Dr Bhaben Kalita Becomes Assam's Youngest Person To Bags "Young Scientist Award"
His doctoral thesis is on the very interesting and emerging topic of Understanding of Nonlinear Dynamics presents in the Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Actuator for various medical as well as industry applications
Dr Bhaben Kalita started his educational journey at Sankardev Vidya Niketan, Guwahati, Assam where he has completed his schooling in 2005 after that, he completed his 12th board examination in 2007 from Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam.
Due to his interest in investigating technology, he has appeared for various competitive examinations for getting admission to premier institutions and he successfully cleared the "Combined Entrance Examination 2007" with state highest marks in Mathematics.
Accordingly, he joined one of the premier institutions in the region of Northeast India, Assam Engineering College, Guwahati, Assam in Mechanical Engineering.
After that, to pursue his passion for technology intervention he joined the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati as an Assistant Project Engineer to set up a Virtual Robotics Lab funded by the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India. Here, he worked on the successful implementation of the project where he designed and developed different robotic platforms which can be used for various educational as well as industrial purposes. In the meantime, he got the opportunity to join the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati as a PhD student to pursue his further research. His doctoral thesis is on the very interesting and emerging topic of Understanding of Nonlinear Dynamics presents in the Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Actuator for various medical as well as industrial applications under the supervision of Prof. S. K. Dwivedy.
He established the untouched area of the research with 6 publications in repute international journals multiple international conference presentations and one Patent.
Based on his doctoral thesis, he developed an affordable novel Pneumatic Artificial Muscle actuator with the help of locally available fabrics in Northeast India, such as Muga Silk and Pat Silk fibres. This muscle actuator can be used in various medical applications like exoskeletons and assistive devices along with different medical instrumentations. During his doctoral study, he travelled to different countries like Portugal, Malaysia, and Poland for presenting his works in various international forums.
His work was also acknowledged and appreciated by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India and was awarded the Young Scientist award in the year 2019. Finally, he defended his doctoral thesis in the month of December 2020. During his doctoral study, he was also involved with the newly established institution National Institute of Technology Meghalaya for setting up different laboratories, and industry-oriented curriculum design and lead the team for the establishment of the Center for Robotics and Mechatronics.
In the year 2021, Dr Bhaben Kalita joined Virginia Tech, United States of America as a Postdoctoral Associate to continue his further research in the field of system dynamics, robotics and biomechanics.
