Biography
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Professor Kumta obtained his Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India in 1984. He then obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1990 and was promoted to Full Professor with tenure in 1998. He recently joined the University of Pittsburgh after serving on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University for 17 years, and is currently the Edward R. Weidlein Chair Professor in the Swanson School of Engineering and the School of Dental Medicine. His main research interests are in the synthesis, structure and properties of nanostructured materials for electrochemical electronic, bone tissue engineering, biomineralization, bio-sensing, and non-viral gene delivery applications. Professor Kumta is the recipient of the NSF Research Initiation Award (RIA), Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE). He has edited/co-edited 9 books, given more than 130 invited and 446 oral presentations, and is the author and co-author of more than 270 refereed publications. He is currently the Editor in Chief of Materials Science and Engineering, B, Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials, an International Journal by Elsevier.
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