Biosensors & Bioelectronics

Soumya K Srivastava

Soumya K Srivastava
Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
Washington State University, USA

Biography

Soumya K. Srivastava joined as an Assistant Research Professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University in August 2010. She obtained her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University in August 2010, M.S from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago in 2005 and B.S from R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India in 2001. She worked as an intern at Bayer Biologicals and at American Air Liquide. Before joining her Ph.D. at Mississippi State University, she worked at Warren Analytical, Greeley, CO for 1.5 years. Dr. Srivastava’s research interest involves building lab-on-a-chip point-of-care microfluidic platform for medical diagnostic applications, bioseparations via dielectrophoresis, fabrication of microdevices and engineering education. Previously she has worked on recruitment and retention of engineering graduate student’s esp. women and challenges faced by international students in US schools. She is an active member of AIChE, AES, ASEE and Sigma-Xi and has published several articles in national / international journals and conferences.

Research Interest

Biological separations by dielectrophoresis microfluidic platform for medical diagnostics micro and nano fabrication recruitment and retention of women engineering students