City-lad based in Boston bags prestigious NSF Award
| Date :10-Jul-2020 |
Dr Suhrid Deshmukh
Staff Reporter ;
Dr Suhrid Deshmukh, a native of Nagpur based in Boston for last eight years, was recently awarded the prestigious ‘National Science Foundation Innovation-Corps (NSF I-Corps)’ award in recognition of his groundbreaking research. Along with his team, Dr Suhrid Deshmukh won the award for work on novel-algorithmic framework for ‘Stochastic Modelling, Design Simulation and Sensitivity Analysis’ of electronic devices (like printed circuit boards) extremely critical in energy efficiency and transportation industries. NSF’s rigorous merit review process is considered the gold standard world over for evaluating research proposals in a competitive environment.
Dr Suhrid Deshmukh hopes to use the NSF award to implement his research algorithms for PCB design, which he and his team believe, will have wide-ranging impact in multitude of fields undergoing technological revolution. He claims that his team’s research will provide key breakthroughs in transportation and energy domains such as efficient navigation of autonomous vehicles in uncertain environments and robust fault detection in heating, ventilation and air conditioning energy systems in buildings. Dr Deshmukh left Nagpur at a young age of 18 years to begin his research journey in the USA. He has an excellent track record throughout his academic career there.
He gained expertise in advanced statistical methods applied to the fields of transportation and energy systems during his graduate studies (PhD and Master’s) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published his research in several high impact journals and presented his work in national and International conferences. Presently, Dr Suhrid Deshmukh is working at Staples Inc headquarters where his transportation optimisation algorithms are proving useful during COVID-19 pandemic in aiding the frontline workers. His algorithms enable cost-efficient delivery of essential products -- personal protective equipment, masks, gloves and sanitisers to healthcare sector and frontline workers.
“It has been a great privilege to contribute my training in data science methods in energy and transportation systems towards a cause that is helping the essential businesses during the current pandemic,” Dr Deshmukh was quoted as saying in a press release. Apart from NSF award, his team is also working on using the research for better design of microfluidic medical devices, which will be directly relevant to developing robust point-of-care devices faster, which is of significant importance during the current pandemic.