Dr. Aishwaryadev Banerjee

Aishwaryadev Banerjee was born in Kolkata, India, in 1988. He received his Bachelor’s degree from West Bengal University of Technology in 2011, India and his MS and PhD degree from the University of Utah, USA in 2019. His graduate work dealt with nano-scale engineering and advanced bio-sensing technologies. He has co-authored multiple technical articles and is a co-inventor of two provisional patents dealing with microfluidic actuators and low-power sensors. He has won multiple “best-paper” awards in international conferences and is a regular contributor to the research community by participating in the peer-reviewed journal publication process. He was part of the group which has recently created the world’s first “smart eye-glasses” and this work was featured in multiple press articles. He is also part of a group which has developed a new bio-sensing mechanism which can be potentially used for smart, portable and low-power bio-hazard detection. He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher and his active areas of research include adaptive optics, energy harvesting, ultra-low powered nano-sensors for detection of plant hormones, and neural-probe arrays. Under the supervision of Dr. Carlos H. Mastrangelo, he is heading a team of graduate students which is building the world’s first smart contact lens system with integrated adaptive optical elements. In addition to this, Aishwaryadev is an avid reader of literature and has keen interest in penning down short stories and essays. Having played the piano for a couple of years, he is equally interested in music as well as film-making. He currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah and can be contacted at aishwaryadev.banerjee@utah.edu .