ANKAN DUTTA

I am currently a postdoctoral associate at MIT and previously served as a Visiting Research Scientist at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where I worked with Prof. Giovanni Traverso on ingestible electronics and soft robotics. I my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Penn State under the guidance of Prof. Huanyu Cheng, with support from the NIH T32 Predoctoral Fellowship (NINDS), Diefenderfer Fellowship, Riess Fellowship, and Fox Scholarship. My doctoral research focused on MRI-compatible neural implants, large-area stretchable ultrasound arrays, and phase-transition semiconducting hydrogels to investigate neural responses during haptic sensation. Outside academia, I was the Entrepreneurial Lead of NeuroXR, an NSF I-Corps National startup developing neural wearables for extended reality (XR) technologies, and an NSF INTERN with Actuated Medical, where I advanced the NeuralGlider platform for high-frequency neural probe insertion.