Hi, I am Kaushik. I am a physicist by training and an entrepreneur by inclination. I work at the interface of physics and engineering, to develop affordable healthcare solutions and point-of-care diagnostics. Presently, I am working as Translation Scientist with DIA in Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (Bengaluru, India). I have co-founded Iota Design & Innovations Lab Pvt. Ltd. - a company that designs, develops and commercialises healthcare products. I have a firm belief that technologies developed in academic labs should go beyond academic publications and/or vanity patents and must reach to the society for the collective good.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (jointly from IIT Bombay and Monash University)
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Engineering
Tissue Regeneration through Cyber-Physical Systems and Microbots Prasoon Kumar, Khalid Baig Mirza, Kaushik Choudhury, Magali Cucchiarini, Henning Madry, Pratyoosh Shukla Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 Tissue engineering is a systematic approach of assembling cells onto a 3D scaffold to form a functional tissue in the presence of critical growth factors. The scaffolding system guides stem cells through topological, physiochemical, and mechanical cues to differentiate and integrate to form a functional tissue. However, cellular communication during tissue formation taking place in a reactor needs to be understood properly to enable appropriate positioning of the cells in a 3D environment. Hence, sensors and actuators integrated with cyber‐physical system (CPS) may be able to sense the tissue microenvironment and direct cells/cellular aggregates to an appropriate position, respectively. This can facilitate better cell‐to‐cell communication and cell–extracellular matrix communication for proper tissue morphogenesis. Advancements are made in the field of smart scaffolds that can morph cells/cellular aggregates after sensing the cellular microenvironment in a desired 3D architecture by providing appropriate cues. Recent scientific developments in the additive manufacturing technology have enabled the fabrication of smart scaffolds to create structural and functional tissue constructs. Sensors/actuators, cyber‐systems, smart materials, and additive manufacturing put together is expected to lead to improved tissue‐engineered medical products. The present review aims to highlight the possibilities of advancement of BioCPS for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Experiments to understand crystallization of levitated high temperature silicate melt droplets under low vacuum conditions Biswajit Mishra, Pratikkumar Manvar, Kaushik Choudhury, S. Karagadde, Atul Srivastava Scientific Reports, 2020 We report experiments on crystallization of highly undercooled forsterite melt droplets under atmospheric and sub-atmospheric pressure conditions. Experiments have been conducted under non-contact conditions using the principles of aero-dynamic levitation. Real time dynamics of solidification, along with the transient evolution of surface textures, have been recorded using high speed camera for three cooling rates. These images have been matched with the time-tagged temperature data to understand the effect of pressure conditions and cooling rates on the crystallization dynamics. Compared to normal pressure, relatively higher levels of undercooling could be achieved under sub-atmospheric conditions. Results showed a strong dependence of surface textures on pressure conditions. For any externally employed cooling rate, relatively small length scale morphological textures were observed under sub-atmospheric conditions, in comparison to those achieved under ambient conditions. The observed trends have been explained on the basis of influence of pressure conditions on recalescence phenomenon and the rate at which latent heat of crystallization gets dissipated from the volume of the molten droplet. Sub-atmospheric experiments have also been performed to reproduce one of the classical chondrule textures, namely the rim + dendrite double structure. Possible formation conditions of this double structure have been discussed vis-à-vis those reported in the limited literature. To the best of our knowledge, the reported study is one of the first attempts to reproduce chondrules-like textures from highly undercooled forsterite melt droplets under sub-atmospheric non-contact conditions.
A novel method for fabrication of size-controlled metallic nanoparticles by laser ablation Atul Srivastava, Ajai Kumar, Mukesh Ranjan, Rajesh K. Singh, Kaushik Choudhury Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, 2017 Time resolved experimental investigation of laser produced plasma-induced shockwaves has been carried out in the presence of confining walls placed along the lateral directions using a Mach Zehnder interferometer in air ambient. Copper was used as target material. The primary and the reflected shock waves and their effects on the evolution of medium density and the plasma density have been studied. The reflected shock wave has been seen to be affecting the shape and density of the plasma plume in the confined geometry. The same experiments were performed with water and isopropyl alcohol as the ambient liquids and the produced nanoparticles were characterised for size and size distribution. Significant differences in the size and size distribution are seen in case of the nanoparticles produced from the ablation of the targets with and without confining boundary. The observed trend has been attributed to the presence of confining boundary and the way it affects the thermalisation time of the plasma plume. The experiments also show the effect of medium density on the mean size of the copper nanoparticles produced.
