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Gracias Lab, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore - 21218, MD, USA, +1 4437876568 [email protected]; [email protected] ARIJIT GHOSH CURRENT POSITION Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (since October 2015), working on Biomedical microtools for surgical and drug delivery applications. (Advisors: Prof. David H. Gracias and Dr. Florin M. Selaru ) I am involved in engineering and developing novel microrobotic platforms for biopsy and drug delivery applications in the GI tract of large animals. WORK EXPERIENCE Research Associate at the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (August 2014 – September 2015), worked on the Measurement of mechanical properties of complex fluids with magnetic nanopropellers. EDUCATION PhD; Department of Electrical Communication Engineering; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore CGPA: 6.3/ 8 August 2009 - July 2014 Dissertation title: Dynamics, Fluctuations and Rheological Applications of Magnetic Nanopropellers [Advisor: Dr. Ambarish Ghosh ] Bachelor of Engineering; Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering; Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur. Marks: 77.9% July 2005 - June 2009 Project: Fabrication and Testing of a Micro Strip Directional Coupler. WBHSE (XII); Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics. Marks: 91.3% April 2005 WBSE (X); Science & Humanities, Marks: 94.5% March 2003 AWARDS AND HONORS Outstanding Researcher Award; Annual Symposium 2014; Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Research Scholarship for Graduate Studies (2009 - 2014);

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Gracias Lab, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore - 21218, MD, USA,

+1 4437876568 [email protected]; [email protected]

ARIJIT GHOSH

CURRENT POSITION

Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (since October 2015), working on Biomedical microtools for surgical and drug delivery applications. (Advisors: Prof. David H. Gracias and Dr. Florin M. Selaru)

• I am involved in engineering and developing novel microrobotic platforms for biopsy and drug delivery applications in the GI tract of large animals.

WORK EXPERIENCE Research Associate at the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (August 2014 – September 2015), worked on the Measurement of mechanical properties of complex fluids with magnetic nanopropellers.

EDUCATION

PhD; Department of Electrical Communication Engineering; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore CGPA: 6.3/ 8 August 2009 - July 2014

Dissertation title: Dynamics, Fluctuations and Rheological Applications of Magnetic Nanopropellers [Advisor: Dr. Ambarish Ghosh]

Bachelor of Engineering; Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering; Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur.

Marks: 77.9% July 2005 - June 2009 Project: Fabrication and Testing of a Micro Strip Directional Coupler.

WBHSE (XII); Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics. Marks: 91.3% April 2005

WBSE (X); Science & Humanities, Marks: 94.5% March 2003

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Outstanding Researcher Award; Annual Symposium 2014; Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

• Research Scholarship for Graduate Studies (2009 - 2014);

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Ministry of Human Resources and Development; Government of India.

• Merit Scholarship for Engineering (2007 - 2009); Global Alumni Association; Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur.

• Top 0.5% in state level Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE), 2005 to qualify for engineering studies.

• Ranked 19th in the state of West Bengal; 10th standard board examination (2005).

KEY SKILLS • Micro and Nanofabrication techniques like Glancing Angle Deposition, Electron

beam evaporation, Thermal evaporation, Electron beam and

Photolithography, Electroplating, Plasma etcher, Langmuir Blodgett

deposition.

• Microfabrication with polymers.

• Magnetic manipulation at micro/nano scale.

• Experiments with soft matter systems in microfluidic environments.

• Modeling of fluidic systems.

• Optical Microscopy (Bright Field & Fluorescence).

• Familiarity with Optical Tweezers.

• Familiarity with Spectrophotometry.

• Basic Instrumentation.

• Nano characterization techniques like Scanning Electron Microscopy and

Surface Profilometry.

PROGRAMMING SKILLS

Proficient in MATLAB, LABVIEW and C.

PATENT “A Method and a System for Rheological Measurements” by Arijit Ghosh, Pranay Mandal and Ambarish Ghosh; Indian Patent: 715/CHE/2015.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

“Helical nanomachines for fast mechanical mapping of heterogeneous environments” by Arijit Ghosh and Ambarish Ghosh; arXiv:1608.02253, 2016.

"Velocity fluctuations in Helical Propulsion: How small can a Propeller be" by Arijit Ghosh, Debadrita Paria, Govindan Rangarajan and Ambarish Ghosh; Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2014, 5 (1), 62 - 68.

"Wafer scale fabrication of porous three-dimensional plasmonic metamaterials for the visible region: chiral and beyond" by Haobijam Johnson Singh, Greshma Nair, Arijit Ghosh and Ambarish Ghosh; Nanoscale, 2013, 5 (16), 7224 - 7228.

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"Analytical Theory and Stability Analysis of an elongated Nanoscale object under External torque" by Arijit Ghosh, Pranay Mandal, Suman Karmakar and Ambarish Ghosh; Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, 2013, 15, 10817.

"Study of the formation of Nano networks in colloidal particles" by Pooyath Lekshmy Venugopalan, Gaurav Gupta, Arijit Ghosh, Haobijam Johnson Singh, Greshma Nair and Ambarish Ghosh; International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials, 2013, 62, 499 - 501.

"Dynamical Configurations and Bistability of Helical Nanostructures under External torque" by Arijit Ghosh, Debadrita Paria, Haobijam Johnson Singh, Pooyath Lekshmy Venugopalan and Ambarish Ghosh; Physical Review E, 2012, 86, 031401.

COFERENCES AND SEMINARS

“Self Gripping Patches for Drug Delivery” by Arijit Ghosh, Parth Patel, Anjishnu Sarkar, Florin M. Selaru and David H. Gracias; poster presentation in nanoDDS16; Baltimore, USA; September 2016.

“Magnetic Nanopropellers: A New Tool for Microrheology” by Arijit Ghosh and Ambarish Ghosh; poster presentation in New Colloids Discussion Meeting; Bangalore, India; July 2015.

“Understanding Non- Gaussian Velocity Fluctuations in Helical Nanopropellers” by Arijit Ghosh and Ambarish Ghosh; 2nd IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE); Bangalore, India; December 2014.

One of the 14 participants in the Academia Industry Training (AIT) workshop organized by Swissnex India and the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems; Bangalore, India; November, 2014.

“Dynamics and Rheological Applications of Chiral Nanostructures” by Arijit Ghosh and Ambarish Ghosh; Oral presentation in APS March Meeting; Denver, USA; March 2014.

"Nano-scale patterning of GaN LED structures using Langmuir-Blodgett assisted self-assembly process " by Gaurav Gupta, Alexander Usikov, Ramandeep Kaur, Gurram Narayana Rao, Deepak Loomba, Haobijam Johnson Singh, Arijit Ghosh and Ambarish Ghosh; International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors; Sapporo, Japan; October 2012.

REFERENCES Dr. David H. Gracias (Research Advisor)

Professor,

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,

Johns Hopkins University,

Baltimore, MD 21218.

[email protected]

Dr. Florin M. Selaru (Research Advisor), Dr. Ambarish Ghosh (PhD Research Advisor),

Associate Professor, Associate Professor,

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Department of Medicine, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering,

John Hopkins University, Indian Institute of Science,

Baltimore, MD 21287. Bangalore 560012

[email protected] [email protected]