications

PATENTS

Therapeutic apparatus for adaptive joint therapy based on quantified Ashworth and modified Ashworth scale (Patent Published, Appl. No- 201911013438 dated: 03/04/2019)
System and method for measuring pressure applied on cricoid cartilage during Sellick’s manoeuvre (Patent Published, Application Number: 202111062180 dated: 31/12/2021)

COPYRIGHTS

L-Gear: Ligament Injury Assessment & Therapy Tool for Motor Rehabilitation (Copyright Granted No. SW-13319/2020)
G-Eva: System for gait evaluation (Copyright Granted No. SW-16838/2023, Dated: 12/07/2023)
Balance Board for Dynamic Postural Stability Assessment (Applied for Industrial Design Protection)

PUBLICATIONS

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"Digital-Health Monitoring System for Healthy Aging using Gait Biomarkers," IEEE Sensors Journal (2023). [IF: 4.3]
“A Novel Low-Cost ZMP Estimation Method for Humanoid Gait using Inertial Measurement Devices: Concept and Experiments”, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (2023) [IF: 1.408]
"Recent trends and practices toward assessment and rehabilitation of neurodegenerative disorders: Insights from human gait." Frontiers in Neuroscience (2022) [IF: 5.152]
"Development of Robotic Rehabilitation Device for Spasticity Treatment of Acute Spinal Cord Injury Patients." IETE Journal of Research(2021) [IF: 1.877]
"A Novel Method for Stride Length Estimation Using Wireless Foot Sensor Module." IETE Journal of Research(2021) [IF: 1.877]
"Fusion of EEG and EMG signals for classification of unilateral foot movements." Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (2020) [IF: 5.076]
"A novel approach for real-time gait events detection using developed wireless foot sensor module." IEEE Sensors Letters (2019) [IF: 2.8]
“Investigations on Postural Stability and Spatiotemporal Parameters of Human Gait using Developed Wearable Smart Insole” Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology (JMET), January 2015, Vol. 39, No. 1, Pages 75-78

Invited Talks

Delivered an Invited Talk at National Conference on Advanced Wireless Communication and its Implications, 2018 held at BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib, India
Invited as Technical Expert for conducting 02 days workshop on “Biomedical applications using LabVIEW” at the National Institute of Science and Technology, Orissa, India
Invited as Technical Expert for conducting a workshop on LabVIEW software at Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Ambala, India

Other Roles

Head, Department of Electronics, North Lakhimur College (A) since October-2022
Chairman, Board of Studies, Department of Electronics, N.L.C (A) since March-2023
Innovation Activity Coordinator, Innovation Cell, N.L.C(A) Since Nov-2022
Coordinator, N.L.C (A), Stay Safe Online Campaign, by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), GoI
Coordinator, NLC-IPR Cell, Since October-2023
Member, Institutional Apprenticeship Cell, since March-2024