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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Siranush Babakhanova <siranush@mit.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Xapiens] "Fusing Nanoelectronics, Physics, and Biology" _>_Hiring_<_ 3pm this Sunday (10/28), 4-163<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">3pm this Sunday (10/28), 4-163</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#3D85C6">Speaker:</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> <b><a href="https://deblina-sarkar.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Deblina Sarkar</a>, Postdoctoral Associate at <a href="https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/nano-cybernetic-biotrek/overview/">Nano-Cybernetic
Biotrek</a> Media Lab <span style="color:lime">(<--- Hiring - Apply)</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#3D85C6">Topics discussed:</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> <b>Fusing Nanoelectronics, Physics, and Biology</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#3D85C6">Speaker Bio: </span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZLKFDWtNX8">Watch his TED talk for a preview </a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Deblina Sarkar will start as an Assistant Professor at MIT in 2019. She is currently an MIT Translational Fellow and NIH K99 postdoctoral fellow. Her work has led to more than 40 publications till date (citations: 2546, h-index: 21, i-10
index: 27 according to Google Scholar), which have appeared in the popular press worldwide<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Her Ph.D. dissertation was honored as one of the top 3 dissertations throughout USA and Canada in the field of Mathematics, Physical sciences and all departments of Engineering by the Council of Graduate Schools in the period 2014-2016.
She was UCSB’s nominee for this nationwide contest, after winning the Lancaster Award for the best Ph.D. dissertation at UCSB in 2016. She is the recipient of numerous other awards and recognitions, including the U.S. Presidential Fellowship (2008), Outstanding
Doctoral Candidate Fellowship (2008), one of three researchers worldwide to win the prestigious IEEE EDS PhD Fellowship Award (2011), a “Bright Mind” invited speaker at the KAUST-NSF conference (2015), Falling Walls Lab Young Innovator’s Award at San Diego
(2015), “Materials Research Society’s Graduate Student Award” (2015), named a “Rising Star” in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2015), invited speaker at TEDx (2016), MIT Translational Fellowship (2017) and Technology Review’s one of the Top 10
Innovators Under 35 from India (2018). She has also received the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/f0NBUfRDD9DXtPdu2">RSVP if you are coming, please.</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Speaker suggestions for our kick-off event in the Spring are being accepted. Please, reply to this email.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">See you on Sunday!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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