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{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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| office = Division Director of [[National Science Foundation]] EECS Program
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| office2 = Alcatel-Lucent Professor and Distinguished University Professor in the Florida International University
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| birth_place = India
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| alma_mater = {{ubl|[[IIT Madras]]|[[RMIT University]]|[[NIT Jaipur]]}}
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'''Shekhar Bhansali''' is the division director in Electrical, Communication and Cyber Systems (ECCS) at the [[National Science Foundation]]. He also serves as an Alcatel-Lucent Professor and [[Distinguished university professor|Distinguished University Professor]] in the [[Florida International University]] (FIU) [[FIU College of Engineering and Computing|Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Shekhar Bhansali {{!}} NSF - National Science Foundation|url=https://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=sbhansal&org=ECCS&from_org=ECCS|access-date=2020-12-10|website=www.nsf.gov}}</ref> Bhansali’s main research interests are in [[nanotechnology]], [[biosensor]]s, and [[microfluidics]]. He holds 40 patents,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Google Patents|url=https://patents.google.com/?inventor=shekhar+bhansali&oq=shekhar+bhansali|access-date=2020-12-10|website=patents.google.com}}</ref> has published over 300 publications, and has advised more than 40 Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows in research.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Curriculum Vitae of Shekhar Bhansali|url=https://case.fiu.edu/about/directory/people/_assets/cv/current_shekhar-bhansali-cv-aug-2016.pdf|access-date=|website=Florida International University}}</ref> He was elevated to a Fellow of the IEEE in 2023.

== Education ==
Bhansali received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in [[metallurgical engineering]] at [[Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur|Malaviya National Institute of Technology]], [[Jaipur]], [[Rajasthan]], [[India]].<ref name=":1" /> He then received his [[Master of Technology]] (M.Tech) from [[IIT Madras|Indian Institute of Technology Madras]] and Ph.D. in electrical engineering at [[RMIT University]] Australia.<ref name=":0" />

== Career ==
Shekhar Bhansali began his career in 1995 as a lecturer in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at RMIT University, [[Melbourne|Melbourne, Australia]]. He came to the United States in 1988 and joined CMSM, ECECS Department, [[University of Cincinnati]] as a research faculty.<ref name=":1" /> In 2000, he joined [[University of South Florida]] and led a number of inter-connected interdisciplinary graduate student research and training programs, including NSF-IGERT, NSF’s Bridge to the Doctorate and Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Fellowship Programs to increase diversity, retention and graduation rates.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Dr. Shekhar Bhansali|url=https://mems.fiu.edu/dr-bhansali/|access-date=2020-12-10|website=Bio-Mems & Microsystems|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Awards ==

* Top Scholar Award from FIU in 2014<ref name=":2" />
* William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award in 2011 and 2009<ref name=":2" />
* Mentor of the Year Award from [[Alfred P. Sloan Foundation]] in 2009<ref name=":2" />
* Outstanding Mentor Award from the [[McKnight Foundation]] in 2004<ref name=":2" />
* [[NSF Career Award]] in 2003<ref name=":2" />
* In 2018, Bhansali has named as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Inventors.
* Elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2023 "for contributions to portable real-time sensing devices for continuous monitoring".<ref>{{Cite web |title=2023 NEWLY ELEVATED FELLOWS |url=https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2023-newly-elevated-fellows.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130163052/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2023-newly-elevated-fellows.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 30, 2022 |website=IEEE.org}}</ref>

== Books ==

* ''Mems for Biomedical Applications''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Mems for Biomedical Applications - 1st Edition|url=https://www.elsevier.com/books/mems-for-biomedical-applications/bhansali/978-0-85709-129-1|access-date=2020-12-10|website=www.elsevier.com|date=18 July 2012 |isbn=978-0-85709-129-1 |last1=Bhansali |first1=Shekhar |last2=Vasudev |first2=Abhay |publisher=Elsevier Science }}</ref>
* ''Chemical Sensors 7 -and- MEMS/NEMS 7''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hesketh|first=Peter J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nS5lVoPCeCAC|title=Chemical Sensors 7 -and- MEMS/NEMS 7|date=2006|publisher=The Electrochemical Society|isbn=978-1-56677-510-6|language=en}}</ref>

== References ==

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== External links ==
* [https://mems.fiu.edu/dr-bhansali/programs/ Research Programs]
* [https://mems.fiu.edu/dr-bhansali/publications/ Journal Publications]
* [https://mems.fiu.edu/dr-bhansali/conference-papers/ Conference Publications]
* [https://patents.google.com/?inventor=shekhar+bhansali&oq=shekhar+bhansali Patents]
* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9UDF34gAAAAJ&hl=en Shekhar Bhansali Google Scholar]

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