Welcome, Ajeet Kaushik!

Dr. AJEET KUMAR KAUSHIK

APT 101

14308 Wedgewood Court,

Tampa, Florida-33613, USA

E-mail- ajeet.npl@gmail.com  

Phone: +1-813-455-5698

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Summary

I working as Post Doctoral Researcher in project entitled “Development of Cortisol Biosensor” at Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA since Sep. 12, 2011 to till date under the supervision of Prof. Shekhar Bhansali. Herein, I am involved in the fabrication of nanostructured electro-catalytic platform to develop immunesensors to detect cortisol and its commercial porspects. I have a strong desire to pursue my career in Academics, Research & Development of bio-nanotechnology devices.

Education:                                                        

Ph. D. 

v  Supervisors: Prof. Sharif Ahmad (Department of Chemistry, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi).

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Co-supervisor: Dr. B. D. Malhotra (Biomedical Instrumentation Section , National Physical Laboratory)

v  Field- Biosensors

v  Topic-Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nanocomposite for Sensing Applications

v  Work Place- Biomolecular Electronics & Conducting Polymer Research Group (now Department of Science and Technology Centre on Biomolecular Electronics), National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India.

Academic Qualification:

Award and Achievement: 

v  Review paper entitled “Recent Advances in Nanostructured Metal Oxides Based Biosensors, by P.R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, V.Varun & B.D. Malhotra, accepted for publication in Nature Asia Materials, 3, 2011, 17.

v  Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for the proposal entitled “Organic- Inorganic Hybrid Nanocomposites for Sensing Applications”.

v  Worked as Foreign Researcher at Centre for the Nanobioengineering and Spintronics (nBEST), Chungnam National University, Daejeon-305-764 Korea on “The Development of Magnetic Beads Based Biosensor for Cancer Detection” during Oct. 3, to Dec. 1, 2009.

v  Presented  a poster entitled “Nanostructured Fe₃O₄ Film based Impedimetric Cholesterol Biosensor” at Fifth International Conference on Molecular Electronics & Bioelectronics (M&BE5 http://www.mbe5.org/), held during 15-18 March 2009 at Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan.

v  Best poster presentation award on Science Day at National Physical Laboratory, Feb, 27, 2009.

v  Research paper entitled "Zinc oxide-chitosan nanobiocomposite for urea sensor”, Applied Physics Letters 93, 163903 (2008), by  Pratima R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, Anees A. Ansari, G. Sumana, B. D. Malhotra, has been selected for the issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (Volume 18, Issue 19,/ SUPRAMOLECULAR & BIOCHEMICAL ASSEMBLY), Vir. J. Bio. Phys. Res.  (Volume 16 / Issue 9 / INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT).

v  Research paper entitled “Cerium oxide-chitosan based nanobiocomposite for food borne mycotoxin detection” Applied Physics Letters, 95,173703  (2009) by Ajeet kaushik et al., have been cited in Vir. J. Bio. Phys. Res. /Volume 18 /Issue 9 /INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT

v  Research paper entitled “Nanostructured Cerium Oxide Film Based Immunosensor for Mycotoxin Detection” in Nanotechnology, 20 (2009) 055105 by Ajeet Kaushik et.al, have been selected as research news entitled “Low-cost nano-film reveals food toxins” on Nanotechweb (http://nanotechweb.org).

v  Nanostructured zinc oxide platform for cholesterol sensor," Applied Physics Letters 94, 143901 (2009), Pratima R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, Anees A. Ansari, G. Sumana, B. D. Malhotra, has been selected for the April 20, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (http://www.vjnano.org) and April 15, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research (http://www.vjbio.org).

v  Delivered a talk on Nanotubes-Chitosan Based Nanocomposites for Immunosensor Application” at India-Japan Workshop on Biomolecular Electronics & Organic Nanotechnology for Environment Preservation (IJWBME 2009), New Delhi, Dec. 17-20, 2009.

