New Delhi: Indian American professor Tejal Desai has been named as the next dean of the School of Engineering at Brown University, an Ivy League University, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Accomplished a biomedical engineer and academic leaders, DESAI will begin his term on 1 September 2022, succeeded Lawrence Larson, who has served as dean of the School of Brown’s prime since 2011.
As dean, Desai will lead the third oldest engineering programs in the United States and Ivy League’s oldest university.
“A professor and researcher who has led the academic program at the University of California, San Francisco, and Boston University among others, Desai will work to expand collaborative research and teaching techniques,” said the liberation of the School of Engineering Brown.
Currently attached to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), DESAI will join an elite group of American professors India in a leadership role in US universities and is one of the few women in top positions in the stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Program.
Himself an alumnus of Brown University, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering in 1994, Desai said: “Engineers Brown tend to be people with encouragement specifically to improve the world around them.
Students become brown because they want to have a positive impact on society and they see engineering as a solid way to do it.
“in a tweet he said:” excited to announce a new chapter! Very pleased to have the opportunity to lead the school of engineering at Brown! as a freshman at Brown more than 30 years ago, I do not never imagined that my career will come full circle.
“an expert in applying technology microscale and nanoscale to create new ways to deliver the drug to the sites targeted in the human body, Desai is also a former old chair the Department of Bioengineering and Physical Therapy at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and director perd ana UCSF medical innovation through initiatives Engineering (Hive).
He also has academic leadership positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Boston University and UCSF and has served in recent years as a member of the Advisory Board of Biomedical Engineering Brown.
H Brown University President Christina Paxson and Provost Richard M Locke announced the appointment DESAI in a letter to the Community School of Engineering on 12 January.
“In addition to violating his research, Professor Desai has become the leader that develops programs and supports.
The young researchers, foster cross-disciplinary approach to critical engineering challenges and support diversity, equity and inclusion in the field of engineering,” wrote Paxson and Locke.
“As a graduate of chocolate, he understands the character of an innovative and collaborative engineering at Brown, and we look forward to working with him in his new role as Dean.” After elevation to the school in 2010, engineering at Brown has experienced dramatic growth with the addition of new faculty, increasing research and development funding research and teaching facilities are sophisticated, 80,000 square foot, according to a press release.
Desai’s responsibilities will include growing the company’s research school with a focus on pressing community challenges, and deepen collaboration in research and teaching in the school and across the campus.
The main priority will continue to diversify the student body of the school at all levels as you recruit and retain more faculty from historically experienced group.
He was awarded a Ph.D.
Together with the University of California – San Francisco and University of California – Berkeley Bioengineering Department.
At UCSF, DESAI laboratory focuses on the field of biomedical micro and nanotechnology for delivery of therapeutic and research covering several disciplines, including materials engineering, cell biology, tissue engineering and pharmacological delivery systems to address the problem of disease and clinical translation.
He has published more than 220 articles were reviewed by a peer, holds many patents, and also the founder of five startups.
He was born in Huntington Beach, California, in 1972, to Indian parents and spent most of his early life in Santa Barbara.
DESAI married, has three children, and simultaneously have been volunteering his time to promote minority and female students in science.