This document contains the resume of Bhaswati Choudhury. It summarizes her educational and professional background, including receiving a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida. Her research focused on plasma reactors for applications like flow control and water disinfection. She has published papers in journals like Nature and conferences. She also has skills in experimental techniques and computational modeling tools.

1. Bhaswati Choudhury
bhaswatic@ufl.edu ▪ 3800 SW 34th Street #293 Gainesville FL 32608 ▪ (352)-363-0101 ▪ www.linkedin.com/in/BhaswatiC
Profile summary
▪ Research experience through study of plasma reactors for flow control, ozone distribution and disinfection.
▪ Proficient in thermal/fluid sciences, plasma physics, plasma reactor fabrication, bacteria culturing, PIV, FEA & CFD.
▪ Published in Nature journal (Scientific Reports) and conferences (AIAA, APS, ASME).
▪ Achieved the best dissertation award by the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept. at University of Florida.
Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (GPA 3.6/4) May 2020
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (GPA 3.5/4) Dec 2016
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India (GPA 8/10) May 2014
Skills
Experimental: Photolithography, Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), PCB design and assembly, BSL-3 trained.
Computational: [ Fourier Analysis, FEA, CFD ] [ ANSYS, SolidWorks, MATLAB ] [ Fortran, C, C++ ].
Experience
University of Florida (UF), Gainesville, Florida
Graduate Research Assistant | Applied Physics Research Group (APRG) Aug 2015-May 2020
▪ Led projects on plasma reactors for flow control, species distribution and disinfection.
▪ Fabricated configurations of surface dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma reactors.
▪ Built low power, compact circuits based on in-house circuit design to operate the reactors.
▪ Managed lab equipment; prepared grant proposals; mentored undergraduates.
Graduate Teaching Assistant | Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Jan 2015-May 2020
▪ Designed and instructed lectures on ‘Thermodynamics’.
▪ Demonstrated experiments in the ‘Thermo-heat and Fluids lab’.
Instructor | Center for Precollegiate Education & Training May 2018-Aug 2018
▪ Delivered seminars on research methods, Fourier Transform and PIV.
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Research Intern | Multiphase Flow, Combustion and Laser Diagnostic Lab
▪ Characterized transition of recirculation structures in a swirling coaxial jet. [PIV, MATLAB] May 2013-Aug 2013
▪ Computed size, velocity and generation frequency of bubbles in the evaporator. [MATLAB] May 2012-Aug 2012
Published Projects | APRG | UF
Low power, compact, atmospheric surface DBD plasma reactor for water disinfection (Experimental):
▪ Engineered low power, compact ozone-based water disinfection system.
▪ Achieved 5 log reduction in <5 mins with 68.6 g/KWh ozone yield and 2.2 W avg reactor power consumption.
▪ Published results in Scientific Reports, Nature.
Performance evaluation of flow and ozone distribution with plasma reactor configurations (Computational):
▪ Implemented and validated 3D flow simulation with species (O2, N2, O3) in ANSYS using parallel computation (MPI).
▪ Developed plasma force models for reactor configurations with species reactions in C.
▪ Published results in American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2020 Scitech Forum and exposition.
Flow control and ozone distribution for disinfection with a novel plasma reactor design (Experimental):
▪ Established enhanced spatiotemporal ozone distribution (~70%) compared to comb reactor design.
▪ Obtained plasma reactor generated flow fields, ozone distribution and distribution in disinfection.
▪ Published results in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
Surface plasma deactivation of Legionella infected multi-organism biofilms (Experimental):
▪ Achieved total 6 log reduction in Legionella infected biofilms within 5 mins at 35 V input DC voltage.
▪ Tested various dielectric materials for effective installation of surface DBD plasma reactors in water pipes.
▪ Published results in Emerging Pathogens Institute Research Day, University of Florida.
Affiliations
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Society of Women Engineers (SWE-UF), Computer Society of
India (CSI-NITK), Semiconductor Career Readiness Organization (SCRO-UF).