Research cum Industrial Experience

Work as Project Assistant (II) in a project entitled “NIR Spectroscopic Studies of Cellulosic Materials” with supervision of Dr. Ranjana Mehrotra, Scientist-F (Optical Radiation Standards) at National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, since June 28, 2004 to August 2006. The project was been sponsored by Aditya Birla Management Corporation Ltd. (ABMCL), Grasim – Nagda.

At National Physical Laboratory along with the above project work, we also worked on the application of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy in the characterization of malignant tissue correspond to the normal tissue of cancer during the growth of cancer tumor. 

I work as Senior Research Fellow (April 2007 to march 2010) under the supervision of
Dr. B. D. Malhotra, National Physical Laboratory, India in the area of Organic-Inorganic Nanobiocomposites for Biosensor Application particularly relating in clinical and non-clinical research such as cholesterol, glucose, urea, food borne mycotoxins, pyrethroinds and pathogens. I have also synthesized nanostructured conducting polymers, metal oxides and their hybrid nanocomposites for immunosensor applications.    

I worked as project assistant (III, June, 2010 to Dec. 2010) in a project entitled “Department of Science Technology Centre of Biomolecular Electronics” at National Physical Laboratory, India with the supervision of Dr. B. D. Malhotra. Herein, I was involved in the development of optical and electrical cholesterol biosensor.

Recently, I also worked as Research Assistant in project entitled “Smart Integrated Miniaturized Sensors (SIMS) System at Biomedical Diagnostic Institute, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, since Dec. 2010 to July 2011 with the supervision of Prof. Tony Killard. Wherein, I am involved in the fabrication of silver based nanostructured surface using screen printed electrodes and modified using inkjet printing for cholesterol biosensor development. Efforts were being made to improve the sensing parameters via tuning the optical and electrical properties of electro-catalytic nanostructured surface layer using nanoparticles and formulation of new ink composition

Well versed in handling the following sophisticated Instruments

v  Langmuir-Blodgett Trough (Model NIMA-311D)

v  Surface Plasmon Resonance with FRA and Potentiostat (Autolab, Switzerland)

v  Potentiostat/Galvanostat (Princeton Applied Research, 273A)

v  FT-IR Perkin Elmer spectrum BX II

v  UV-visible Spectrophotometer (Shimadzu, Model 160A)

Expertise in Experimental Techniques

v  Synthesis of conducting polymer by chemical and electrochemical technique

v  Self-assembled monolayer film and Langmuir-Blodgett film preparation.

v  Zinc oxide, Cerium oxide, Iron oxide nanoparticles preparation.

v  Characterization of thin films of metal oxide, conducting polymer, SAM and nanocomposites using SEM, AFM, FT-IR, UV-visible, electrochemical impedance and cyclic voltammetry techniques

v  To study Sensor Characteristics e.g. effect of substrate concentration, pH, Shelf life, temperature and interferents etc.

Book Published

Ajeet Kaushik, Sharif Ahmad, Bansi. D. Malhotra, Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Nanocomposites for Sensing Application: Hybrid Nanocomposite based Biosensor for Ochratoxin-A, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing,  2011-10-05.

Book Chapter

A. A Ansari, P. R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik and B. D. Malhotra, “Recent Advances in Nano-Structrured Metal Oxides Based Electrochemical Biosensors for Clinical Diagnostics” in Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Biosensors ( NOVA publishers, NY, USA).

Publications

1        P. R. Solanki, M. K. Patel, Ajeet Kaushik, M. K. Pandey, R. K. Kotnala, B. D. Malhotra, Sol-gel derived nanostructured metal oxide platform for bacterial detection, Electroanalysis, (Accepted),

2        S. Srivastava, P. R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, Md. Azahar Ali, A. Srivastava, B. D. Malhotra,  A self assembled monolayer based microfluidic sensor for urea detection, Nanoscale, DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10240K (I.F. 4.1)

3        Pratima R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, Ved Varun, B.D. Malhotra, Recent Advances in Nanostructured Metal Oxides Based Biosensors, Nature Asia Materials, 3, 2011, 17-24.

