Associate Professor
Ajay Pandey
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering & Robotics
Biography
Dr Ajay Pandey was awarded a PhD in Physics from the University of Angers (France) with thesis titled " Physics and Models of Plastic Photovoltaic Devices". Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics. He held prestigious fellowships including QUT-Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellowship in Medical Robotics, and Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) Research Fellowship in Next generation Photovoltaic Technology.His research interests have the interdisciplinary mix of Photonics, Chemical Physics, Molecular Electronics, Computer Science and Robotics that are aimed at creating new technological solutions to interdisciplinary research problems. He leads a number of major research projects, including development and implementation of advanced sensing technology for applications in Neuroscience, Intelligent Bionics, Medical Robotics, Energy up-conversion and Robotic Vision. He is a Program Leader within QUT's Centre for A Waste Free World and also serves as an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports- a Springer Nature Group journal.
Dr Pandey supervises 11 PhD students, 1 M.Phil. student; he is unit coordinator of Master of Professional Engineering and teaches Electronics to the undergraduate students in third year of engineering. He has published 85 peer- reviewed research publications and his work is consistently cited by top academic as well as industrial R&D labs.
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Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering & Robotics,
School of Electrical Engineering & Robotics- Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Science and Engineering Projects - Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Keywords
Exciton Science and Physics of Nanoscale Devices, Advanced Bionics and Medical Robotics, Multispectral Imaging and Machine Vision, Wearables, Smart Skins and Soft Robotics, Energy conversion and Energy up-conversion, Electroluminescence and Night Vision, Singlet Fission and Multi-exciton generation, Quantum sensing, Optogenetics (devices)
Discipline
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, Biomedical Engineering
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy (University of Angers)
Professional memberships and associations
Member of IEEE Member of Institute of Physics Member of SPIE ORCID iD: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6599-745X
Teaching
- EGB348: Electronics/Introduction to Organic Electronics
- ENN590/ENN592: Master of Engineering Projects (Unit Coordinator)
- PVB301: Materials and Thermal Physics
Experience
My most recent research activity is focussed on:
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- 3D reconstruction of surgical space using RGB-D cameras for Medical Robotics.
- Soft Tactile Sensors and Flexible Electronic-skin for Social and Medical Robots. PhD Projects available!
- Energy Up-conversion and Night Vision. PhD Projects available!
- Multispectral imaging for Medical Robotics. PhD Projects available!
Publications
- Jansen-van Vuuren R, Armin A, Pandey A, Burn P, Meredith P, (2016) Organic photodiodes: The future of full color detection and image sensing, Advanced Materials, 28 (24) p4766
- Ullah M, Yambem S, Moore E, Namdas E, Pandey A, (2015) Singlet fission and triplet exciton dynamics in rubrene/fullerene heterojunctions: Implications for electroluminescence, Advanced Electronic Materials, 1 (12) p1
- Pandey A, (2015) Highly efficient spin-conversion effect leading to energy up-converted electroluminescence in singlet fission photovoltaics, Scientific Reports, 5 () p1
- Fang Y, Pandey A, Nardes A, Kopidakis N, Burn P, Meredith P, (2013) A narrow optical gap small molecule acceptor for organic solar cells, Advanced Energy Materials, 3 (1) p54
- Jansen-van Vuuren R, Pivrikas A, Pandey A, Burn P, (2013) Colour selective organic photodetectors utilizing ketocyanine-cored dendrimers, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 1 (22) p3532
- Pandey A, Aljada M, Velusamy M, Burn P, Meredith P, (2012) Nanostructured, active organic-metal junctions for highly efficient charge generation and extraction in polymer-fullerene solar cells, Advanced Materials, 24 (8) p1055
- Behrends J, Schnegg A, Lips K, Thomsen E, Pandey A, Samuel I, Keeble D, (2010) Bipolaron formation in organic solar cells observed by pulsed electrically detected magnetic resonance, Physical Review Letters, 105 () p1
- Pandey A, Deakin P, Jansen-van Vuuren R, Burn P, Samuel I, (2010) Photo-rechargeable battery effect in first generation cationic-cyanine dendrimers, Advanced Materials, 22 (35) p3954
- Pandey A, Nunzi J, (2007) Rubrene/fullerene heterostructures with a half-gap electroluminescence threshold and large photovoltage, Advanced Materials, 19 (21) p3613
- Pandey A, Dabos-Seignon S, Nunzi J, (2006) Pentacene: PTCDI-C13H27 molecular blends efficiently harvest light for solar cell applications, Applied Physics Letters p1
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Ajay, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Nature Publishing Group- Scientific Reports
(Chemical Physics, Molecular Electronics, Spintronics, Photonics, Nanotechnology)
- Type
- Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellowship on Medical and Healthcare Robotics
- Type
- Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Australian Renewable Energy Agency Research Fellowship on Singlet Exciton Fission
Research projects
- Title
- New Class of Intelligent Robotic Imaging System for Keyhole Surgeries
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- AISRF53820
- Start year
- 2017
- Keywords
- Keyhole-Surgery; Stereopsis; Robot-Assisted Surgery; Soft-Tissue Tracking
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Intelligent Robotic Imaging System with Deep Learning for Keyhole Surgeries
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Ross Crawford, Professor Jonathan Roberts, Associate Professor Davide Fontanarosa - Proton to electron transducer using organic thin film transistors
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Soniya Yambem, Professor Mia Woodruff - Near Infrared Absorbing Organic Photodiodes for Biomedical and Bioelectronics Applications
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Prashant Sonar, Professor Jonathan Roberts - Developing a Macro-Micro Teleoperation system with Snake robots for Minimally Invasive Surgeries
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Leo Wu, Professor Jonathan Roberts, Professor Ross Crawford