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Layered Rock Pattern

Principal Investigator

Layered Rock Pattern
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
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Oregon State University                                                                                                                                  
  • Associate Professor, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering , 2024-Present           
University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), El Paso, TX
  • Associate Professor (Tenured), Metallurgy, Materials Science, and Biomedical Engineering, 2020-2024
  • Assistant Professor, Metallurgy, Materials Science, and Biomedical Engineering , 2014-2020
  • Graduate Program Director, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, 2021-2024
 
​​ACADEMIC TRAINING 
                                                                                                                                 
  • RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Japan , 2014
        Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, Nanotechnology
  • The Ohio State University, OH, USA, 2010
        Post-Doc Researcher, Biomedical Engineering
  • Clemson University, SC, USA , 2001 -2006
        Ph.D., Bioengineering
  • Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 1999 - 2001           
        M.S., Biomedical Engineering
  • Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India, 1995 - 1999
        B.S., Pharmaceutical Science and Technology
 
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
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  • 2003: Graduate Research Fellowship at Clemson University Bioengineering Department, USA
  • 2008: Distinguished Post-Doctoral Fellow Award at the Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • 2009: David & Lindsay Morgenthaler Endowed Fellowship Finalist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
  • 2010: Foreign Post-Doctoral Researcher Fellowship at RIKEN, Japan
  • 2016-19: NIH-Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Pilot Project Award (SC2) Early Career award
  • 2019: ICORD Distinguished Visiting Scholar awarded through the ICORD Visiting Scholar (scientist/clinician) program at ICORD, Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • 2020: Dean’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Research in the College of Engineering, UTEP
  • 2020: College of Engineering Outstanding Mentor Award sponsored by the NIH BUILD SCHOLARS program at UTEP
  • 2020-21: Dialogues in Leadership participant as the DiL cohort of 2020-21, UTEP
  • 2021: Shortlisted for the 3D Printing for a Better World Award. 
  • 2022: TAMEST 2022 Annual Conference Protégé for Forward Texas Imperatives for Health. 
  • 2023: Nominated from UTEP for the TAMEST Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards for Life Sciences.
  • 2022-23: BSURE (Boosting Spaceflight Underrepresented Researcher Equity Program) fellow.
  • 2022: ASGSR MSI engagement fellow and travel stipend awardee for ASGSR annual meeting, Houston, USA.
  • 2024: TAMEST 2024 Annual Conference Protégé for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 
  • 2024: Changemakers: Borderland Women in Tech, El Paso Community Foundation Award. 

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