2. Other Projects | APRG and Coursework | UF
Surface DBD Plasma reactors to increase aerodynamic performance of airfoils (APRG):
▪ Fabricated and tested different reactor configurations for flow control in an airfoil.
Study of MnO2 coated wire plasma reactors for ozone mitigation (APRG):
▪ Observed 80%, 36% and 9% reduction in ozone levels, generated force and resulting velocities.
▪ Established that MnO2 coated wires reduce ozone levels at the cost of reduced velocities.
Numerical study of inviscid instability of a laminar jet profile to sinuous and varicose modes (Advanced CFD):
▪ Obtained growth rate and frequency of the two modes as a function of the streamwise wave number in MATLAB.
Numerical study of a 2D driven cavity problem in a square cavity (Advanced CFD):
▪ Solved and verified 2D incompressible Navier Stokes equations using the time splitting approach in MATLAB.
Solution of Poisson equation using OpenMP, MPI and GPGPU programming (High Performance Computing):
▪ Solved and verified Poisson equation using Jacobi in Fortran and C with OpenMP, MPI and GPGPU programming.
Presentations, Proceedings and Papers
▪ Bhaswati Choudhury, Sherlie E. Portugal, Judith A. Johnson, Subrata Roy (2018). “Inactivation of Pseudomonas
aeruginosa and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an open water system with ozone generated by a
compact, atmospheric DBD plasma reactor.” Scientific reports, Nature 8(1), p.17573.
▪ Bhaswati Choudhury, Sherlie E. Portugal, Judith A. Johnson, Subrata Roy (2020). “Performance evaluation of fan and
comb shaped plasma reactors for distribution of generated ozone in a confined space.” American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics 2020 Scitech Forum and exposition. Session: PDL-08, Plasma Actuators I.
▪ Sherlie E. Portugal, Bhaswati Choudhury, Subrata Roy (2020). Fan plasma reactor design for flow control and
enhancement of ozone distribution. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 53, no. 22 (2020): 22LT01.
▪ R. Santhosh, Bhaswati Choudhury, Ankur Miglani, Saptarshi Basu (2013). Near-field flow characterization of isothermal
coaxial swirling jet. DFD13 Annual Meeting of The American Physical Society. Session M14.
▪ R. Santhosh, Bhaswati Choudhury, Ankur Miglani, Saptarshi Basu (2013). Further Characterization of Transition of
Recirculation Structures in Isothermal Swirling Coaxial Jet. ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference
proceedings (HMTC1300231).
▪ Bhaswati Choudhury, Sherlie E. Portugal, Judith A. Johnson, Subrata Roy (2018). “DBD Surface Plasma Deactivation
of Multi-Organism Biofilms with Legionella.” Emerging Pathogens Institute Research Day, University of Florida.
Academic Achievements
▪ MAE Best Dissertation Award by the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UF (2020).
▪ Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Achievement Award for New Graduate students at UF (2014).
▪ Undergraduate Research Programme Fellowship Award by University of Southern California in the Dept. of Mechanical
Engineering at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2013).
Voluntary work
▪ Helped school students with science fair projects for the P.K. Yonge Science Olympiad as a part of SWE-UF. (2018)
▪ Mentored undergraduate researcher as a part of the UF outreach program: SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research at
Florida). (2017)
▪ Instructed lectures as a part of the UF outreach program: SSTP (Student Science Training program). (2018)
Extracurricular
▪ Member of Gator Chess Club, 2017-present.
▪ Member of Music Club-NITK, 2010-2014
▪ Recipient of the “Cultural Talent Search Scholarship” - a National scholarship in Hindustani Music (instrumental-violin),
from the Centre for Cultural Researches and Training New Delhi, 2004-2007
▪ Bachelors in Indian classical music (Visharad) in Violin from Bhatkhande Sangit Vidyapith, Lucknow in 2004