Academia

Driven by my affinity towards art, physics, and tangibility, I chose to become a mechanical engineer. All those hours spent in makerspaces studying in 3 continents, not once did I envision myself arm-deep inside the gut of a 150lb Yorkshire swine lying face-up as I flushed ethanol into her via an endoscopically guided overtube. But there I was, one snowy February afternoon, in the basement of MIT’s medical facility, as my team of engineers and medical practitioners concluded an anticipative 30-day in vivo study of our novel soft-robotic system. It felt surreal that a product so simple could be pivotal in tackling patient non-adherence, a problem that claims 125,000 lives every year in the US alone. It is this gratification from the lasting clinical impact that enables me to be meticulous while designing medical devices, and establishes my aspiration to push boundaries in biomechanical engineering – with a focus on minimally-invasive surgery and targeted drug delivery.

Two of the superstars I had a chance to work with in the #Langer and #Traverso lab! Congratulations to @tfaizx and John on their extremely hard work and creativity! So proud and honored to have worked with you. https://t.co/2XvOwYrnTc
— Malvika Verma Miller, PhD (@hiMalvika) May 18, 2020

Research Experience

Cumulatively, 2.5 years (and counting) of full-time research commitment.

Indian Institute of Science, India

Multidisciplinary & Multiscale Design and Device Laboratory (M2D2)
Graduate Project Assistant
September 2020 – Present
Research Focus: Swarm Microrobotics, Non-Invasive Surgery, Compliant Mechanisms

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research – Langer Lab
Undergraduate Research Assistant
August 2018 – September 2019
Research Focus: Soft Robotics, Targeted Drug Delivery, 3D Printing

Texas A&M University, Qatar

Multiphase Flow Assurance Lab
Undergraduate Research Assistant
June 2016 – August 2016 | June 2017 – August 2017
Research Focus: Microfluidics, Computational Mechanics, FEA

Education

Graduated in June 2020 with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Delhi Technological University, India

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering (Final year GPA 9.3/10) (Top 5%)
August ’15 – June ’20
Relevant Coursework: Fracture Mechanics, Mechatronics and Controls, Computational Geometry, Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation, Machine Learning

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Visiting Student, Mechanical Engineering (GPA 5.0/5.0) (Top 5%)
August ’18 – June ’20
Relevant Coursework: BiomakersIAP, StartMIT, 3D Printing for Entrepreneurship