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Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
208 North Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801

 

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Phone: 217-333-3097
Fax: 217-244-6375
email: mntl@illinois.edu

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Rohit Bhargava

Rohit Bhargava

Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
3112 Micro and Nanotechnology Lab
208 N. Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 265-6596
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Building Faculty
4265 Beckman Institute, MC-251
405 N. Mathews
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 265-6596
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Ph.D. (Macromolecular Science and Engineering), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 2000.

Research Interests:
  • Chemical Imaging
  • Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
  • Cancer pathology
  • Polymer dynamics
  • Biomedical image processing
Undergraduate Research Opportunities:
Undergraduate researchers in Prof. Bhargava's group help develop methods for diagnosing and grading cancer, in developing nanoparticle probes for optical imaging, in tissue engineering and in developing new computer software.
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Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Teaching:

  • Incomplete Lists of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, 2006, 2007, 2008
  • Accenture Outstanding Faculty Award for Undergraduate Advising, 2007, 2009
  • Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence

Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Research:

  • DoD Young Investigator, Prostate Cancer Research program, 2007
  • Faculty Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 2006
  • Best Manuscript, Prominent Young Vibrational Spectroscopists Special Issue of Vibrational Spectroscopy, 2004.
  • William F. Meggers Award, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, 2002.
  • William F. Kirkbright Bursary Award, Association of British Spectroscopists, 2001.
  • Sigma Pi Epsilon Honor Society, Society of Plastic Engineers, 2000.
  • Case Alumni Award for Best Graduate Spectroscopist, 2000.
  • William F. Meggers Award, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, 1999.
  • Samuel H. Maron Award, Case Western Reserve University, 1998.
  • Full Graduate Assistantship, Case Western Reserve University, 1996-2000.
  • The Roll of Honour for Outstanding Cumulative Contribution as an Undergraduate, 1996.
  • The Undergraduate Research Award, IIT-D, 1994.
  • National Science Talent Search Scholar, NCERT, India, 1989-1996.

Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Public Service:

  • Ramachandra Rao Dasari Lecture, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2008
  • Lectureships: Society for Applied Spectroscopy National Tour Speaker, 2008