Malone Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests:

• Robotic learning from demonstration
• Medical imaging analysis
• Deep learning

Deepak Raina is a Malone Postdoctoral Fellow advised by Axel Krieger and Muyinatu Bell. He is also affiliated with the Intelligent Medical Robotic Systems and Equipment Lab and the Photoacoustics and Ultrasonics Systems Engineering Lab.

His research interests lie in developing intelligent robotic systems for precise and safe medical diagnosis and interventions. Specifically, his work uses deep learning for medical image analysis and learning from demonstration (LfD) for robotic manipulation. At the Malone Center, Raina works with trauma surgeons, roboticists, and ultrasound experts to advance robotic ultrasound techniques for pre-hospital trauma diagnosis and interventions.

As part of his doctoral research, Raina developed several deep-learning algorithms for ultrasound imaging quality analysis and LfD methods for the real-time quality optimization of ultrasound images acquired via a robotic system. He also developed a telerobotic ultrasound system to scan trauma patients, with which he conducted 21 human trials at a hospital in India.

Raina completed his PhD in mechanical engineering in 2023 at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi as a Prime Ministers Research Fellow and at Purdue University as a Science and Engineering Research Board Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellow. He was previously a researcher at the TCS Robotics Research and Innovation Lab in Delhi from 2017 to 2019.