Abstract :
Prashant Tathireddy received a bachelor´s degree in Chemical Technology from the Osmania University, Hyderabad, India in 1997. He was a project leader at Computer Maintenance Corporation Private Limited, Hyderabad, India till 1999. He received a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering in June 2005 from University of Utah. He later joined the Microsystems Laboratory at the U as a post doctoral fellow and worked in that position till 2007. He received Fraunhofer´s ‘outstanding research scientist fellowshipv’ award in 2007 and was posted as a guest scientist for over a year at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT), St. Ingbert, Germany. He currently holds a position as research assistant professor in the department of electrical engineering at the University of Utah and also as a manager of the Utah branch of Fraunhofer Institute of Reliability and Integration (IZM).