Time resolved interferometric study of the plasma plume induced shock wave in confined geometry: Two-dimensional mapping of the ambient and plasma density Kaushik Choudhury, R. K. Singh, Surya Narayan, Atul Srivastava, Ajai Kumar Physics of Plasmas, 2016 An experimental investigation of the laser produced plasma induced shock wave in the presence of confining walls placed along the axial as well as the lateral direction has been performed. A time resolved Mach Zehnder interferometer is set up to track the primary as well as the reflected shock waves and its effect on the evolving plasma plume has been studied. An attempt has been made to discriminate the electronic and medium density contributions towards the changes in the refractive index of the medium. Two dimensional spatial distributions for both ambient medium density and plasma density (electron density) have been obtained by employing customised inversion technique and algorithm on the recorded interferograms. The observed density pattern of the surrounding medium in the presence of confining walls is correlated with the reflected shock wave propagation in the medium. Further, the shock wave plasma interaction and the subsequent changes in the shape and density of the plasma plume in confined geometry are briefly described.
Lattice expansion in ZnSe quantum dots Saikat Chattopadhyay, Naveen V. Kulkarni, Kaushik Choudhury, R. Prasad, Aga Shahee, B.N. Raja Sekhar, P. Sen Materials Letters, 2011
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Advances in nondestructive optical characterization techniques for engineered eye-on-a-chip devices: A comprehensive review P Madhurima, S Tripathi, P Mishra, K Choudhury, P Kumar, S Kumar, ... Optics & Laser Technology 175, 110750 , 2024 2024 Citations: 2
Nature-inspired vascularised materials and devices for biomedical engineering KA Sree, A Yagnik, PK Chordiya, K Choudhury, P Kumar Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering 25, 100444 , 2023 2023 Citations: 9
Laser-produced plasma: Fabrication of size-controlled metallic nanoparticles AK Kaushik Choudhury, Atul Srivastava, Rajesh Kumar Singh PLASMA AT THE NANOSCALE, 37-61 , 2022 2022 Citations: 1
Tissue Regeneration through Cyber‐Physical Systems and Microbots P Kumar, KB Mirza, K Choudhury, M Cucchiarini, H Madry, P Shukla Advanced Functional Materials 31 (31), 2009663 , 2021 2021 Citations: 13
A perspective on implantable biomedical materials and devices for diagnostic applications P Pulugu, S Ghosh, S Rokade, K Choudhury, N Arya, P Kumar Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering 18, 100287 , 2021 2021 Citations: 23
Experiments to understand crystallization of levitated high temperature silicate melt droplets under low vacuum conditions B Mishra, P Manvar, K Choudhury, S Karagadde, A Srivastava Scientific Reports 10 (1), 20910 , 2020 2020 Citations: 7
A comparative study of the behaviour of forsterite melts under atmospheric and sub-atmospheric conditions B Mishra, P Manvar, K Choudhury, S Karagadde, A Srivastava Arxiv , 2020 2020
Effect of confined geometry on the size distribution of nanoparticles produced by laser ablation in liquid medium K Choudhury, RK Singh, P Kumar, M Ranjan, A Srivastava, A Kumar Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects 17, 129-137 , 2019 2019 Citations: 29
Controlling the size distribution of nanoparticles through the use of physical boundaries during laser ablation in liquids K Choudhury, RK Singh, P Kumar, M Ranjan, A Srivastava, A Kumar arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.01365 , 2018 2018 Citations: 1
A novel method for fabrication of size-controlled metallic nanoparticles by laser ablation K Choudhury, RK Singh, M Ranjan, A Kumar, A Srivastava Photonics, Devices, and Systems VII 10603, 12-19 , 2017 2017 Citations: 1
Time-resolved whole field investigation of plasma plume-induced shock wave in liquid media of different densities K Choudhury, RK Singh, S Narayan, A Srivastava, A Kumar Applied Physics B 123 (5), 163 , 2017 2017 Citations: 7
Time-resolved whole field investigation of the phenomena of laser produced plasma-induced shockwaves in the media of different densities K Choudhury Monash University , 2017 2017 Citations: 2
