Pranav Sundaram

M.S. Student
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Email: ps886 (at) cornell.edu

Biography

Pranav began his graduate studies at Cornell University in Fall 2016 and  joined the Micro/Nanofluidics Laboratory in September 2016. He graduated from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli in May 2016 with B.Tech in Chemical Engineering. He is a MITACS Globalink Research Intern and during his undergraduate summer internship in Mcmaster University, Canada, he worked on a number of projects in microfluidics including Uniform flow distribution analysis in Microfluidic Bioreactors, Vacuum Induced Cellular Concentration Analysis Using Fluorescent Microscopy,  and Chemotaxis of C-elegans.

Current Projects

Pranav is interested in Point of Care Diagnostics using microfluidics and Lab on a Chip technology. He is currently developing a point of care device to facilitate widespread, cross-species monitoring of Lyme disease in an inexpensive format.

Education

B.Tech, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Chemical Engineering, 2016.