Python, Communication, Team Work, Analysis, Chemical Engineering

Pooja Hariharan Last Updated on *th June ****

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EDUCATION

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY TIRUCHIRAPALLI

BTECH(HONS.) IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

MINOR IN ENERGY ENGINEERING

Expected May 2020 Cum. GPA:9.01

Class Rank: 5/60

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

•Transport Phenomena•Reaction Engineering•

Biochemical Energy Conversion •Thermodynamics

ONLINE COURSEWORK

Manufacturing of Composites (MOOC, top 2%)

Medical Biomaterials (MOOC, top 5%)

Data Communication and Visualization using Tableau Python Fundamentals (94%)

SKILLS

PROGRAMMING/SOFTWARE

Proficient:

C • C++ • MS Office

Familiar:

Python• Tableau

MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION:

Microscope Analysis •Contact angle measurement

• Zeta Analysis • Size Analysis • UV-vis Spectroscopy

•FTIR Spectroscopy• XRD• Dektak Profilometer

• Cleanroom wafer fabrication

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

•Best Poster Award in GHCI’19 (Accepted)

•MITACS Globalink Scholarship (Accepted)

•ThinkSwiss Scholarship’19 to pursue an Internship at ETH Zurich

•NTU-India Connect Scholarship ’19 to pursue an

Internship at NTU Singapore

• Avery Dennison InvEnt Scholarship (Accepted)

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

•Head, Social Responsibility Team, Pragyan’20, The International Techno-Management Festival of

NIT-Trichy.

•Head,Events team of Alchemy’19, Technical symposium of NITT

•Volunteer at Illuminate an NGO aimed at teaching

children of marginalized communities.

NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS

•All India Rank 28, KVS Junior Math Olympiad 2015

•School Topper in Chemistry and overall second in

school in AISSCE 2016.

INTERNSHIPS & TRAINING

MITACS GLOBALINK SUMMER RESEARCH INTERN,

UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA,CANADA,2019

Non-evaporating Droplets on Clearflex based microfluidic chip (May-August)

•Developed standard operating procedure for making Clearflex based micro- fluidic devices.

•Developed non-evaporating droplets and droplet interface bilayers using the device.

•Performed characterization and achieved 40% increase in success rate of the Clearflex chips View Certificates

SUMMER RESEARCH INTERN, IISC BANGALORE,2018

Formulation and characterization of nano drug carriers for cancer therapy (May

- July)

•Development, characterization and study of stabilization parameters of colloidal nanocarriers used for drug delivery applications.

•View Internship Presentation

RESEARCH PROJECTS

CONTINUOUS PHARMACEUTICALMANUFACTURING

LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS OF IBUPROFEN (SEPTEMBER

2019 - PRESENT)

Plant wide design, economic and environmental evaluation of production of ibuprofen using continuous processing. Supervisor: Dr. A. Arunagiri CEREBRO (AUGUST 2018 - PRESENT)

Motor Imagery based Prosthetic arm control with haptic feedback to assist the upper extremity impaired

•Spearheading development of PDMS based balloon actuator array for haptic feedback.

•Ongoing work on reduction of cost of these platforms by 60% SMART ELECTRONIC PILL (MARCH 2018 - PRESENT)

•Overall head and team lead for the fabrication of capsule and coating.

•Building proof of concept prototype of electronic and chemical sensors based drug carriers.

•Semi-finalists of TIIDC (Among top 50 out of 10000 teams). NOVEL PAINT USING LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS

(AUGUST 2016 - JANUARY 2019)

•Self undertaken project on development of eco-friendly paint from biomass as replacement to the traditional petroleum based binders.

•Reduced cost of paint by 30%

•Filed for patent through NIT Trichy (In progress)

•Received Avery Dennsison InvEnt Scholarship for the same PUBLICATIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

•Hariharan, P. (2019). Extraction of amino acids from natural sources (ongo- ing paper- in collaboration with Prof. Amira Abderasoul, University of Saskat- chewan).

•Hariharan, P. and Seshan, S. (2019). Surface modification techniques used in membranes for biomedical applications.(In Preparation)

•Presented a talk in Frontiers of Biophysics conference 2019 at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.

•Selected for poster presentation of the project SMART PILL at GHCI(Grace Hoppers Celebration India) conference 2019 at Bangalore, India.

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