Manideepa Mukherjee Bhakat

Passionate researcher dedicated to growing professionally and advancing the field of Health and Well being through solid research.

manideepa.mukherjee@gmail.com

• Interaction Design
• Wearable Sensing
• Smart Textile
• HCI for Societal Good
• Brain Sensing
• Health monitoring of Older adults with Dementia

• Won Visvesvaraya PhD Fellowship, Govt of India.
• Received Microsoft Research India Travel Fund for Attending UbiComp'19.
• SIGCHI Student Travel Fund for attending UbiComp'19 in London, UK

• Associate Chair CHI Late-Breaking Works 2020, 2021
• Reviewer NordiCHI 2020, CHI 2024
• Technical Program Committee at DATA2022

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• Current Projects, NeuroBand: Cognitive Load Monitoring With Textile EEG Sensor, Deepak Ganesan, Trisha Andrew, Designed experiments to evaluate the headband for different applications., Designed experiments and currently conducting studies with healthy participants to evaluate the headband for a battery of cognitive tests., Performed the forward modeling simulations of the Region of Interest (ROI) of the cognitive tests to evaluate the best location for EEG electrode placement using Brainstorm software., Understanding the Prescribing Practices of Geriatric Psychiatry with Dementia, Ravi Karkar, Deepak Ganesan, Ipsit Vahia (Harvard Medical School), Designed the survey using Qualtrics., Performed qualitative and quantitative analysis of the survey data using python., Working on Manuscript preparation for submission.
• Ph.D. Thesis: MenstruPal: A Smart Sensor For Monitoring Menstrual Rhythm, Dr. Aman Parnami, Designed a sensor for Menstrual Blood Loss Monitoring., Extended the Sensor design to make it a wearable system and conducted user studies to understand the effect of activities standing, sitting, walking, and sleeping on the sensor.
• DFGenTool, Dr. Alexander Fell, Dr. Apala Guha, Implemented a graph generation tool for Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs)., It is an open-source tool available on GitHub: https://github.com/manideepam/DFGenTool.

Title: Post Doctoral Research Associate

• MenstruLoss: Sensor For Menstrual Blood Loss Monitoring, Manideepa Mukherjee, Sana Ali Naqvi, Anushika Verma, Debarka Sengupta, Aman Parnami, Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., 3, 2, Article 58, June 2019, 10.1145/3328929, 2474-9567, 219, 4
• Challenges and opportunities of textile-based smart sanitary napkin design, Manideepa Mukherjee, Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp/ISWC '19 Adjunct), 1044-1046, 2019, 10.1145/3341162.3349572
• DUMask: A Discrete and Unobtrusive Mask-Based Interface for Facial Gestures, Arpit Bhatia, Aryan Saini, Isha Kalra, Manideepa Mukherjee, Aman Parnami, Augmented Humans Conference (AHs '23), 12 Pages, March 12-14, 2023, 10.1145/3582700.3582726
• MenstruWear: In-The-Wild Study For Characterizing The Effect Of User Activities On Sanitary Napkin-Based Bodily Fluid Monitoring, Manideepa Mukherjee, Abhay Sheel Anand, Varnika Kairon, Aman Parnami, Proceedings of the 15th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly '23), Article 7, 1-12, 10.1145/3605390.3605404
• DFGenTool: A Dataflow Graph Generation Tool for Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Architectures, M. Mukherjee, A. Fell, A. Guha, 2017 30th International Conference on VLSI Design and 2017 16th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID), 67-72, 2017, 10.1109/VLSID.2017.62
• Performance analysis of a FPGA based novel binary and DBNS multiplier, Amrita Saha, Manideepa Mukherjee, Debanjana Datta, Sangita Saha, Amitabha Sinha, SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News, 41, 2, 9-16, May 2013, 10.1145/2490302.2490305
• A novel architecture for conversion of binary to single digit double base numbers, Manideepa Mukherjee, Amitabha Sinha, SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News, 38, 5, 1-6, December 2010, 10.1145/1978907.1978909

• Aman Parnami, Director, Weave Lab Cofounder and CXO, Tweek Labs Founder & CEO Ohilo, aman@ohilo.io
• Deepak Ganesan, Prof. CICS University of Massachusetts, A343 Lederle Graduate Research Center (LGRC), Amherst, MA, 01003, dganesan AT cs DOT umass DOT edu
• Ravi Karkar, Asst. Professor CICS University of Massachusetts, A351B LGRC, (413) 54545-1054, rkarkar@umass.edu