Biography:Shekhar Bhansali

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Shekhar Bhansali
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Division Director of National Science Foundation EECS Program
Alcatel-Lucent Professor and Distinguished University Professor in the Florida International University
Personal details
BornIndia
Residence
  • Miami, Florida, U.S.
Alma mater
  • IIT Madras
  • RMIT University
Websitemems.fiu.edu/dr-bhansali/
https://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=sbhansal&org=ECCS&from_org=ECCS

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.

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]

Awards

  • Top Scholar Award from FIU in 2014[4]
  • William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award in 2011 and 2009[4]
  • Mentor of the Year Award from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2009[4]
  • Outstanding Mentor Award from the McKnight Foundation in 2004[4]
  • NSF Career Award in 2003[4]
  • In 2018, Bhansali has named as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Inventors.
  • Elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2023 "for contributions to portable real-time sensing devices for continuous monitoring".[5]

Books

  • Mems for Biomedical Applications[6]
  • Chemical Sensors 7 -and- MEMS/NEMS 7[7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Shekhar Bhansali | NSF - National Science Foundation". https://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=sbhansal&org=ECCS&from_org=ECCS. 
  2. ↑ "Google Patents". https://patents.google.com/?inventor=shekhar+bhansali&oq=shekhar+bhansali. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Curriculum Vitae of Shekhar Bhansali". https://case.fiu.edu/about/directory/people/_assets/cv/current_shekhar-bhansali-cv-aug-2016.pdf. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 "Dr. Shekhar Bhansali" (in en-US). https://mems.fiu.edu/dr-bhansali/. 
  5. ↑ "2023 NEWLY ELEVATED FELLOWS". https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2023-newly-elevated-fellows.pdf. 
  6. ↑ "Mems for Biomedical Applications - 1st Edition". https://www.elsevier.com/books/mems-for-biomedical-applications/bhansali/978-0-85709-129-1. 
  7. ↑ Hesketh, Peter J. (2006) (in en). Chemical Sensors 7 -and- MEMS/NEMS 7. The Electrochemical Society. ISBN 978-1-56677-510-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=nS5lVoPCeCAC. 

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