Bharath Babu Nunna joined Weber State University as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department in Fall 2021. Before joining Weber State University, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Division of Engineering in Medicine, at Harvard University. At Harvard, his research focused on a programmable microfluidic printhead for advanced additive manufacturing processes. He was responsible for the core technology development of fully automated in situ 3D bioprinting embedded with a multi-material printhead. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in May 2018 from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research studies primarily focus on microfluidic biosensing methodologies to detect targeted biomolecules. His expertise primarily include micro/nanofabrication, surface characterization, and the electrical characterization of biosensing applications. Also, he serves as a guest editor for the Micromachines and Bioengineering journals and as a reviewer for more than 30 international peer-reviewed journals (he has reviewed more than 260 manuscripts to date). Before joining the NJIT, ha had seven years of industrial
experience at Caterpillar Inc. He served as the principal engineer for Caterpillar (CAT) power modules and the Large Power Systems Division (LPSD) from 2008 to 2014.
Eon Soo Lee is an Associate Professor with Tenure in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and has been the Principal Investigator in the Advanced Energy Systems and Microdevices Laboratory at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) since 2013. He received his Ph.D. (2007) and MS (2004) from Stanford University, and his BS (1999) from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, all in Mechanical Engineering. He was elected Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in 2020 and was enlisted as a Vanguard Leader in Higher Education in New Jersey by NJBIZ in 2018. He has pioneered nitrogen-doped graphene-based electrochemical nanomaterials with metal organic frameworks (N-G/MOFs) through a new synthesis methodology called the nano-high-energy wet ball milling process for innovative electrochemical systems. He is also the founder of a biotech startup, Abonics Inc., used to develop nano-biochip sensors for multiplex disease detections and diagnoses from a single drop of biofluids. He has also served on the Editorial Board of the IEEE JTEHM journal. His research has
gained international recognition and has received many awards, including the New Jersey Health Foundation Innovation Award (2017), NIH and IEEE Best Design Award (2017), National Science Foundation Innovation-Corps Award (2018 and 2016), TechConnect National Innovation Award (2017), and Defence Innovation Award (2017), and has a cover page highlight in the International Journal
of Energy Research (2017).