4        Renu Singh, R Verma, Ajeet Kaushik, G. Sumana, S. Sood, R. K. Gupta, B. D. Malhotra, Chitosan-Iron Oxide Nano-composite Platform for Mismatch-Discriminating DNA Hybridization for Neisseria gonorrhoeae Detection  causing sexually transmitted disease, Biosensor and Bioelectronics, 26, 2011, 2967-2974 (I.F. 5.34).

5        P.R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, A.A. Ansari, G. Sumana and B.D. Malhotra “Horse redish peroxidise immobilized polyaniline for hydrogen peroxide sensor”, Polymers for Advanced Technologies. 22, 2011, 903-908.

6        Akhilesh Gupta, Nirmal Prabhakar, Renu Singh, Ajeeet Kaushik and Bansi D. Malhotra, Sol-gel derived Cerium oxide-silicon oxide nanocomposite for cypermethrin detection, Thin Solids Films 519, 2010, 1122-1127 (I.F. 2.02).

7        Pratima R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, T. Manaka, M. K. Pandey, M. Iwamoto and B. D. Malhotra, Self-Assembled Monolayer based Impedimetric Platform for Food Borne Mycotoxin Detection, Nanoscale, 2, 2811-2817 (2010) (I.F. 4.1).

8        Nirmal Prabhakar, Pratima R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, M.K. Pandey and B.D. Malhotra, Peptide Nucleic Acid Immobilized Biocompatible Silane Nanocomposite Platform for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Detection, Electroanalysis. 22, 2010, 2672-2682 (I.F. 3.0).

9        Ajeet Kaushik, Pratima R. Solanki^, M.K. Pandey, Keiichi Kaneto, Sharif Ahmad and Bansi D. Malhotra, Carbon Nanotubes - Chitosan nanobiocomposite for Immunosensor, Thin Solid Films, 519, 2010, 1160-1166 (I.F. 2.02).

10    Ajeet kaushik, P. R. Solanki, K. Kaneto, C. G. Kim, S. Ahmad, B.D. Malhotra, Nanostructured Iron Oxide Platform for Impedimetric Cholesterol Detection, Electroanalysis, 22, 2010, 22, 1045 – 1055 (I.F. 3.0).

11    Abdul Barik, Pratima R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, Azhar Ali, M.K. Pandey, C.G. Kim and B. D. Malhotra, Polyaniline-Carboxymethyl Cellulose Nanocomposite for Cholesterol Detection, J. Nanoscience & Nanotechnology,  10, 2010, 6479–6488 (I.F. 1.4).

12    A.A. Ansari, Ajeet Kaushik, P. R. Solanki and B.D. Malhota “Nanostructured ZnO for mycotoxin detection”, Bioelectrochemistry, 77, 2010, 75-81(I.F. 3.5)

13    A A Ansari and A Kaushik, Synthesis and optical properties of nanostructured Ce(OH)₄ J. Semicond. 31, 2010, 033001

14    Pratima R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, Pandurang Chavhan, S.N. Maheswari and B.D.Malhotra, “Nanostructured Zirconium Oxide Based Genosensor for E. coli Detection”, Electrochemistry Communications, 11, 2009, 2272-2277 (I.F. 4.86).

15    Ajeet Kaushik, Pratima R. Solanki, M. K. Pandey, Sharif Ahmad and B. D. Malhotra, “Cerium Oxide-Chitosan based Nanobiocomposite for Food Borne Mycotoxin Detection”, Applied Physics Letters, 95, 173703 (2009) (I.F. 3.8).

16    Ajeet Kaushik, Pratima R. Solanki, K.N. Sood, Sharif Ahmad and B. D. Malhotra “Fumed Silica Nanoparticles-Chitosan Nanobiocomposite for Ochratoxin-A Detection”, Electrochemistry Communications, 11 (2009) 1919–1923 (I.F. 4.86).

