Kavitha Illath

About

I am a Biomedical engineering researcher, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation.
My research interests include microfluidics, organ-on-a-chip, nanomaterials synthesis, hybrid nanomaterials, intracellular delivery, photoporation, computational fluid dynamics, signals and image processing, and machine learning

Employment

• Terasaki Research Institute Postdoctoral Researcher
  2026 - Present
• University of Central Florida Postdoctoral Scholar
  2024 - 2026
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Research Associate
  2023 - 2024
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Postdoctoral Equivalent Fellow
  2023 - 2023

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Ph. D.
  2018 - 2023
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras M.S.
  2015 - 2018

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (15)

• Ultra-low intensity light pulses for large cargo delivery into hard-to-transfect cells using an rGO mixed PDMS microtip device
  Lab on a Chip 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00121D
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• Microfluidic device-based synthesis of highly monodispersed dumbbell-shaped gold nanorods and their biocompatibility evaluation
  Chemical Engineering Science 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2023.119273
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• Surface plasmon resonance tunable gold nanostar synthesis in a symmetric flow-focusing droplet device
  Surfaces and Interfaces 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.surfin.2022.102478
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• Microfluidic device-fabricated spiky nano-burflower shape gold nanomaterials facilitate large biomolecule delivery into cells using infrared light pulses
  Lab on a Chip 2023 DOI: 10.1039/D3LC00341H
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• Microfluidic mechanoporation for cellular delivery and analysis
  Materials Today Bio 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.mtbio.2021.100193
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• Microfluidic nanomaterials: From synthesis to biomedical applications
  Biomaterials 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2021.121247
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• Microfluidic platforms for single neuron analysis
  Materials Today Bio 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.mtbio.2022.100222
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• Microfluidic Based Physical Approaches towards Single-Cell Intracellular Delivery and Analysis
  Micromachines 2021 DOI: 10.3390/mi12060631
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• A Review of Single-Cell Adhesion Force Kinetics and Applications
  Cells 2021 DOI: 10.3390/cells10030577
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• Gold-Polystyrene Core-Shell Hybrid Nanoparticles Mediated Highly Efficient Intracellular Delivery Using Light Pulses
  2021 IEEE 34th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) 2021 DOI: 10.1109/mems51782.2021.9375300
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