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| Sameer V. Dalvi, Ph. D. (IIT Bombay) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Particle formation, stabilization and functionalization for drug delivery; Microbubble Engineering for Imaging and drug delivery, Supercritical Fluid Processing, Thermodynamics of high-pressure fluid phase equilibria |
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| Subhash Deodhar, Ph. D. (Syracuse University) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer Operations, Mass Transfer Operations |
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| Mukund H. Divekar, Ph. D. (IIT Bombay) |
| Adjunct Professor |
| Research Interests: Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow, Process Control and Design and Fabrication of result oriented modular experimental set-ups |
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| Chinmay Ghoroi, Ph. D. (IIT Bombay) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Solid Phase Reactions, Powder Coating and Powder Flow Characterization, Drug Formulation in Solid Form, Cement and Pharmaceutical Powder Processing |
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| Dwarkanath Dattatrye Kale, Ph. D. (University of Salford) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Rheology, Waste management, Bio fuels |
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| S. L. Narayanamurthy, Ph. D. (University of Bradford) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Teaching Interests: Chemical Engineering Education, Food Process Engineering, Separation Processes, Membrane Separation |
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| Nitin Padhiyar, Ph. D. (IIT Bombay) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Process Optimization and Control |
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| Prakash K. Paranjape, Ph. D. (IIT Bombay) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Process Control, Thermodynamics, Chemical Processes, Engineering Diagrams and other topics in Piping Engineering. |
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| Supreet Saini, Ph. D. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests:Bioremediation & Pathway Engineering, Dynamics of Complex Systems, Signal Transduction in bacteria, Bacterial Pathogenesis
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| Suchira Sen, Ph. D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: I use simulation techniques such as Molecular Dynamics simulations to study the effect of molecular-scale phenomena on structure and dynamics in polymeric systems. The specific areas of interest are structure-property relations in polymer-nanocomposites, rheology of long chain polymeric melts and biopolymers. |
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| Prachi Thareja, Ph. D. (University of Pittsburgh) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: In-situ rheology of crystallizing fatty acid pastes, Powder Coating and Powder Flow Characterization, Rheology and Small Angle Light Scattering of surfactant solutions. |
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| Mukta Tripathy, Ph. D. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Statistical Mechanics, Liquid State Theory, Self-Assembly in Soft Matter, Non-Equilibrium Behavior of Complex Fluids |
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| Arnab Sarkar, Ph. D. (Catholic University of America) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Optical fiber fabrication processes, Vapor phase processing of amorphous materials, Liquid phase processing of materials |
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| Pratyush Dayal, Ph. D. (University of Akron) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Self-oscillating polymer gels, Structure development in polymer blends and solutions, Polymer processing |
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| Babji Srinivasan, Ph. D. (Texas Tech University) |
| Assistant Professor |
| (Jointly With Electrical Engineering) |
| Research Interests: Control loop performance monitoring, Fault diagnosis in process systems, System identification and control of droplets in microfluidic loop devices, Experimental study and analysis of droplet traffic in basic microfluidic devices, Frequency domain analysis of Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells. |
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| Bhaskar Datta, Ph. D. (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Nucleic acid based chemical biology, Synthesis of modified nucleic acids, Development of bioanalytical assays and sensor systems, Assembly of functional nanostructures and nanomaterials. |
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| Sriram Kanvah Gundimeda, Ph. D. (IIT Bombay) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Synthesis of donor-acceptor substituted photochemically active substrates and their photochemical and photo-physical studies in room temperature ionic liquids (including synthesis of Ionic Liquids) and organic solvents |
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| Iti Gupta, Ph. D. (IIT Bombay) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Synthesis of Porphyrnoids and Related Macrocycles with Novel Properties, Photophysics of Covalent and Non-Covalent Multipigment Systems, Design and Synthesis of Macrocyclic Receptors for Anions and Cations |
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| Sudhanshu Sharma, Ph. D. (IISc., Bangalore) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Materials, Electrochemistry, Catalysis |
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| Chandrakant S. Desai, Ph. D. (University of Texas) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Modeling, testing and validations for engineering materials and interfaces/joints, Computational (finite element) methods , development and validations, Application to wide range of problems: Geo- and Structural mechanics, Soil- structure interaction, earthquake analysis and liquefaction, slopes, dams and tunnels, flow through porous media (seepage and consolidation), composites (e.g. computer chips in electronic packaging. |
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| Sudhir K. Jain, Ph. D. (California Institute of Technology) |
| Director; Professor |
| Research Interests: Earthquake Engineering, Structural Dynamics |
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| Ashwini Kumar, Ph. D. (University of Waterloo) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Stability and large deformation of structures, Theoretical stress analysis, Post-buckling and non-linear response of laminated plates. |
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| Shashank Pathak, M. Tech. (IIT Kanpur) |
| Assistant Research Professor |
| Research Interests: Random Vibrations, Earthquake Engineering |
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| Amit Prashant, Ph. D. (University of Tennessee) |
| Associate Professor |
| Research Interests: Constitutive Modeling for Granular Materials, Numerical Modeling of Geotechnical Structures, Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering |
