1. Sunanda Prabhu-Gaunkar, Resume 1
Sunanda Prabhu-Gaunkar
445 East Ohio Street, Apt 3311 Phone: 847-418-1108
Chicago, IL 60611 sunprabhug@gmail.com
EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE
RADIUS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, CHICAGO, IL, USA July 2015 – Present
Scientist, electrical engineer and nanotechnology specialist
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (NU), EVANSTON, IL, USA May 2014 – Dec 2015
Postdoctoral staff at Northwestern University Micro/Nano Fabrication Facility (NUFAB)
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, EVANSTON, IL, USA Sept 2008 - May 2014
Ph.D. & Masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, GPA: 3.90/4.00
Dissertation: Magnetic-, Electrostatic-, and Strain-tuning of Multicomponent Quantum Well Transport
KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, EVANSTON, IL, USA June - Aug 2011
Certificate Summer Program: Management for Scientists and Engineers,
Topics: Strategy, Intellectual Property, Accounting, Finance, Business Econ., Negotiation, Leadership, and Marketing
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, PALAISEAU, FRANCE June 2005 - June 2009
Ingénieur de Ecole Polytechnique (Equivalent to Bachelors and Masters),
Majors: Applied Mathematics and Micro-Nano-Opto Electronics
PORTFOLIO (CONSULTING, UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL LAB, & INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS)
RADIUS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, ELECTRICAL ENGINEER & NANOTECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST July 2015 – Present
Contributed to several stages in end-to-end product development of various consumer products: engineering, research, concept
exploration and ideation, prototyping, analytics, and strategy
• Design and prototyping of electronic circuits for sensors, motors, and various electro-mechanical products
• Optimization of design parameters and data analysis using design of experiments for new medical device development
• Verification and validation testing for medical devices
• Strategy development to implement an “internet of things” ecosystem in various sectors such as home, manufacturing, etc.
• Use case development and engineering support for smart packaging related technology demonstrations.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, POSTDOCTORAL STAFF SCIENTIST Spring 2014 – Dec 2014
• Installation of new cleanroom tools, maintenance and safety officer of the NUFAB tools and facility
• Research on Bio-MEMS devices: Design of nano-probe cantilever and fabrication of devices that can trap bio-cells
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE RESEARCH & TEACHING ASSISTANT Fall 2007 – Spring 2014
Investigated spin- and valley-degeneracies in multivalley quantum well systems experimentally and theoretically
• Filed invention disclosure for a provisional utility patent on valleytronic memory device.
• Designed and built electronic machinery for data collection from a low temperature cryostat system and wrote software
interfaces in LABVIEW to interface with new hardware equipment
• Fabricated hardware prototypes such as sample holders, breakout boxes etc. for measurement equipment in the lab
• Trained and advised two masters and six undergraduate students for their thesis, research, and summer grant funding
• Built mathematical models to control multivalley degeneracies in quantum well systems
ARGONNE NATIONAL LABS, RESEARCH INVESTIGATOR USER Jan 2012 – May 2014
• First-authored two research grants for Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM)
• Conducted state-of-art nanoscale fabrication at the CNM clean room facility
• Reduced sample fabrication turnaround of delicate gated samples from one month to two weeks
WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUTE, TUM, GERMANY, RESEARCH COLLABORATOR July 2007 - May 2014
• Developed protocols for sample fabrication and characterized aluminum arsenide AlAs(111) quantum wells
• Modeled strained semiconductor bandstructures with modeling simulation software

2. Sunanda Prabhu-Gaunkar, Resume 2
SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY, SOUTH KOREA, SUMMER INTERN Mar - Aug 2007
• Studied chemical doping effects in carbon nanotube thin film transistors for Samsung industrial partners
TECHNICAL SKILLS
FABRICATION & SHOP SKILLS
• Nanofabrication, Maker Prototyping, Data acquisition system, Analog circuit design, Sensors and Transducers, worked
with low temperature Magnet systems, Machining wood and metal, Force testing, and Microscopy
COMPUTER & ELECTRONICS SKILLS
• Layout editors & CAD modeling (AutoCAD, Solidworks, LEdit), Programming Languages (Java, C++), Statistical
Data Analysis (Matlab, JMP), Electronics software (Labview, OriginPro, nextnano), Cloud packages for IoT
integration (AWS basics), Design software (Adobe Creative Cloud, Coreldraw, Inkscape, SketchUp)
LANGUAGE SKILLS
• English, Hindi, Konkani, Marathi: Native fluency; French: Fluent; Japanese, German: Basic reading and oral skills
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS
2011, 2010 First and Third place (respectively), Graduate student poster competition, NU EECS
2009 - 12 Ryan Fellowship for excellence in interdisciplinary nanotechnology research, NU
2007 Murphy Fellowship in recognition of excellent academic record, NU
2004 French Government Scholarship, top 10% of 500 candidatures
LEADERSHIP
FRENCH OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, STUDENT LIASON FOR CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN 2011-2015
• Annual event organizing committee and NU coordinator for French-US Science festival in Chicago
• Organized hands-on booth for ‘Energy and Sustainability’ and for ‘Nanotechnology’ for high school students
INDIAN GRADUATE STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION (IGSSA), NU, ELECTED PRESIDENT Aug 2011-2012
• Organized monthly community building events for NU and neighboring universities, awarded best NU student body
RYAN FELLOWS, NU, MEMBER OF ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Aug 2011-2012
• Organized monthly US speaker seminar series and monthly Ryan member lunch event
• Participated in hand-on activities at the museum of science and industry for yearly nanoday event
TRANSCULTURA, PARIS, Invited Student Member 2001-2006
• Participated in meeting on creation of Transcultura Youth network with renowned writer Umberto Eco 2006
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS
• M.Grayson, J.Koch, S.Prabhu-Gaunkar, W. Zhou, “Valleytronic non-volatile memory devices”, Patent in
preparation, Invention disclosure filed in Nov 2013.
• S. Prabhu-Gaunkar, S. Dasgupta, S. Birner, C. Knaak, M. Grayson, "Valley degeneracy in biaxially strained
aluminum arsenide quantum wells", Phys. Rev. B 84, 125319 (2011)
• F.Herzog, M.Bichler, G.Koblmuller, S. Prabhu-Gaunkar, W. Zhou, M.Grayson, "Optimization of AlAs/AlGaAs
quantum wells on on-axis and misoriented GaAs (111)B", Applied Physics Letters, 100, 192106 (2012)
REFERENCES
Toriono Granger, Matthew Grayson (Thesis Advisor)
Director of Engineering, Radius Product Development Associate Professor, Northwestern University
toriono.granger@radiuspd.com mgrayson@eecs.northwestern.edu