Senior Scientist


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Ph.D. Amartya Ganguly

Postal address

Postal:
Georg-Brauchle-Ring 60_62
80992 München


Work Experience

Senior Scientist

Munich School for Robotics and System Intelligence,

Technical University of Munich

Feb 2021- present
Postdoctoral Researcher

Optimization, Robotics and Biomechanics,

Institut für Technische Informatik, University of Heidelberg

March 2019 - Sept 2020
Innovation Associate Marsi Bionics, Spain    Sept 2017 - Sept 2018
Postdoctoral Research Associate Keele University, United Kingdom  Aug 2015 - July 2017

 


Awards, Honours & Certificates

Core training on Industrial Innovation Management in the context of the European SME Innovation Associate-pilot

 EASME/H2020/INNO/2016/020: Lot 2

2018
3 consecutive Travel Grants, COST Action 16116, Wearable Robotics

2018,

2017

Horizon 2020 INNOSUP Programme European SME  2017
University of Hull Research Travel Grant 2012
International Fee Bursary for PhD in Engineering, University of Hull 2010

 


Education

Oct 2010 – July 2015 Ph.D. in Engineering, University of Hull United Kingdom
2005-2009 Bachelor's Biomedical Engineering, West Bengal University of Technology India

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Spieker, V.*, Ganguly, A.*+, Haddadin, S., & Piazza, C. (2021). An Adaptive Multi-Modal Control Strategy to Attenuate the Limb Position Effect in Myoelectric Pattern Recognition. Sensors21(21), 7404. (*equal contribution, + invited paper)
  • Ganguly, A., Rashidi, G., & Mombaur, K. (2021). Can Leap Motion Controller replace conventional marker-based motion capture systems ? In the XXVIII Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics.
  • Schimmer, J., Ganguly, A., & Mombaur, K. (2021). Analysing the impact of sensor placement on the quality of sEMG signals on the human forearm. In the XXVIII Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics.
  • Buchmann, D., Ganguly, A., & Mombaur, K. (2021). Video game based kinematic assessment using a Leap Motion Controller. In the XXVIII Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics.
  • Ganguly, A., Rashidi, G., & Mombaur, K. (2021). Comparison of the Performance of the Leap Motion ControllerTM with a Standard Marker-Based Motion Capture System. Sensors, 21(5), 1750.
  • Blana, D., Van Den Bogert, A. J., Murray, W. M., Ganguly, A., Krasoulis, A., Nazarpour, K., & Chadwick, E. K. (2020). Modelbased control of individual finger movements for prosthetic hand function. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 28(3), 612-620.
  • Sanz-Merodio, D., Puyuelo, G., Ganguly, A., Garces, E., Goñi, A., & Garcia, E. (2019). EXOtrainer Project Clinical Evaluation of Gait Training with Exoskeleton in Children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy. In Advances in Robotics Research: From Lab to Market (pp. 211-227). Springer, Cham.
  • Ganguly, A., Sanz-Merodio, D., Puyuelo, G., Goñi, A., Garces, E., & Garcia, E. (2018, October). Wearable pediatric gait exoskeleton-a feasibility study. In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 4667-4672).
  • Edward K. Chadwick, Dimitra Blana, Amartya Ganguly, Antonie J. van den Bogert & Wendy M. Murray. 2016, “Simulated gripping of an object with a real-time musculoskeletal model of the hand: application to prosthesis control”, 40th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, Raleigh, NC, USA.
  • Ganguly, A., Hou, M., Dobson, C.A., Vanicek, N.K. 2015, “Dominance of plantar flexors during quiet stance: A case study”, Clinical Movement Analysis across ICF, Keele University.
  • Ganguly, A., Modelling of the human quiet stance with ankle joint complexity. PhD thesis 2014. University of Hull, United Kingdom
  • Ganguly, A., Hou, M., Dobson, C.A., Vanicek, N.K. 2012, “A mass-spring-damper model of the human ankle complex contributing to postural balance”, The Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Berlin, Germany.

Conferences, Seminars and Talks

•Special session Symbiotic Exoskeletons: Exploring the human side. Co-organiser and Co-chair Dr Elena Garcia, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2018, Madrid, Spain. (invited for proposal submission, accepted www.iros2018.org/special-sessions)

Amartya Ganguly, COST Action 16116, Wearable Robotics for exoskeleton safety workshop, Aug 30, 2018, Netherlands (invited speaker)

Amartya Ganguly, Cybathlon, Session, IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, Aug 2018 (invited panellist)

Amartya Ganguly, “India and Spain: Joining hands in innovation”, Horasis India Meeting, June 2018, Malaga, Spain. (invited, panellist)

Amartya Ganguly, COST Action 16116, Wearable Robotics, Feb 2018, Darmstadt, Germany (invited speaker)

• Simulated gripping with a real-time musculoskeletal model of the hand: application to prosthesis control, Edward K. Chadwick, Dimitra Blana, Amartya Ganguly, Antonie J van den Bogert, Wendy M Murray. Engineering the upper limb, 2016, ImechE, London, UK

• Simulated gripping of an object with a real-time musculoskeletal model of the hand: application to prosthesis control. Lead Author: Edward K Chadwick; Presenter: Amartya Ganguly (Co-author), TIPS/ISPO 2016, Glasgow, Scotland

• “Inverted pendulum model for human bipedal quiet stance”, IMechE, Speak Out for Engineering Presentation Competition, February 2014, Hull, United Kingdom

• “A mass-spring-damper model of the human ankle complex contributing to postural balance”, 10th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Berlin, Germany, April 2012 (Special session)