Prof. Shashi Murthy joined the Northeastern faculty in August 2005 following postdoctoral training under the guidance of Profs. Mehmet Toner and Martin Yarmush on the microfluidic separation of lymphocyte subpopulations. His doctoral work at MIT on vapor-deposited insulating coatings for neuroprosthetic devices was carried out under the direction of Prof. Karen Gleason. Prof. Murthy is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award (2008) and the Søren Buus Award for Outstanding Research in Engineering at Northeastern University (2009). He was promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure in 2011. Prof. Murthy was appointed Associate Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department in August 2011 and Acting Chair in January 2012.
Prof. Murthy holds secondary appointments as Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and as Faculty Fellow in the Barnett Institute of Chemical & Biological Analysis at Northeastern University. In addition, Prof. Murthy is a Scientific Investigator at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston. |
