Shekhar Bhansali

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

Short description: American computer scientist

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

↑ ^1.0 ^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.
↑ "Google Patents". https://patents.google.com/?inventor=shekhar+bhansali&oq=shekhar+bhansali.
↑ ^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.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 ^4.4 ^4.5 "Dr. Shekhar Bhansali" (in en-US). https://mems.fiu.edu/dr-bhansali/.
↑ "2023 NEWLY ELEVATED FELLOWS". https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2023-newly-elevated-fellows.pdf.
↑ "Mems for Biomedical Applications - 1st Edition". https://www.elsevier.com/books/mems-for-biomedical-applications/bhansali/978-0-85709-129-1.
↑ 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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[:0-1] 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.

[:1-3] 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.

[:2-4] 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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