Dr. Sri Ramulu Torati is a researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Old Dominion University. He received his Master’s Degree in Organic Chemistry from Sambalpur University in 2005 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Nanotechnology and biosensors from Chungnam National University in 2009. His research interests mainly include designing and developing Diagnostic devices, Lab On Chip devices, Electrochemical biosensors, Nanomaterials based on high-resolution sensors, electrochemical synthesis of nanomaterials, Nanomaterials for biomedical applications, Bioassays, Surface conjugations of cells, particles, nanomaterials, and thin films.
Dr. Gymama Slaughter is the Executive Director of the Old Dominion University Research Center for Bioelectronics. She received her B.S. in Chemistry in 2001, M.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005. Her research interests include biosensors, nanosensors, microfabrication technology, and BioMEMS. Her honors and awards include the NSF’s prestigious CAREER AWARD, NIH G-RISE Award, Up and Coming UMBC Inventor Award, Greater Richmond Technology Council RichTech Educator Award, and the Richmond Joint Engineers Consortium Community Service Award. She is the associate editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal and the Nature Scientific Reports Journal.