SPIE Student Chapter Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Department
University of South Florida _____________________________________________________________
Student Chapter Annual Report 2015 1. Chapter Officers:
Chapter Advisor: Anna Pyayt [email protected] President: Arseny Zhdanov [email protected] Vice President: Surya Sehkar Cheemalapati [email protected] Secretary: Hao Wang [email protected] Treasurer: Karthik Raj Konnaiyan [email protected] 2. Current Student Chapter Members: Surya Cheemalapati Radwan Elzein
Ahmad Khayat Jafari Karthik Raj Konnaiyan
Arianna Lewis Shyam Perumal
Fatemeh Rahimi Hao Wang
John Winskas Arseny Zhdanov
3. Chapter Activities:
Conferences:
Surface Forces Apparatus Cancun, Mexico Aug 24-29, 2014 SPIE Photonics West San Francisco, California Feb 7-12, 2015 Wave Electronics and its Applications
St Petersburg, Russia Jun 1-5, 2015
SPIE Optics and Photonics San Diego, California Aug 18-22, 2015 BMES Annual Meeting Tampa, Florida Oct 7-10, 2015
SPIE Student Chapter Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Department
University of South Florida _____________________________________________________________
Achievements: Chapter was established in 2014, we were are able to introduce students of
several departments to it by giving a number of presentations Chapter advisor and her team got to semi-finals of 2015 SPIE Startup
challenge Hao Wang attended SPIE Photonics West and presented his research Chapter officers attended SPIE Optics and Photonics Arseny Zhdanov gave a talk in Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI)
on 3D printer usage in research. Work of our lab was featured in SPIE Celebrating Light book
Grants and Awards: Alumni Travel Grant; Karthik Raj Konnaiyan; 2014
College of Engineering Travel Grant; Karthik Raj Konnaiyan; 2014
College of Engineering Travel Grant; Surya Cheemalapati; 2014
USF Student Government Travel Grant; Shyam Perumal; 2014
SPIE Officer Travel Grant; Hao Wang; 2015
College of Engineering Travel Grant; Hao Wang; 2015
Signature Research Fellowship; Surya Cheemalapati; 2015
USF Presidential Fellowship; Arseny Zhdanov ; 2014
SPIE Student Chapter Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Department
University of South Florida _____________________________________________________________
Publications, presentations and talks:
Surya Cheemalapati, "Design of On-Chip Blood Coagulation Sensor" at SFA, Cancun
Hao Wang, "Photothermal Therapeutic Agent: Magnetically Controllable Optical Microheaters" at SPIE Photonics West
Karthik Raj Konnaiyan "Lensless Diffraction Imaging of Bacteria" at SFA, Cancun
Surya Cheemalapati, “Nano-endoscope for Local Light Delivery and Collection from a Single Cell" at BMES
Shyam Perumal, "3D printed glass for correction of eye defects" at BMES
Arseny Zhdanov, “SEM imaging of biological samples” at WECONF, St Petersburg
Arseny Zhdanov, “3D printer use in research” at MOSI, Tampa
Cheemalapati, S., Ladanov, M., Winskas, J., & Pyayt, A. (2014). Optimization of dry etching parameters for fabrication of polysilicon waveguides with smooth sidewall using a capacitively coupled plasma reactor. Applied optics, 53(25), 5745-5749.
Mandek B Richardson, Surya V. Cheemalapati , Richard Everly , Subramanian K.R.S Sankaranarayanan , Anna Pyayt , Venkat Bhethanabotla. “Design and fabrication of a SAW device with Ta filled microcavities inserted into its delay path for improved power transfer”. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 33, 021801 (2015).
4. Financial Information: 2014 Activity grant +500 2015 Activity grant +500 Printing posters -100 Supporting funding for SPIE Optics and Photonics travel -100 Pizza and snacks for meetings -75 Attending a joint conference with Saint-Petersburg State Univ. of Aerospace Instrumentation Chapter
-125
Attending Photonics West -100 Total balance 500
SPIE Student Chapter Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Department
University of South Florida _____________________________________________________________ 5. Photo Gallery:
Surya Cheemalapati at SFA, Cancun, Mexico
Karthik Raj Konnaiyan at SFA, Cancun, Mexico
SPIE Student Chapter Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Department
University of South Florida _____________________________________________________________
Photo of Chapter Advisors, Chapter Officers and members
Work of our lab was featured in SPIE Celebrating Light book
SPIE Student Chapter Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Department
University of South Florida _____________________________________________________________
Surya Cheemalapati at BMES, Tampa, US
SPIE Student Chapter Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Department
University of South Florida _____________________________________________________________
Hao Wang at SPIE Optics and Photonics, San Diego
Arseny Zhdanov giving a talk in Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) on 3D printer application in research.