Shekhar Bhansali

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Shekhar Bhansali
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Division Director of National Science Foundation EECS Program
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Shekhar Bhansali is the division director in Electrical, Communication and Cyber Systems (ECCS) at the National Science Foundation. He also serves as an Alcatel-Lucent Professor and Distinguished University Professor in the Florida International University (FIU) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. [1] Bhansali’s main research interests are in nanotechnology, biosensors, and microfluidics. He holds 40 patents, [2] has published over 300 publications, and has advised more than 40 Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows in research. [1] [3] He was elevated to a Fellow of the IEEE in 2023.

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Education

Bhansali received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in metallurgical engineering at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. [3] He then received his Master of Technology (M.Tech) from Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Ph.D. in electrical engineering at RMIT University Australia. [1]

Career

Shekhar Bhansali began his career in 1995 as a lecturer in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He came to the United States in 1988 and joined CMSM, ECECS Department, University of Cincinnati as a research faculty. [3] In 2000, he joined University of South Florida and led a number of inter-connected interdisciplinary graduate student research and training programs, including NSF-IGERT, NSF’s Bridge to the Doctorate and Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Fellowship Programs to increase diversity, retention and graduation rates. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Shekhar Bhansali | NSF - National Science Foundation". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  2. "Google Patents". patents.google.com. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  3. 1 2 3 "Curriculum Vitae of Shekhar Bhansali" (PDF). Florida International University.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Dr. Shekhar Bhansali". Bio-Mems & Microsystems. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  5. "2023 NEWLY ELEVATED FELLOWS" (PDF). IEEE.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 30, 2022.
  6. Bhansali, Shekhar; Vasudev, Abhay (18 July 2012). Mems for Biomedical Applications - 1st Edition. Elsevier Science. ISBN   978-0-85709-129-1 . Retrieved 2020-12-10.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  7. Hesketh, Peter J. (2006). Chemical Sensors 7 -and- MEMS/NEMS 7. The Electrochemical Society. ISBN   978-1-56677-510-6.