EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

2022-Present: Post-Doctoral Associate, University of Florida (PI: Prof. Christine  E. Schmidt)

2016-2021: Ph.D., National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research- Ahmedabad, India (PI: Dr. Akshay Srivastava)

2014-2016: M.S.Pharm (Biotechnology), National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Mohali, India. (PI: Dr. Abhay H.Pande)

2010-2014: Bachelors in Pharmacy, Gujarat Technological University, India

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

• Postdoctoral Associate, University of Florida, USA, 2022-Present

• Senior Research Fellow, NIPER-Ahmedabad, India, 2021-2022

• Graduate Research Fellow, NIPER-Ahmedabad, India, 2016-2021

• Masters in Biotechnology, NIPER-Mohali, India, 2015-2016 

HONORS AND AWARDS:

1. TERMIS Outstanding Postdoc Award (2025). 

2. Invited speaker, I-Corps Post-Doc Appreciation Week Event (2025). 

3. MBI Profressional Development Fund Awardee (2024). 

4. Invited Speaker, UF BME Seminar Talks (2024). 

5. Keynote Speaker, UF Biomaterial Symposium Day (2024). 

6. Judge, Graduate Student Mentoring Award (2023). 

7. Postdoc Excellence Award, University of Florida, Department of Biomedical Engineering (2023). 

8. UF BME Industry Travel Award, awarded to attend the BMES conference (2022, 2023, and 2024). 

9. Selected Participant, Future Faculty Workshop funded by NSF, Texas A&M University (2023). 

10. Travel Grant Recipient, Bio Fabrication International Conference, Italy (2022). 

Academic Competitions 

1. Third Prize, Poster Presentation at the International Conference on Neurological Disorders and Therapeutics, NIPER-Ahmedabad, India (2019). 

2. Second Prize, Hindi Poem Writing Competition, NIPER-Ahmedabad (2020). 

3. First Prize, Hindi Essay Writing Competition, NIPER-Ahmedabad (2019). 

4. Star Performer, MS-NIPER81mgK16 Talent Hunt Competition, NIPER-Mohali (2015). 

Entrance and Qualification Examinations 

1. Qualified NIPER PhD Entrance Test, All India Rank (AIR) 2 (2016). 

2. Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), Life Science, AIR 341 (2015). 

3. Qualified Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT), AIR 2645 (2015). 

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:

• Awarded seed funding of 2380 $ to develop point-of-care devices for lipid estimation and kidney disease biomarker analysis (Funding agency: NIPER, Ahmedabad-India) (Role: Researcher)

• Team leader for Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Student Teams, and awarded 3570 $ to develop punctal plugs for dry eye disease (Funding agency: Department of Biotechnology, Government of India) (Role: Team Leader)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

1.   Peer reviewer for (i) Journal of Applied Polymer Science; (ii) Smart Medicine; (iii) Plos One; (iv) Bioengineering and Translational Medicine; (v) Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine; (vi) Soft Matters; (vii) Bioactive Materials; (viii) Biomaterial Science, (ix) Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine, (x) Journal of Material Chemistry B.

2. Secretary/ Treasurer of Special Interest Group for Drug Delivery (Society for Biomaterials) (2023-25).

3. Program Chair of Special Interest Group for Biomaterial Education (Society for Biomaterials) (2023-25).

4.    Session organizer for the Society for Biomaterials Conference, Chicago (2025) 

5.    Program Chair for UF Neuro Postdoctoral Professional Development committee (2023-24).

6.    Reviewer for Biomedical Engineering Society abstracts (2023 and 2024).

7.    Reviewer for Society of Biomaterials abstracts (2024)

8.    Poster judge at 12th Pruitt Research Day, UF BME (2023 and 2024).