17    Azahar Ali, A.A. Anasari, Ajeet Kaushik, P.R. Solanki, Abdul Barik, M.K. Pandey and B.D. Malhotra “Nanostructured ZnO for urea sensor”, Materials Letters, 63 (2009) 2473–2475 (I.F. 2.15).

18    B. D. Malhotra and Ajeet Kaushik, “Metal Oxide-Chitosan Based Nanocomposite for Cholesterol Biosensor”, Thin Solid Films, 2009, 518, 614-620. (I.F. 1.93)

19    S. Ahmad, U. Riaz, Ajeet Kaushik and J. Alam, “Soft template synthesis of superparamagneticFe₃O₄ nanoparticles a Novel Technique" J. Inorganic Organometallic Polymers and Materials (2009) 19:355–360 (I.F. 1.43).

20    P.R. Solanki, C. Dhand, Ajeet Kaushik, A. A. Ansari, K. N. Sood and B.D. Malhotra “Nanostructured Cerium Oxide films for Triglyceride Senosr”, Sensors & Actuators B Chemical, 141, 2009, 551-556. (I.F. 3.36)

21    Ajeet Kaushik, P. R. Solanki, A. A.Ansari,  B.D. Malhotra and S. Ahmad ”Iron oxide-chitosan hybrid nanobiocomposite based nucleic acid sensor for pyrethroid detection”, Biochemical Engineering Journal 46, 2009, 132-140. (I.F. 2.6).

22    P. R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, A. A. Ansari and B.D. Malhotra, “Nanostructured ZnO film for cholesterol biosensor”, Applied Physics Letters, 94, 2009, 143901. (I.F. 3.8)

23    Ajeet Kaushik, P. R. Solanki, A. A. Ansari, G. Sumana, S. Ahmad and B. D. Malhotra, ”Iron Oxide-Chitosan Nanobiocomposite for Urea Sensor”, Sensors & Actuators B Chemical, 138, 2009, 572–580. (I.F. 3.36)

24    P.R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, A. A. Ansari, A.Tiwari and B.D. Malhotra, “Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes/Sol-gel Derived Silica/Chitosan Nanobiocomposite for Total Cholesterol Sensor”, Sensors & Actuators B Chemical, 137, 2009, 727-735. (I.F. 3.36)

25    A. A. Ansari, Ajeet Kaushik, P.R. Solanki and B. D. Malhotra, “Electrochemical Cholesterol Sensor Based on Tin Oxide – Chitosan Nano-biocomposite Film”, Electroanalysis, 21, 2009, 965 – 972. (I.F. 3.08).

26    Ajeet Kaushik, P. R. Solanki, A. A. Ansari, S. Ahmad and  B. D. Malhotra, “A nanostructured cerium oxide film based immunosensor for mycotoxin detection”, Nanotechnology, 20, 2009, 055105.  (I. F. 3.6) 

27    R. Khan, Ajeet Kaushik and A. P. Mishra, “Immobilization of cholesterol oxidase onto electrochemically polymerized film of biocompatible polyaniline-triton X-100”, Materials Science & Engineering C, 29, 2009, 1399-1403. (I.F. 2.17)

28    Ajeet Kaushik, R. Khan, V. Gupta, B. D. Malhotra, S. Ahmad and S.P. Singh, “Hybrid cross-linked polyaniline -WO₃ nanocomposite thin film using thermal vacuum deposition technique for NO_x gas sensing”, Journal of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, 9, (2009) 1792-1796. (IF 1.4)

29    R. Khan, P. R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, S. P. Singh, S. Ahmad and B. D. Malhotra, “Cholesterol biosensor based on electrochemically prepared polyaniline conducting polymer film in presence of a nonionic surfactant”. Journal of Polymer Research. 16, 2009, 363-373. (I.F. 1.13)

30    P.R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, A.A. Ansari, G. Sumana, B.D. Malhotra, “ZnO-Chitosan Nanobiocomposite Film for Urea Biosensor”, Applied Physics Letters, 93, 2008, 163903. (IF 3.8).