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| Ajanta Sachan, Ph. D. (University of Tennessee) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Material Characterization, Dynamic Behavior of Soils, Liquefaction Potential and Induced Lateral Displacement, Strain Localization using DIA Technique and Microfabric Study using XRD, SEM, AFM. |
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| Vimal Mishra, Ph. D. (Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Surface Water Hydrology, Climate Variability and Climate Change, Global Food and Water Security, Water Resources Management, Large Scale Hydrologic Modeling |
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| Gregory A. MacRae, Ph. D. (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Structural design, structural modelling, steel and composite structures, structural monitoring, loss estimation, decision tools, communicating risk. |
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| Bireswar Das, Ph. D. (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Computational Complexity Theory and Algorithms, Algebra and Computation |
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| Pawan J. Lingras, Ph. D. (University of Regina) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Approximate Reasoning, Pattern Recognition, Expert Systems, Information Retrieval, Database Management Systems, Object Oriented Programming, Principles of Programming Languages, Data Structures, Analysis of Algorithms, Neural Networks. |
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| Krishna Prasad, Ph. D. (University of Cambridge) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Consumer behaviour, Behavioural & Neuroeconomics, Cognitive Psychology, Decision making |
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| Arup Lal Chakraborty, Ph. D. ( University of Strathclyde) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Tunable diode laser spectroscopy for gas parameter measurement, Calibration-free wavelength modulation spectroscopy for recovery of absolute gas absorption line shapes, Fiber-optic sensing |
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| Ramesh Gaonkar, Ph. D. (Syracuse University) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Inter-disciplinary Curriculum Design and Evaluation, Applications of Microprocessor & Microcontrollers, Designing Embedded Systems |
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| Ragavan K., Ph. D. (IISc Bangalore) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Diagnostic testing and condition monitoring of power apparatus; Mathematical modeling of transformers, Rotating machines, System identification in frequency domain |
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| Nihar Ranjan Mohapatra, Ph. D. (IIT Bombay) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Semiconductor Devices and Technology |
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| Joycee M. Mekie, Ph. D. (IIT Bombay) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: VLSI Design, Asynchronous circuit design |
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| K. V. V. Murthy, Ph. D. (IIT Bombay) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Signal Processing, Image Processing, Wavelets, Neural Networks, Numerical Analysis |
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| Naran M. Pindoriya, Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Restructuring power systems- Technical and economical issues, Applications of heuristic optimization algorithms in power system, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and their application to load and price forecasting, Integration of renewable energy resources in electricity markets |
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| Surendra Ranganath, Ph. D. (University of California, Davis) |
| Professor |
| Research Interests: Digital Image and Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, Neural Networks |
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| S. Rajendran, M. Tech (IIT Madras) |
| Associate Teaching Professor |
| Research Interests: High Speed Packaging Machines – VFFS and HFFS technologies, Liquid Packing Machines – High speed applications, CO2 Laser - Metal Processing Applications, Control Strategies for Robots moving a very Flexible Structure |
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| Babji Srinivasan, Ph. D. (Texas Tech University) |
| Assistant Professor |
| (Jointly With Chemical Engineering) |
| Research Interests: Control loop performance monitoring, Fault diagnosis in process systems, System identification and control of droplets in microfluidic loop devices, Experimental study and analysis of droplet traffic in basic microfluidic devices, Frequency domain analysis of Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells. |
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| Uttama Lahiri, Ph. D. (Vanderbilt University) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Human Computer Interaction, Human Robot Interaction. |
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| Sharmita Lahiri, Ph. D. (University of Houston) |
| Assistant Professor (English) |
| Research Interests: Indian writing in english, Postcolonial literature and theory, Feminist literature and theory, Multiethnic literature, Writing and composition |
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| Rita Kothari, Ph. D. (Gujarat University) |
| Associate Professor (English) |
| Research Interests: Hinglish, Communities in Banni (Kutch), Cultural History of Sindh & Gujarat, Issues of Language & Identity in the Indian Middle Class |
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| Arnapurna Rath, Ph. D. (IIT Bombay) |
| Assistant Professor (English) |
| Research Interests: Indian Fiction Written in English, Novels of Amitav Ghosh, Bakhtin Studies, Postcolonial Theories, Creative Writing, Hyperliterature and Blogging |
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| Leo Bezies, M. Education (Sorbonne University of Paris) |
| Instructor (French) |
| Research Interests: E.learning, The uses of cinema in primary school, Cross cultural education |
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| Jaison A. Manjaly, Ph. D. (IIT Kharagpur) |
| Assistant Professor (Philosophy) |
| Research Interests: Metaphysical issues of mind and consciousness, Panpsychism, Metaphors of mind, Presuppositions in cognitive science, Ecological approaches to cognition, Cognitive archeology, Classical Indian theories of mind |
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| Srinivas Reddy, Ph. D. (University of California) |
| Assistant Professor (South & Southest Asian Studies) |
| Research Interests: Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu literary traditions, Vijayanagara history, Indian classical music traditions, Translation studies. |
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| Anulekha Dhara, Ph. D. (IIT Delhi) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Nonsmooth Optimization |
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| Naraparaju Kishore Kumar, Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Nonconforming spectral element methods, Tensor decompositions |
