Academic Biography

I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. I am also a core faculty member and Director of Biomechanics at the Cleveland Clinic's Cardiovascular Innovation Research Center. My research group combines soft robotics, 3D printing, biosensing, and computational tools to build advanced physical and digital biomechanical models of disease.

Prior to this, I had a short stint as a Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology. I received my postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where I worked in the lab of Prof. Ellen Roche at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), on the development of a variety of soft robotic implantable devices.

Earlier, I earned my Ph.D. at Purdue University, School of Industrial Engineering, from the group of Prof. Ramses V. Martinez. During this time, I published on soft robotics, flexible electronics, 3D printing, biomedical sensing, metamaterials, and scalable nanofabrication.

Before coming to Purdue, I received my Bachelor's degree in Production Engineering from Jadavpur University, India. While still an undergrad, I spent a year as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany, where I worked at the Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics (BIBA) funded by an Erasmus Mundus fellowship.