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Kumar, Navneet

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Navneet Kumar received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree from Manipal Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India in 2012. He joined GE Healthcare, Mumbai as a Field Service Engineer after completing his Bachelors, and later he was involved in handling the installation of molecular imaging equipment for the entire western India region. Navneet moved to the US in 2018 for his Master of Science (MSc) degree (non-thesis based) from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and graduated in December 2019. He started his Doctor in Philosophy (PhD) in solid-state electronic devices in January 2021 under Dr. Karthik Shankar’s supervision at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. His ongoing research interests include working on developing/studying semiconductor nanostructures, plasmonic nanomaterials and fabrication of patterned nanostructures using electron beam lithography (EBL) for photocatalytic applications such as artificial photosynthesis. He is also extensively trained on various equipment used for characterisation of the synthesised nanomaterials and physical vapor deposition (PVD) techniques. 
 
Kumar, Navneet