Hello my name is Michael Maslakowski. The objective of this page is to streamline access to information about myself for hiring and graduate programs. I will keep an updated record of major achievements and projects here, in a compact form. Take a brief scroll to see if any topics are of interest for the reason that you have been directed here.
If you need to contact me my email address is michael@maslakowski.net
I have been apart of the ultrasound acoustic research group under the direction of Professor Mohamed Almekkawy <mka9@psu.edu> since October 2017 until I graduated in 2021.
Some examples of physical laboratory work and design I have accomplished are:
Designed multichannel imaging/data arrays for ultrasonic excitation and computer processing/DAC
Designed, constructed and programed a high precision Computer Numeric Controlled (CNC) arm for medical imaging that heavily focused in custom application specific robotics.
Here is a cool demonstration I preformed to showcase it.
Developed startup and execution procedures through software for high voltage RF excitation experiments
Designed and physically fabricated Ultrasonic Transducers (UTs) with piezo ceramic materials along with creating testing procedures for comparison.
Within my time with my research group I have had several opportunities for formal presentation and publication of work here are some examples. I plan on linking updated work whenever possible.
Accepted to the 14th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference
The Characterization and Assembly of an Efficient Cost Effective Focused Ultrasound Transducer
M. S. Maslakowski, S. J. Ilham, T. Hall, T. Subramanian, M. Kiani and M. Almekkawy, “The Characterization and Assembly of an Efficient, Cost Effective Focused Ultrasound Transducer,” 2020 IEEE 14th Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS), Dallas, TX, USA, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/DCAS51144.2020.9330669.
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Penn State College of Engineering Research Initiative (CERI) Research Experience for Undergraduates 2018
IEEE Student Activities Conference, West Virginia University 2019 1st Prize paper submission.
Ultrasound Computed Tomography (UT) and Its Applications in The Imaging of Tissue
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Penn State Graduate department Center for Acoustics and Vibration (CAV) Poster Competition 2018
Ultrasound Computed Tomography (UT) and Its Applications in The Imaging of Tissue (Poster)
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Internal write ups that showcase ongoing work:
high procession cartesian positioning system
single sender receiver pair for the use of validation within an ultrasonic system
My Fall 2018 Hackathon project received 3rd place overall technical hack.
To put it simple its a Wii that is independently self contained. All games are pre stored within the new OSs on a hard drive, The Wii has a 9800mAh battery to allow it to last around 4 hours and has a screen for you or your friends to play on. The device can still operate as a standard Wii regardless of the environment, additionally it can still be played and powered on a standard TV.
My Spring 2019 submission Received 1st place over technical hack.
The Drawl assist can print out in natural Latin writing what is being said out loud in real time with the user.
Here is a video of it’s operation
The break down for this projected started with integrating Google’s talk to text API to allow real time voice transcribing to be passed on to be printed. Next we creating our own font in G-code, a machine interpretable language, that would still look natural however require very few brushstrokes to maintain a sufficient speed. From here on we took the text received from the TTT applet and converted into sentences that auto complies the G-code base on the general case functions we wrote. This is then passed directly into the machines interpreter and Each operation is executed by the CNC drawling machine.
More details about it can be found from the university’s own publication
