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Arijit Dutta is currently a Bioengineering Master's student at the University of Maryland. Arijit is a member of Dr. Wolfgang Losert's lab (https://losertlab.umd.edu/) currently conducting research on identifying how acoustic forcing impacts neuronal firing in living neural networks.
Prior to joining the University of Maryland, Arijit completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Bioengineering and minoring in chemistry in 2022. Arijit's specific interest is in tissue engineering and its application in regenerative medicine.
While at studying at the University of Pittsburgh Arijit conducted research in the Brown Lab ( https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/brown_lab ) at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. As part of the Brown lab, Arijit has worked on the Aging Project, which focuses on investigating the impact of age and material type on the immune response to implants, and the Dry Eye Project, which focuses on identifying methods to coat contact lenses to mitigate dry eye symptoms.
As an undergraduate research intern of the Translational Research Laboratory(June 2020-October 2021) in Urogynecology (https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/people/faculty/steven-abramowitch/) at the University of Pittsburgh, Arijit worked on the DEMAND and its related studies. This project focused on elucidating the mechanisms behind recurring pelvic organ prolapse. Arijit presented his findings from this project at the 2020 Carnegie Mellon University Forum on Biomedical Engineering. Additionally, his work also contributed to a publication titled "
3D Quantitative Analysis of Clitoral Anatomy Improves Understanding of Clitoral Anatomy in Nulliparous Women in the International Urogynecology Journal.
A participant of the 2021 REU Wake Forest Biomedical Engineering Summer Research Program, Arijit worked in the Clinical Imaging Analysis Lab (http://tsi.wakehealth.edu/CIALab/). As a member of this lab, Arijit worked on utilizing vision transformers, a type of machine learning, to automatically identify cancer cells in colorectal biopsy images. Arijit presented the findings from this project at the 2021 BMES Annual Conference.
Arijit participated as an undergraduate research intern in the Advanced Energy Systems and Microdevices Laboratory (https://www.lee-research.org/) in the New Jersey Institute of Technology as part of an NSF REU program over the summer of 2019. As part of the lab, Arijit worked on the Point-of-Care Nano Biochip System project. This project focused on developing a biochip that could detect whether a patient has a disease based on a miniscule amount of blood.
In addition to his time in various research laboratories, Arijit has served/is serving as an undergraduate teaching assistant for several courses. He has served as a teaching assistant for the following courses: BIOENG 1070/1071(Cell Biology I & II), BIOENG 1000(Bioengineering Statistics), BIOENG 1002(Intramural Internship).