1. Bharadwaj Nandakumar
⌂3432 Powelton Avenue, Apt -1B, Philadelphia, PA - 19104 bn324@drexel.edu 267-475-3474
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bharadwaj-nandakumar/8b/b40/71a
Education
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA Expected June 2018
PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India May 2013
Bachelor of Science, Electronics &Instrumentation Engineering
Research Experience
Moxon Neurorobotics Lab, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA Jan2013-Present
Title: Cortical Correlates of Chronic Neuropathic Pain and its effect on sensory motor plasticity.
 Understand mechanisms underlying cortical reorganization after spinal cord injury and its association with
chronic neuropathic pain.
 Extracellular single neuron recording, Intracortical Micro stimulation, Somatosensory Evoked potential analysis
(LFP), behavioral testing.
Title: Transcranial Static Magnetic Field Stimulation for Neuropathic Pain modulation March13-March 14
 Study the biophysical mechanisms of magnetic fields on the nervous system
 Perform StereoTaxic Neurosurgery and Chronic implants in Rodents
 Perform Von-Frey Behavioural testing, Preop-PostOp Care
Graduate Research Assistant, Cognitive Neuroengineering Lab (CONQUER), Drexel University Oct 2013-June14
Title: Noninvasive Assessment of Intracranial Pressure using Functional near Infrared Spectroscopy, arterial tonometry
 Explored the waveforms associated to different modalities such as FNIRS, carotid artery waveform,
skull temperature and identify signatures which are related to ICP.
 Developed hardware and software for Tilt table angle Measurement System with auto-calibration and
reference transformation features for stimulus presentation using LABVIEW.
 Develop Data analysis Tool for FNIRS tilt signature identification using MATLAB.
Undergraduate Thesis
Instrumentation System Design Research Group, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India April 12- 13
Title: MEMS based Gesture Sensing Interface for Speech Impaired
 Gesture recognition system developed using inertial measurement units, accelerometers and self-styled
optoelectronic flexion sensing devices.
 Sensor Fusion, Successive Aggregation Approximation (SAX) and Machine learning algorithm such as Naïve
Bayes classifiers were implemented to ensure system robustness.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant
Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA Dec13-March14
 Instructed Physics 101 LAB for freshmen, developed experiment hand-outs and graded assignments.
 Phys 154(electromagnetics) recitation course instructor,also handled labs. Sept 14-Dec14
School of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
 Handled BMES 303 Electronics Lab(operational amplifiers and active Filters) Jan15-March15
 Handled BMES 302 Biomeasurements Lab(ECG,EKG,EMG,EOG analysis with Biopac) March15-June15
Department of Electrical Engineering, Amrita University, India Jan13-Apr13
Supplementary Course Instructor for Basics Electronics course for freshmen.
-Delivered Lectures, tutoring, content creation and recitation on basic electronics circuits and systems
Analog Electronics Laboratory Assistant, Amrita University, India April12-Jan13
-assisted students and handled Circuits (EC302) LAB for sophomores.

2. Academic Achievements
 Drexel Graduate Teaching Assistantship
 Drexel Dean’s Fellowship
 Topped CEP examination on “Magnetic Resonance Imaging” from Indian Institute of Technology ,Bombay
 Best Paper Award -Low Cost Hill Descent Control Units for Cars, Indian Institute of Technology,Madras
 ‘A’ grade in Cicuits & Electronics MIT ,EdX initiative(6.002x)
Skills
Softwares- Electronic Design and Automation Tools (PSPICE, TINA-TI,Proteus,MultiSIM,Eacgle-PCB,ORCAD)
Programming Languages-MATLAB, LABVIEW, Embedded Programming (Arduino IDE,Code Composer Studio)
Stereotaxic Neurosurgey,single neuron mapping, intracortical microstimulation,Von-Frey tests, Animal Care.