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| D. V. Pai, Ph. D. (IIT Bombay) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Approximation of vector-valued functions; Stability and well-posedness in optimisation and approximation |
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| Jagmohan Tyagi, Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Ordinary differential equations, Elliptic partial differential equations |
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| B. D. Agarwal, Ph. D. (Illinois Institute of Technology) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Solid Mechanics and Design, Composite Materials, Theoretical and Experimental Stress Analysis |
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| Atul Bhargav, Ph. D. (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Palladium-based composite membranes for Hydrogen purification in fuel cell system applications, Fuel cell systems design and simulation, Control algorithms for fuel cell systems |
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| Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Ph. D. (INPG, Grenoble, France) |
| Visiting Associate Professor |
| Research Interests: Integration of judgmental information for sustainable supply chain planning and forecasting strategies, Behavioral operations management, Simulation-based optimisation of discrete event dynamic systems. |
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| M. Damodaran, Ph. D. (Cornell University) |
| Professor |
| Research Interests: Aerospace Engineering: Aerodynamics, Flight Mechanics and Aeroelasticity, Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computational Modeling of Engineered Systems, Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization |
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| Brijesh Eshpuniyani, Ph. D. (Purdue University) |
| Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests:Fluid Mechanics, Applied Mathematics |
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| Sachin Goyal, Ph. D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Computational Dynamics, Mechanics and Controls with applications primarily in micro-scale biological systems, Continuum-dynamics and multi-body-dynamics based modeling (and inverse modeling) of DNA (Deoxy-ribo nucleic acid), proteins and their interactions, Constitutive law modeling of bio-filaments from their Molecular Dynamics simulations, Mechanical characterization of bio-filaments from single-molecule experiments and atomic force microscopy. |
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| Vinod Narayanan, Ph. D. (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Hydrodynamic stability and transition to turbulence, Chaotic advection, Compressible flows |
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| Harish Palanthandalam-Madapusi, Ph. D. (University of Michigan) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Systems and Control Theory, System Identification (data-based modeling), Estimation and Kalman Filtering, Input Reconstruction, Applications of Above Areas to Mechanical and Biomechanical Problems. |
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| N. Ramakrishnan, Ph. D. (IIT Bombay) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Machining of Composites, Non-traditional Machining Processes (EDM, AJM, etc), Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Industrial Hydraulics and Servo-Hydraulics |
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| Debi Prasad Roy, Ph. D. (T.H. Aachen) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Fluid Dynamics and Fluid Machinery |
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| Girish Kumar Sharma, Ph. D. (Moscow Power Engineering Institute) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Thermal Engineering |
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| N. V. Suryanarayana, Ph. D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Convective heat transfer with and without phase change, heat-transfer augmentation, heat transfer under microgravity conditions. |
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| Amey Karnik, Ph. D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Modeling and control of energy systems, Robust control for multivariable and non-linear systems, Automation for low cost technologies. |
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| Amit Arora, Ph. D. (The Pennsylvania State University) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Friction stir welding, Heat transfer and visco-plastic flow |
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| Abhijit Mishra, Ph. D. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: X-Ray Diffraction, Membrane properties, Cell-penetrating and Antimicrobial Peptides, Peptide-lipid interactions |
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| Emila Panda, Ph. D. (Max Planck Institute for Metals Research and University of Stuttgart) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Experimental and theoretical investigations of thin films and nanostructured materials, Microstructural characterization of thin films using various experimental techniques, Thin film solar cells, Structure-property correlations in functional oxides |
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| Ambarish Kunwar, Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Biophysics, Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics, Computational Modeling |
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| A. S. Mahajan, Ph. D. (University of Wisconsin, Madison) |
| Visiting Professor |
| Research Interests: Nuclear Reaction, Positron Annihilation Studies. |
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| Anand Sengupta, Ph. D. (IUCAA Pune) |
| Assistant Professor |
| Research Interests: Detection of gravitational waves, Aspects of CMB Data analysis. |
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| Tannistha Samanta, Ph. D. (University of Maryland) |
| Assistant Professor (Sociology) |
| Research Interests: Social demography, aging in developing countries, gender, public policy, health and quantitative methods. |
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| Rosa Maria Perez, Ph. D. (ISCTE, Lisbon) |
| Visiting Professor (Anthropology) |
| Research Interests: Social structures, Social segregation, Subaltern studies, Fieldwork methodology, Portuguese colonialism and postcolonialism in India, Globalisation and Diaspora, Anthropology and Cinema |
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| Meera M. Sunny, Ph. D. (University of Warwick) |
| Assistant Professor (Psychology) |
| Research Interests: Visual Attention, Attention capture, Visual marking |
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| Malavika Subramanyam, D. Sc. (Harvard University) |
| Assistant Professor (Social Epidemiology) |
| Research Interests: The influence of socioeconomic context (at multiple levels and in multiple domains), neighborhood of residence, as well as macroeconomic factors on under nutrition, obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes. |
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| Salim Rashid, Ph. D. (Yale University) |
| Visiting Professor (Economics) |
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