31    Ajeet Kaushik, R. Khan, P.R. Solanki, P. Pandey, S. Ahmad and B. D. Malhotra, “Iron oxide nanoparticle-chitosan composite based glucose biosensor”. Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 24, 2008, 676–683 (IF 5.3)

32    Ajeet Kaushik, P. R. Solanki, A.A. Ansari, S. Ahmad and B.D. Malhotra, “Chitosan-Iron Oxide Nanobiocomposite Based Immunosensor for Ochratoxin-A”, Electrochemistry Communications, 10, 2008, 1364-1368. (I.F. 4.86)

33    A. A. Ansari, A. Kaushik, P.R. Solanki and B.D. Malhotra, “Sol-del derived nanoporous cerium oxide film for application to cholesterol biosensor”, Electrochemistry Communications, 10, 2008, 1246-1249. (I.F. 4.86)

34    R. Khan, Ajeet Kaushik, P.R. Solanki, A. A. Ansari, M.K. Pandey and B.D. Malhotra, “Zinc oxide nanoparticle-chitosan composite film for cholesterol biosensor”. Analytica Chimica Acta, 616, 2008, 207-213. (I.F. 4.2)

35    Ajeet Kaushik, J. kumar, M. K. Tiwari, R. Khan, V. Gupta, B. D. Malhotra and S. P. Singh, “Fabrication and characterization of Polyaniline – ZnO Hybrid Nanocomposite thin Film”. Journal of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, 8, 2008, 1757-1761. (I.F. 1.4)

36    R. Mehrotra, A. Gupta, Ajeet Kaushik, N. Prakash and H. C. Kandpal, “Infrared spectroscopic analysis of tumor pathology, Indian Journal of experimental biology, 45, 2007, 71-76, (IF 0.55)

Conferences Participated

1         A. A. Ansari, P. R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, K. N. Sood, B. D. Malhotra, Polyaniline - Cerium Oxide Hybrid Nanocomposite for Biosensing Application, EMSI, Jhansi, 16-20 January 2009.

2         Ajeet Kaushik, P.R. Solanki, A. A. Ansari, M. K. Pandey, S. Ahmad, B.D. Malhotra, Chitosan Supported Iron Oxide Nanobiocomposite Based Immunosensor for Ochratoxin-A Detection, Second International Conference on Frontiers in Nanoscience and Technology-Cochin Nano -2009, Cochin, Jan 3-6, 2009.

3         Pratima R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, A. A. Ansari, M. K. Pandey, B. D. Malhotra, Sol-gel derived nanostructured ZnO film for cholesterol biosensor, Second International Conference on Frontiers in Nanoscience and Technology-Cochin Nano-2009, Cochin, Jan 3-6, 2009.

4         Ajeet Kaushik, P. R. Solanki, A. A. Ansari, M. K. Pandey, S. Ahmad, B. D. Malhotra, Sol-gel Derived Nanostructured Cerium Oxide Film Based Immunosensor for Ochratoxin A Detection, National Workshop on Nano Sensor and Devices, Dec 22-23, 2008,  IIT Delhi.

5         Pratima R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, A. A. Ansari, M. K. Pandey, S. Ahmad, B. D. Malhotra, Nanostructured ZnO platfoem for cholesterol biosensor, National Workshop on Nano Sensor and Devices, Dec 22-23, 2008, IIT Delhi.

6         Pratima R. Solanki, Ajeet Kaushik, R. Khan, G. Sumana, M. K. Pandey, B. D. Malhotra, “Electrochemical entrapment of horseradish peroxidase onto polyaniline film for biosensing application” at Indo-US Workshop for science and technology at Nano-Biointerface, held during Feb, 19-22, 2008 at Bhubneswar, India.

7         Ajeet Kaushik, R. Khan, P. R. Solanki, J. Alam, S. Ahmad, B. D. Malhotra, “Iron oxide nanoparticle/Chitosan composite for application to glucose biosensor” at Indo-US Workshop for science and technology at Nano-Biointerface, Feb, 19-22, 2008 at Bhubneswar, India.

