1987 Non-Destructive Evaluation of Bridge Decks

Development of the initial computer architecture for an expert system for Non-Destructive Evaluation of Bridge Decks. Algorithms for pattern analysis of signals from ground-penetrating radar which provided features of deterioration, were incorporated into the system.

1983 Controller for Cryo-Microscope for Freezing Bovine Embryos

Freezing of bovine embryos requires controlling of ice-phase fronts to envelop an embryo in a time-ordered fashion, requiring among other elements: a controller. Shiva co-designed and built and tested the controller achieve the necessary freezing control dynamics.

1981-1982 Tadoma Research

In deaf-blind individuals, an amazing form of tactile communication takes place where the hand is used to sense up to 7 different signals. Shiva was fortunate to do research at the MIT Speech Lab data gathering and analysis of speech phonemes.