Postdoctoral Fellow, Nanoscience Research Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002-2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 2001-2002 PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001 MS, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998 BS, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 1995 Department Graduate Committee Reviewer, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Macromolecules, Langmuir

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