8         Ajeet Kaushik, R. Khan, J. Kumar, A. A. Ansari, V. Gupta, S. Ahmad, B. D. Malhotra, S. P. Singh, Nanocomposite Thin film of Cross-Linked Polyaniline - WO₃ for sensing of NOx gases, The 8th Workshop on Biosensorsand Bioanalytical µ-Techniques in Environmental and Clinical Analysis, October 3-6, 2007, BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus, Goa India.

9         Ajeet Kaushik, R. Khan, J. Kumar, A. A. Ansari, S. P. Singh, S. Ahmad, B. D. Malhotra, Nanocomposite thin film of TX-100 doped polyaniline and ZnO nanoparticles using electrochemical polymerization, International Conference on Advanced Material and Composite (ICMS-2007), 24-27 October 2007, Trivandrum, India.

10     Anees A. Ansari, J. Kumar, Ajeet Kaushik, N. Singh, A. Tiwari, A. F. Khan, S. S. Bawa, B. D. Malhotra, S. P. Singh, Synthesis and characterization of pyridine functionalized TbF₃ nanoparticles (P-77). Multi functional Nanomaterials, Nanostructures and Applications (MNNA 2006)”,  December 22-23, 2006, at  University of Delhi, Delhi – 110 007.

11     Ajeet Kaushik, J. Kumar, A. Tiwari, S. Ahmad, B.D. Malhotra, Vinay Gupta, S.P. Singh “Polyaniline-ZnO Nanocomposite Thin Film for Sensing Application” in “Multifunctional Nanostructured Nanomaterials and  Applications”, October 22-23, 2006 at University of Delhi, New Delhi.

12     Attended a workshop entitled “A Workshop on NMR Spectroscopy and its Application” August 18-19, 2006 at Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi.

13     Attended a workshop entitled “Training Program on Photometry and Colorimetry”, March 26-31, 2006 at National physical laboratory, New Delhi.

14     Ajeet Kaushik, Ranjana Mehrotra, H.C. Kandpal “Change in physico-chemical structure of thermally degraded wood using near-infrared spectroscopy” in “International conference on current developments in atomic, molecular and optical physics with application (CDAMOP), March 21-23, 2006 at Delhi University, New Delhi.

15     Ajeet Kaushik, R. Mehrotra, H.C. Kandpal “Thermal degradation study of pulp using near infrared spectroscopy” in “Annual general meeting- material research society of India (AGM-MRSI 2006)”,  Feb. 13-15, 2006 at Lucknow.

16     Attended a conference entitled “General assembly on international union of radio science (URSI) 2005”, Oct 23 –29, 2005 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.

17     Attended a workshop entitled “Advances in structural characterization of materials”, March 30, 2005 at National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi.

18     Ajeet Kaushik, P. Singh, S. Goel, R. Mehrotra, H.C. Kandpal “Determination of moisture in raw tobacco by using diffuse reflectance near infrared spectroscopy” in “Advances in Metrology”, New Delhi, Feb 23 –25, 2005 at National physical Laboratory, New Delhi.

19     Ajeet Kaushik, R. Mehrotra, H.C. Kandpal “Vibrational spectroscopic studies on cellulosic materials” in “International Conference on Spectrophysics (INCONS-05)”,  Feb 9-12, 2005 at Chennai.

References

Dr. B. D. Malhotra,               

Scientist ‘G’

Head, Department of Science and Technology

Centre on Biomolecular Electronics,              

National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi.

E-mail-bansi.malhotra@gmail.com

Prof. Sharif Ahmad       

Materials Research Laboratory,

Department of Chemistry,

Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110012

Email: sharifahmad_jmi@yahoo.co.in               

Prof. Shekhar Bhansali

Chair: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

Florida International University,

10555 West Flagler St. EC3900,

Miami, Florida FL 33174          

Email: sbhansa@fiu.edu     

(AJEET KUMAR KAUSHIK)