Arjun Putcha
Doctoral Student Research Assistant at Bai Lab, UNC Chapel Hill
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArjun Putcha is a doctoral student and research engineer blending bioengineering, materials science, and embedded systems to advance pulse oximetry and real-time muscle-tracking biosensors. With four years of hands-on experience, he designs PCBs, develops firmware and signal-processing pipelines, and invents mathematical methods to improve oximeter accuracy for people of color. His background in computational neuroscience includes building Napari plugins and motion-correction tools for calcium imaging, demonstrating a rare mix of instrument-level hardware expertise and scientific software development. As a teaching assistant he teaches MATLAB modeling, and his prior EMT work gives him practical clinical perspective that informs human-centered device design.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (15)
gpu9
scientific-visualization9
visualization9
vulkan8
metal8
neuroscience8
matplotlib8
viewer8
neuroimaging7
python7
webgpu7
api7
batch6
imaging6
pandas4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nel-lab/mesmerize-napari
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Mesmerize plugin for the napari viewer
Contributions:33 reviews, 183 commits, 26 PRs in 8 months
neuroimagingneurosciencepythonneuroscience-methodsviewer
BailabUNC/sensor_core
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:9 reviews, 41 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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