Dr. Mainak Basu

About

Dr. Mainak Basu is a biomedical researcher working in digital microfluidics, lab-on-chip diagnostics, and point-of-care biosensing. His research focuses on integrating electrowetting-on-dielectric platforms, optical detection strategies, and low-cost sensor technologies to enable rapid screening for early disease diagnosis in resource-limited settings. Dr. Basu completed his bachelor’s and master’s in biomedical engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata and VIT University, Vellore. Thereafter, he worked as a Junior Research Fellow for one year in a DRDE funded project at IIT Madras followed by his PhD from IIT Kharagpur in the year 2022. Afterwards, he stayed in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering as Post doctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich from 2022-2024 till he joined as Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of NIT Raipur. His broader interests span microfluidics, bioMEMS, soft lithography, additive manufacturing, triboelectric nanogenerators, and flexible electronics, with a strong emphasis on cost-effective, indigenous healthcare technology development. Dr. Basu is also involved in academic curriculum development and laboratory capacity building in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Driven by the vision of affordable and scalable medical diagnostics, he aims to translate microfluidic innovations from bench to bedside, contributing to national missions.

Employment

• National Institute of Technology Raipur Assistant Professor
  2024 - Present
• National Institute of Technology Raipur Assistant Professor
  2024 - Present
• ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Researcher
  2022 - 2024
• Mylab Discovery Solution Application Engineer
  2021 - 2021
• MeFy Care Research and Development
  2020 - 2021

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (7)

• Numerical Investigation of the Impact of Heat Distribution on Fluid Flow for the Combination of Newtonian-Newtonianand Newtonian-Non-Newtonian Fluid
  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN FLUIDS 2026 DOI: 10.1002/FLD.70055
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• Surface modification of polydimethylsiloxane by the cataractous eye protein isolate
  International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.129470
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• Hydrophobicity-Based Grading of Industrial Composite Insulators Images Using Cross Attention Vision Transformer With Knowledge Distillation
  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DIELECTRICS AND ELECTRICAL INSULATION 2024 DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2023.3347377
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• Design and development of a digital microfluidic platform for augmented droplet actuation and transport
  Unpublished 2022 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21806.59203
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• Paper based microfluidics: A forecast toward the most affordable and rapid point-of-care devices
  Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science 2022 DOI: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2021.07.010
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• Development of graphene oxide – PDMS composite dielectric for rapid droplet movement in digital microfluidic applications
  Chemical Engineering Science 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2020.116175
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• Analysis of augmented droplet transport during electrowetting over triangular coplanar electrode array
  JOURNAL OF ELECTROSTATICS 2021 DOI: 10.1016/J.ELSTAT.2020.103541
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