Education California Institute Of Technology, Pasadena (CA) Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering, June 1996 Master of Science in Chemical Engineering, June 1993 Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay (India) Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering, July 1990 Professional Experience 2010- present: Professor of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering 2004-2010: Associate Professor of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering University of South Florida 1997-2004: Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1995-2005: Post-Doctoral Researcher Center for Polymeric Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies (IBM-Stanford-University of California at Davis) 1990-1995: Graduate Research Assistant California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Interfacial Phenomena, Polymeric Materials, Organic – Inorganic Composites, Self – Assembled Systems, Molecular Recognition, Nanoscale/Smart Materials