Ahalya Mandana
Research Engineer 2 at Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAhalya Mandana is a research engineer with eight years of experience designing and delivering electromechanical rehabilitation robotics and custom MATLAB applications for NIH-funded stroke trials at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She bridges hands-on product development—mechanical assembly, electronics installation, sourcing—and software for data acquisition and control, enabling devices now deployed across multi-site clinical studies. Her background includes ROS-based simulation and visualization work for Caterpillar, where she modeled hydraulically actuated excavator arms and built URDF/Gazebo sensor plugins, demonstrating a rare cross-domain fluency in both medical devices and heavy-equipment robotics. An MS in Robotics from Northwestern complements her mentorship of students and collaborative work with clinicians, and she often translates clinical needs into pragmatic prototype iterations that scale into regulated research settings.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Ramaiah Institute Of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Northwestern University
Kannada, kodavathak, English
Github Skills (7)
prediction-model4
predict4
knn-classification4
water3
consumption3
machine-learning2
python2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
am2512/eecs330_project
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:309 commits, 296 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
am2512/baxter_final_project
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:26 pushes in 1 day
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