Research Staff

Anjan Panneer Selvam – Senior Research Scientist

Anjan earned his Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering from UT Dallas and currently working as Senior Research Scientist at BMNL for multiple industry sponsored research projects. He also serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Bioengineering. He received his Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering and earned his Master’s in Biomedical Engineering. Anjan specialized in engineering electrode-electrolyte interfaces towards novel signal transduction mechanism that can be used in next gen quantitative biosensors. His current focus is on integrating techniques and technologies from multi-disciplinary research areas towards novel biosensor devices that can improve healthcare.

Raji Kumar – Research Scientist

Raji earned her Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering and currently working as Research Scientist in industry sponsored research projects at BMNL. Her research focus is on design and development of lab-on-a-chip electrokinetic methods for label-free screening and characterization of cells. She also works on immunoassay design for robust screening of protein biomarkers using electrochemical detection modalities towards development of point-of-care consumer diagnostics.

Nandhinee Radha Shanmugam – Research Scientist

Nandhinee earned her Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering from UT Dallas and is currently working as Research Scientist in industry sponsored research projects at BMNL. Her primary research interest focuses on zinc oxide nanostructures and leveraging their surface properties towards biosensing applications. Her areas of expertise include clean room fabrication processes, biochemical assay and process development, electrochemical analysis techniques and structural characterization techniques.

Kai-Chun Lin (Kevin) – Research Associate

Kevin received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from National Taiwan University. He obtained his PhD degree in Materials Science Engineering in 2014 from the Arizona State University. His multidisciplinary research work on integrating biogenic silica nanostructures (i.e. diatom) with micromachined silicon substrates in a hybrid device, and some other potential applications of diatoms. Diatom frustules give researchers many inspiration and ideas for the design and production of novel nanostructured materials. Here are some applications of biogenic silica: 1) Using diatom frustule as protein sensor. 2) Using diatom nanostructures as template to fabricate nano metal materials. 3) Using diatom nanostructures to fabricate hybrid platform.

David Kinnamon – Research Engineer

David Kinnamon started in the BMNL as an undergraduate volunteer during his junior year. As part of the Department of Bioengineering’s fast track program David transitioned into the BE graduate program upon completion of his B.S. degree in May of 2015. At that point he began to pursue his M.S. degree as part of the BMNL team. He completed his M.S. degree in one year, graduating in August of 2016 with his thesis entitled: “Development of a wearable electrochemical biosensor for alcohol consumption monitoring”. He is currently a Research Engineer at BMNL with focus being on the design and fabrication of flexible sensing electrodes, and implementation of portable instrumentation towards portable biosensors.