Healthcare Research and Related Technologies: Proceedings of Nerc 2022

Prof. Lalit M. Pandey is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was awarded an Erasmus Mundus India4EU fellowship to pursue research at the Laboratoire des Matériaux et du Génie Physique (LMGP), Grenoble-INP, France from 2010 to 2012. Before joining the IIT Guwahati, he worked as a Scientist with the Central Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India from 2009 to 2014, and researched on water and air pollution in agro-based industries. He has received several awards, including the BRSI Malaviya Memorial Award (Young Faculty) 2020, Shastri Covid-19 Pandemic Response Grant (SCPRG) 2020, the DST-UKIERI Award (2018), the IEI (The Institution of Engineers [India]) Young Engineers Award (2017), Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Faculty Award (2014) and an Early Career Research Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India. His main research interests include biointerfaces and biomaterials, biochemical engineering, and environmental biotechnology. He has published over one hundred three research articles in international journals, more than thirty three book chapters and serves on the editorial board of five international journals. He is serving as Associate Editor in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. He has co-edited three books, titled "Biointerface Engineering: Prospects in Medical Diagnostics and Drug Delivery", "Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery: Principles and Potential" and "Nanoscale Engineering of Biomaterials: Properties and Applications", published by Springer Nature. He is a life member of the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), the National Academy of Sciences (NASI), the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), and Nano and Molecular Society (India), and serves as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Raghvendra Gupta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and an Associate Faculty at the Jyoti and Bhupat Mehta School of Health Sciences and Technology and Centre for Sustainable Polymers at IIT Guwahati. He obtained B Tech in Chemical Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (now HBTU), Kanpur, UP, India and M Eng in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. After working for few years in the industry, he joined for PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Before joining Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Guwahati in 2014, he worked at University of Sydney, Institute of High Performance Computing, A-STAR, Singapore; BITS Pilani, K K Birla Campus, Goa. He is interested in understanding transport processes in different chemical process equipment and systems, physiological systems and biomedical devices. He has extensively worked on the flow and heat transfer in two-phase systems in microchannels using a synergistic combination of experimental, theoretical and computational techniques. In health sciences, he is particularly interested in understanding transport processes in cardiovascular and pulmonary system. He has more than thirty publications in International journals and serves as a reviewer for a number of International Journals.
Dr. Rajkumar P. Thummer is as an Assistant Professor and is a Principal Investigator of the lab "Laboratory for Stem Cell Engineering and Regenerative Medicine" at IIT Guwahati, India. He did his B. Pharm from Anand Pharmacy College, Anand, Gujarat, and then obtained his Master's in Biotechnology from the University of Essex, UK. Later, he completed his PhD in Stem Cell Biology from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands in the year 2010. Further, he gained more than three years of postdoctoral research experience at the University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany and then moved back to India at IIT Guwahati. His specialization is in Stem Cell Biology with an experience of more than 15 years. He is the recipient of the Young Scientist Award by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He has published several manuscripts in national and international peer-reviewed journals and serves as an editorial board member and reviewer of many journals.
Dr. Rajiv K. Kar is an Assistant Professor at Jyoti and Bhupat Mehta School of Health Sciences and Technology, IIT Guwahati. He obtained B.Pharma in Pharmaceutical Sciences from BPUT, Odisha and M.S. from the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) with a specialization in informatics. He received his PhD from Bose Institute, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. While working as a Doctoral scholar, he designs anti-freeze peptides, which now have proven utility in medical cryopreservation. Other areas of his thesis include antimicrobial and anti-amyloid peptides, which later won him the Jharna Rani Samal Best PhD student award from the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Society of India at IISc, Bangalore, in 2016. He did a Post-doc in quantum mechanics at Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (HUJI). His post-doctoral research was supported by Lady Davis (2017-2020) Trust as Shunbrun Post-Doctoral Fellowship and Arskin Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Later he worked as a Scientist at Technische Universitat Berlin, where he focused on applying advanced simulations and data science methods to biological systems. Einstein Foundation Berlin financially supported his research in Germany (2020-2021). His current research at IIT Guwahati includes developing biomarker detection processes for point-of-care diagnostics and translating them into suitable sensors and medical devices. It consists of an application-oriented approach with experimental biotechnology, nanotechnology, and computational spectroscopy. He authored more than 35 original research and five review articles in journals of international repute.

拉利特·M·潘迪教授是印度理工學院古瓦哈提分校生物科學與生物工程系的副教授。他在德里印度理工學院獲得化學工程博士學位。2010年至2012年，他獲得Erasmus Mundus India4EU獎學金，在法國格勒諾布爾INP的材料與物理工程實驗室進行研究。在加入古瓦哈提分校之前，他於2009年至2014年在印度環境與森林部的中央污染控制委員會擔任科學家，研究農業相關產業中的水和空氣污染。他獲得多項獎項，包括2020年BRSI馬拉維亞紀念獎（青年教師）、2020年Shastri Covid-19疫情應對獎助金（SCPRG）、2018年DST-UKIERI獎、2017年IEI（印度工程師學會）青年工程師獎、2014年INSPIRE教師獎，以及來自印度科學與技術部科學與工程研究委員會（SERB）的早期職業研究獎。他的主要研究興趣包括生物界面和生物材料、生化工程以及環境生物技術。他在國際期刊上發表了超過103篇研究文章，撰寫了超過33篇書章，並擔任五本國際期刊的編輯委員會成員。他在《Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology》擔任副編輯。他共同編輯了三本書，分別是《Biointerface Engineering: Prospects in Medical Diagnostics and Drug Delivery》、《Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery: Principles and Potential》和《Nanoscale Engineering of Biomaterials: Properties and Applications》，這些書籍由Springer Nature出版。他是國際工程師協會（IAENG）、國家科學院（NASI）、印度化學工程師學會（IIChE）和納米與分子學會（印度）的終身會員，並擔任多本同行評審期刊的審稿人。

拉格文德拉·古普塔博士是古瓦哈提分校化學工程系的副教授，同時也是健康科學與技術學院及可持續聚合物中心的副教員。他在印度烏普的哈考特·巴特勒技術學院（現為HBTU）獲得化學工程學士學位，並在印度班加羅爾的印度科學院獲得航空航天工程碩士學位。經過幾年的行業工作後，他在澳大利亞悉尼大學化學工程系攻讀博士學位。2014年加入古瓦哈提分校化學工程系之前，他曾在悉尼大學、新加坡A-STAR高效能計算研究所及印度果阿的比特斯比拉尼K K比爾拉校區工作。他對不同化學過程設備和系統、生理系統及生物醫學設備中的傳輸過程感興趣。他在微通道中使用實驗、理論和計算技術的協同組合，廣泛研究了兩相系統中的流動和熱傳遞。在健康科學方面，他特別關注心血管和肺部系統中的傳輸過程。他在國際期刊上發表了超過30篇論文，並擔任多本國際期刊的審稿人。

拉吉庫馬爾·P·圖默博士是古瓦哈提分校的助理教授，並擔任“幹細胞工程與再生醫學實驗室”的首席研究員。他在古吉拉特邦的安納德藥學院獲得藥學學士學位，隨後在英國埃塞克斯大學獲得生物技術碩士學位。2010年，他在荷蘭格羅寧根大學獲得幹細胞生物學博士學位。此後，他在...