Event
Special Seminar: Shubhra Gangopadhyay, "Achieving Success with NSF Proposals"
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
1:00 p.m.
1146 AV Williams Building
Ian White
ianwhite@umd.edu
This event is for faculty only.
Guidance to Achieving Success with NSF Proposals:
A Program Director’s View
Shubhra Gangopadhyay
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Missouri
and
Program Director
Communications, Circuits, and Sensing Systems(CCSS)
National Science Foundation
Please join Dr. Shubhra Gangopadhyay for a discussion of NSF Engineering Core programs, new initiatives, and future ideas. In addition, Dr. Gangopadhyay will present a summary of her discussions with the program directors from different NSF divisions (including CBET and CMMI) on how to increase success rates.
Biography
Dr. Shubhra Gangopadhyay is the LaPierre Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri. She is the Director of Center of Nanotechnology and Nano/Micro-devices at the College of Engineering. Currently, she is serving as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation. Her areas of expertise include plasmonics for super-resolution imaging of nanostructures and sensing, metal nanoparticle-based memory devices, nanostructured dielectric films for micro/nanoelectronics and sensor applications, chemical and biological sensors using nanotechnology platforms, and nano-energetics for defense and biological applications. She has published over 160 journal papers and graduated 25 Ph.D. and 22 MS students and supervised 31 post-doctoral research associates. She is the Fellow of American Physical Society and the Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. She co-founded three companies and collaborates with many industries and has been very successful in the development and commercialization of technology.
