Sanghamitra Mandal
Contact information:
Bell Engineering Center, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
Room no.: 3140
Email Id.: sm009@uark.edu
Phone no.: +1 479 595 1787
EDUCATION
• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Expected: May 2018)
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.
• M.Sc. Semiconductor Photonics and Engineering (Jan 2013)
University of Sheffield, England, United Kingdom.
• B.Tech. Electrical and Electronics Engineering (May 2011)
Uttar Pradesh Technical University, India.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Research projects: Fabrication, characterization and testing of electrochemical sensors based on hydrothermal synthesis of zinc oxide nanorods, wet etching of silicon nanowires, and concept of gold nanoelectrodes. Design and instrumentation of an optical sensor for glucose detection using Arduino Uno microcontroller, photo-transistor, high-power light emitting diodes, and operational amplifiers.
Recent publication:
1. Mandal, Sanghamitra, et al. “Sensitivity enhancement in an in-vitro glucose sensor using gold nanoelectrode ensembles.” Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics (2016): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-016-6207-5
2. Marie, Mohammed, Sanghamitra Mandal, and Omar Manasreh. “An electrochemical glucose sensor based on zinc oxide nanorods.” Sensors 15.8 (2015): 18714-18723 https://doi.org/10.3390/s150818714
3. Mandal, Sanghamitra, Mohammed Marie, and Omar Manasreh. “Fabrication of nanoelectrode ensembles using silicon nanowires in an electrochemical glucose sensor.” SENSORS, 2016 IEEE. IEEE, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2016.7808447
4. Mandal, Sanghamitra, Mohammed Marie, and Omar Manasreh. “Fabrication of an Electrochemical Sensor for Glucose Detection using ZnO Nanorods.” MRS Advances 1.13 (2016): 861-867 https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2016.149
5. Marie, Mohammed, Sanghamitra Mandal, and Omar Manasreh. “An enzymatic glucose detection sensor using ZnO nanostructure.” MRS Advances 1.13 (2016): 847-853 https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2016.100
Poster Presentation:
(1) 2015 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Glucose Detection Based on Amperometric Response of Electrochemical Sensor Using Hydrothermal Sol-Gel Synthesized ZnO Nanorods.
(2) 2016 IEEE Sensors, Fabrication of nanoelectrode Ensembles Using Silicon Nanowires in an Electrochemical Glucose Sensor
(3) Study of the efficiency droop phenomenon in InGaN based blue light emitting diodes using the ABC model, University of Sheffield, England, UK, 2012 May.
MSc Dissertation Title: Characteristic study of III-Nitride based ultra-energy efficient emitters for solid state lighting. (Study of ABC + f(n) model for efficiency droop in blue InGaN LEDs)
MSc Mini Project: GaAs/AlGaAs LASER fabrication and characterization; and study on GaN growth technique-MOCVD
B.Tech Final Year Project: Non-conventional energy generation from busy road using a DC dynamo and Energy conservation in for street lighting using light- dependent resistors (LDRs)
Senior Design Project: Designed an autonomous robot for the National Robotics Contest 2010, Pune, India
International meeting: Visited Geneva’s European Centre for Nuclear Research CERN to see the Large Hadron Collider in April 2012
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Research Assistant Aug 2013 – Present
Optoelectronics Research Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas
• Graduate Teaching Assistant Jan 2014 – Present
(1) Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas
Courses taught: Energy systems laboratory (spring’14), Digital design laboratory (fall’14), Circuits II TA (spring’15), Differential Equations TA (spring’15)
(2) College of Engineering, Freshman Engineering Program
Courses taught: Fundamentals of Success in engineering study (fall’15), Electronics (spring’16, spring’17), Robotics (spring’16, fall’16), Structures (fall’16), and Bio-systems (spring’17)
SKILLS
• R programming
• JMP
• C programming
• FPGA programming (VHDL)
• Microsoft office
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Comsol Multiphysics
• OrCAD PCB designing
• AutoCAD
• Arduino Uno
• LEGO Mindstorms EV3
• Raman Spectroscopy
• Photolithography
• Solar cell fabrication
SCHOLARSHIPS
1. WR Bill Thomas Doctoral Scholarship $2000 (2016-17)
2. Earl H. Beling Doctoral Fund $1000 (2015-16)