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Dr. Sumedha N. Prabhu earned a B.Sc. in biotechnology from the University of Mumbai, India, in 2011, and a master's degree in biotechnology from the same university in 2013. She has pursued a PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from the School of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her thesis is entitled "Development of a Point-of-Care Diagnostic Prototype System for Kidney Health Monitoring". Her research interest includes smart sensing systems, the internet of things, and embedded systems for the early detection of various diseases in humans. Currently, Sumedha is working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA under Assoc. Prof. Tao Li.
Sumedha has worked as a Senior Research Assistant in the School of Health Sciences at The University of Newcastle, Australia under Laureate Prof. Clare Collins.
Sumedha was awarded AUD 5000.00, a highly competitive Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Fund (PGRF) grant during her early third year of PhD. Sumedha has received two People's Choice Awards during her PhD candidature.
Recently Sumedha won a Silver Award from the Early Career Women in STEM Paper & Grant Writing Association. The competition was jointly organized by the University of Technology Sydney, Australian National University, The University of Sydney, Material Australia, Electron Devices Society, ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, Australian Institute of Physics, MDPI crystals journal, ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals and ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems.
Sumedha has also participated in 3 Minute Thesis (3MT), an Asia Pacific level competition which was initiated by The University of Queensland, and she won a total of 3 prizes at Macquarie University level. In the 3MT competition, she initially won third prize at the School of Engineering level. On further levels, she also won two People’s Choice Awards, first at the Faculty of Science and Engineering and second at the entire Macquarie University level. During this time, she was honoured twice with cash prizes and once with a small research grant. After her 3MT People’s Choice win on the entire university level, the Macquarie University celebrated Sumedha's win with her official photoshoot. They also invited SBS world news presenter for Australia, Mr Anton Enus, to train Sumedha for an even better presentation style. Macquarie University had also audio-visually recorded her 3MT speech in their on-campus video recording studio. Her audio-visually recorded 3MT speech in the MQ video recording studio was posted by Macquarie University on their official YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdXO71T9bTQ&feature=youtu.be). Sumedha's 3MT success was posted by the School of Engineering Department in their monthly newsletter. Her 3MT compete success was covered by journalist Rhea Nath from an Indo-Australian Media channel called IndianLink media over the telephonic interview and published Sumedha's success on their official media website (https://www.indianlink.com.au/features/5-minute-home-kidney-health-test-wins-three-uni-awards/), Twitter handle, LinkedIn as well as a Facebook page. Sumedha has also received an offer to commercialise my Point-of-Care diagnostic device prototype system on a larger scale from TiE Sydney (an entrepreneur supportive non-profit organization from the greater Sydney area).
Community engagement:
Sumedha is an active member of the professional technical society like IEEE. IEEE Macquarie University Student Branch Women in Engineering has also recognized her research work and success. They invited her as a guest speaker in their Women in Engineering workshop where she delivered a talk over a topic entitled “Girl’s Voice”.
Research interests:
Sumedha's PhD research focuses on kidney healthcare from home. She has also developed a prototype model that allows the connection of a functionalised sensor and selective measurement of creatinine levels from samples. This device transmits creatinine level data to the internet and can be used in the future by physicians to track the health records of their patients from distance (Point-of-Care). In the future, with further development on her prototype system, a patient can measure their creatinine concentration by testing a single blood drop at home. Therefore, Sumedha's developed prototype model has a huge scope as a diagnostic tool in modern pathological research. The main important parameters of her work can be listed as functionality, specificity, repeatability, reusability, accuracy, low-cost, low-power, long-distance, and portability. Sumedha has currently developed a Point-of-Care diagnostic device prototype system for the detection of creatinine from the human serum samples. In near future, she has the plan to develop similar Point-of-Care diagnostic device for the detection of blood urea nitrogen from the human serum samples.
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Medical devices & sensorsno. 6 (2020)
SENSORS IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET OF THINGS Technologies and Applications (2019): 171-199
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H-Index: 6
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