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Dipankar Bhattacharya

Imperial College London, Centre for Transformative Garment Production, University of Auckland, IIT Roorkee, Hong Kong University, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology

ORCID iD 0000-0002-4737-9818
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I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Imperial College London, developing AI-driven soft robotic exosuits for upper-limb rehabilitation. My work focuses on adaptive assistive technologies for people with Parkinson’s, combining human experiments, EMG, digital twins, and reinforcement learning. I was awarded the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for my research in rehabilitation robotics.

I am motivated by the opportunity to translate robotics and AI into clinically meaningful rehabilitation technologies. My goal is to build intelligent, human-centered systems that improve movement, recovery, and quality of care.

My background includes soft robotics, cable-driven systems, AI-based deformable-object robotic manipulation, and control. I have developed robotic systems for fabric manipulation, cable-driven robot modelling and control, and a soft robotic oesophagus for stent testing, applying modelling, perception, and learning-based methods across healthcare and automation.

My academic and research journey has taken me across four countries — from an M.Tech. in India, to a PhD in New Zealand, to research and engineering roles in Hong Kong, and now to London as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow — giving me a global and interdisciplinary perspective on robotics research. My work is supported by a strong record of competitive funding, peer-reviewed research, and international professional recognition. I was awarded several fellowships and grants, and my research has led to publications in leading journals including IEEE Transactions on Control Systems and Technology, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and Soft Robotics. I have also shared this work through invited talks at Imperial College London and the World Robotics Conference, with recent work selected for oral presentation at ICRA 2026, and I serve as a reviewer for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, ICRA, and the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics. Earlier in my academic journey, I ranked in the 99.12 percentile in India’s GATE examination and 31st in the All India Junior Mathematics Olympiad.

I value collaboration, mentorship, and translational research, and I am always happy to connect with researchers, clinicians, engineers, and industry partners working in robotics, AI, rehabilitation, and healthcare technologies.

Employment

  • Imperial College London Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
    2025 - Present
  • Centre for Transformative Garment Production Senior Research Engineer-Control Systems
    2024 - 2025
  • Hong Kong University Visiting Research Associate
    2024 - 2025
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong Post Doctoral Research Fellow
    2021 - 2024
  • Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
    2021 - 2022
  • The University of Auckland Graduate Teaching Assistant
    2017 - 2020
  • The University of Auckland Graduate Teaching Assistant
    2017 - 2020
  • Galgotias University Lecturer
    2013 - 2015

Education

  • University of Auckland Doctor of Philosophy
    2016 - 2020
  • IIT Roorkee M.Tech
    2011 - 2013
  • North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology Bachelors of Technology
    2004 - 2010

Projects & Funding

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Publications (21)