Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Ph.D., Virginia Tech

B.E. (Hons.), Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

Bio

Dr. Bhargava will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA in Fall 2024. Since 2022, she is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow In the Physical Intelligence department at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the BADER lab in the Department of Radiology at University of Chicago, IL, USA from 2020-2022. She received her Ph.D. in the Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics department at Virginia Tech, advised by Prof. Shima Shahab. Her research interests lie in the areas of acoustic-structure interaction, therapeutic ultrasound, cavitation, nonlinear acoustics, mechanics of soft materials, tissue ablation, biomedical micro-robotics, and nonlinear vibrations.