Shalin Mehta

Current

• Ph.D. student in Bioengineering at National University of Singapore

Past

• Scientist-B at RCI, Defence Research & Development Organization
• Research Assistant at IIT Bombay
• Teaching Assistant at DA-IICT

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Education

• National University of Singapore
• DA-IIT (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of ICT)
• L. D. College of Engineering

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Shalin Mehta’s Summary

I have been fascinated by variety of signals, viz (in chronological order)
* channel waveforms for high capacity communication (Masters thesis)
* speech (Research fellowship at IIT Bombay)
* radar (DRDO stint)
* and now cellular dynamics as imaged with optical microscopes (PhD efforts).

I enjoy thinking about signal processing and how it can be applied to real-life research problems.

Shalin Mehta’s Specialties:

Optical microscopy methods, signal and image processing, electronic design and programming, cell culture, protein labeling methods

Shalin Mehta’s Experience

• Ph.D. student in Bioengineering

  National University of Singapore

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

  My doctoral work is about developing phase imaging methods capable of providing quantitative measurement of specimen's morphology with high-resolution. I am excited about modeling of image formation (forward problem of imaging) in systems that use large illumination apertures, subsequent retrieval of specimen morphology from the images (inverse problem of imaging), and applications. These phase imaging methods are particularly applicable to study of fast cellular processes such as mitosis (cell division). I am advised by Prof. Colin Sheppard and collaborate with biologists, particularly at Liver Cancer Functional Genomics Lab of Prof. Caroline Lee. My graduate education is funded by NGS (NUS Graduate School for Integrative sciences & engineering), which I joined in August 2006.

• Scientist-B

  RCI, Defence Research & Development Organization

  (Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  September 2004 — June 2006 (1 year 10 months)

  I was involved in design of signal processing and data processing systems at RCI, DRDO. The signal processing system was meant to provide doppler tracking for a tracking radar that was to be used as a seeker on-board a missile. The data processing system was meant to collate information from other subsystems of the radar and execute control software. During my stay at RCI, I got to learn details of practical signal processing, FPGA based hardware-software co-design (we used Microblaze processor on Xilinx FPGA) and electronic & mechanical interfacing.

• Research Assistant

  IIT Bombay

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  April 2004 — September 2004 (6 months)

  Before submitting my Master's thesis, I got an offer to work on low-bit rate speech coding at IIT, Bombay under Research fellowship scheme. I worked with Dr. Preeti Rao on improving performance of a low bit-rate codec that the group had developed. My contribution made an improvement in quality of encoding and decoding for fricative sounds.

• Teaching Assistant

  DA-IICT

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 9 months)

  I assisted in teaching of four undergraduate courses: Linear algebra and matrices, Integrated Electronics, Signals And Systems, Basic Electronic Circuits.

Shalin Mehta’s Education

• National University of Singapore

  PhD , Bioengineering, Bioimaging , 2006 — 2011 (expected)

  Activities and Societies:

  Vice President- NUS student chapter of Optical Society of America

• DA-IIT (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of ICT)

  MTech , Information and Communication Technology , 2002 — 2004

  Received President's Gold Medal for academic excellence.

  Activities and Societies:

  In initial days, won (and enjoyed) technical quizzes. Later, organized (and enjoyed again) technical quizzes on electronics and C programming during annual technical festivals.

• L. D. College of Engineering

  BEng , Electronics and Communication Engineering , 1998 — 2002

  Activities and Societies:

  IEEE Student chapter

Additional Information

Shalin Mehta’s Interests:

Academic: Imaging theory, instrumentation for biological optical imaging, mitosis, Biology lab skills such as tissue culture and genetic engineering General: Mathematics, ways of using light to measure natural phenomena, programming, image processing, open source Other: Outings, photography, reading, puzzles, writing

Shalin Mehta’s Groups:

IEEE Student Member
Vice President, NUS OSA (Optical Society of America) Student Chapter
SPIE (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers) Student Member

•    DAIICT Alumni Association
•    OSA Members
•    Microscopy
•    SPIE
•    MATLAB Users and Integrators
•    Optical Design

Shalin Mehta’s Honors:

* President's Gold Medal for Academic Excellence during M.Tech.
* NGS (NUS Graduate School of Integrative Sciences and Engineering) Graduate Scholarship
* NUS President's Graduate Fellowship

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