Time resolved interferometric study of the plasma plume induced shock wave in confined geometry: Two-dimensional mapping of the ambient and plasma density K Choudhury, RK Singh, S Narayan, A Srivastava, A Kumar Physics of Plasmas 23 (4) , 2016 2016 Citations: 37
Lattice expansion in ZnSe quantum dots S Chattopadhyay, NV Kulkarni, K Choudhury, R Prasad, A Shahee, ... Materials Letters 65 (11), 1625-1627 , 2011 2011 Citations: 7
Generation and Propagation of Higher order Gaussian Beams A Mathew, K Choudhury, A Garg, S Kanojia, P Sen, TJ Andrews International Conference on Optics and photonics , 2009 2009 Citations: 3
Forces on a nanoparticle in an optical trap K Choudhury, JT Andrews, PK Sen, P Sen arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.5548 , 2008 2008 Citations: 3
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Time resolved interferometric study of the plasma plume induced shock wave in confined geometry: Two-dimensional mapping of the ambient and plasma density K Choudhury, RK Singh, S Narayan, A Srivastava, A Kumar Physics of Plasmas 23 (4) , 2016 2016 Citations: 37
Effect of confined geometry on the size distribution of nanoparticles produced by laser ablation in liquid medium K Choudhury, RK Singh, P Kumar, M Ranjan, A Srivastava, A Kumar Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects 17, 129-137 , 2019 2019 Citations: 29
A perspective on implantable biomedical materials and devices for diagnostic applications P Pulugu, S Ghosh, S Rokade, K Choudhury, N Arya, P Kumar Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering 18, 100287 , 2021 2021 Citations: 23
Tissue Regeneration through Cyber‐Physical Systems and Microbots P Kumar, KB Mirza, K Choudhury, M Cucchiarini, H Madry, P Shukla Advanced Functional Materials 31 (31), 2009663 , 2021 2021 Citations: 13
Nature-inspired vascularised materials and devices for biomedical engineering KA Sree, A Yagnik, PK Chordiya, K Choudhury, P Kumar Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering 25, 100444 , 2023 2023 Citations: 9
Experiments to understand crystallization of levitated high temperature silicate melt droplets under low vacuum conditions B Mishra, P Manvar, K Choudhury, S Karagadde, A Srivastava Scientific Reports 10 (1), 20910 , 2020 2020 Citations: 7
Time-resolved whole field investigation of plasma plume-induced shock wave in liquid media of different densities K Choudhury, RK Singh, S Narayan, A Srivastava, A Kumar Applied Physics B 123 (5), 163 , 2017 2017 Citations: 7
Lattice expansion in ZnSe quantum dots S Chattopadhyay, NV Kulkarni, K Choudhury, R Prasad, A Shahee, ... Materials Letters 65 (11), 1625-1627 , 2011 2011 Citations: 7
Generation and Propagation of Higher order Gaussian Beams A Mathew, K Choudhury, A Garg, S Kanojia, P Sen, TJ Andrews International Conference on Optics and photonics , 2009 2009 Citations: 3
Forces on a nanoparticle in an optical trap K Choudhury, JT Andrews, PK Sen, P Sen arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.5548 , 2008 2008 Citations: 3
Advances in nondestructive optical characterization techniques for engineered eye-on-a-chip devices: A comprehensive review P Madhurima, S Tripathi, P Mishra, K Choudhury, P Kumar, S Kumar, ... Optics & Laser Technology 175, 110750 , 2024 2024 Citations: 2
Time-resolved whole field investigation of the phenomena of laser produced plasma-induced shockwaves in the media of different densities K Choudhury Monash University , 2017 2017 Citations: 2
Laser-produced plasma: Fabrication of size-controlled metallic nanoparticles AK Kaushik Choudhury, Atul Srivastava, Rajesh Kumar Singh PLASMA AT THE NANOSCALE, 37-61 , 2022 2022 Citations: 1
Controlling the size distribution of nanoparticles through the use of physical boundaries during laser ablation in liquids K Choudhury, RK Singh, P Kumar, M Ranjan, A Srivastava, A Kumar arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.01365 , 2018 2018 Citations: 1
A novel method for fabrication of size-controlled metallic nanoparticles by laser ablation K Choudhury, RK Singh, M Ranjan, A Kumar, A Srivastava Photonics, Devices, and Systems VII 10603, 12-19 , 2017 2017 Citations: 1
A comparative study of the behaviour of forsterite melts under atmospheric and sub-atmospheric conditions B Mishra, P Manvar, K Choudhury, S Karagadde, A Srivastava Arxiv , 2020 2020