About
My name is Pariksheet Nanda and you’re probably reading this to find out who I am and/or why I care so much about µManager.
The short version is: I love programming; I first got involved with the software freedom culture (mostly Gentoo GNU/Linux) in the months between graduating and finding employment at Andor, and so µManager allowed me to reconcile my hobbies with my professional life.
I got my college degree in Electrical Engineering, and then joined Andor Technology as a Support Engineer. I worked briefly with the camera and spectroscopy division for a few months before settling into the company’s newer, exciting microscopy systems division. It was fun not only because of traveling for field work and being able to meet clients face-to-face, but also being able to work closely with nearly all departments of the company with their highly motivated people. After 6 years, the US systems division staff had grown 4 times, and it was a good time to leave for academia with so many wonderful people to continue the journey. Having PhD students and professors as clients showed me the edifying experience that the educational environment has on character, and for that my own academic interests I joined the academic research community at a microscopy development lab.
Wiki Pages
These are the wiki pages I contribute to and maintain:
- DeviceAdapters
- Plugins
- General Documentation
- Operating Systems
Systems Setup
Over the years, I’ve helped a number of students and professors get setup with µManager:
| Institution | Principal Investigator |
|---|---|
| Connecticut, University of | Dave Knecht |
| California, University of, at San Diego | Karen Oegema |
| Carnegie Mellon | Marcel Bruchez |
| National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences | Jerry Yakel |
| Cornell, Weill Medical College | Joel Baumgart |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Daniel Heller |
| Luisiana State University Health Science Center | Edward Wojcik |
| North Carolina, University of, at Chapel Hill | Anne Taylor |
| Texas, University of, Southwestern Medical Center | Kate Luby-Phelps |
| Cornell University | Peng Chen |
| Michigan, University of | Allen Liu |
| Sandia National Labs at Livermore | Carl Hayden |
| Harvard Medical School | Rachel Wilson |
| Yale University | Derek Toomre |
| Ohio State University | Tony Brown |
Acknowledgements
I wish to thank Steve Ikeda (NIH) for training me on what practical setups for Groups and Presets should be, since that generic mode of interface organization was new to me. Organizing Device Properties in a sane way paid off many times over in helping other users set up their systems.
I also would like to thank Paul Forscher (Yale) for teaching me the canonical troubleshooting approach (the nabble search web link), showing me how he setup and ran his systems with Matlab, and his extensive involvement and patience in wading through intermittent hardware communication problems.
Finally, I would like to thank Nico Stuurman (UCSF) for accepting my patches and granting me repository access to maintain a part of the C++ code. Contributing code to an active project I really cared about was a huge confidence boost for me and I felt like I made it as a free software programmer, as well as become part of the community.