3 Indian American Scientists Honoured with U.S. Presidential Award

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Bangalore: Three Indian American scientists has been honoured with the ‘Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers’, by U.S. President Barack Obama.

"Discoveries in science and technology not only strengthen our economy, they inspire us as a people." Obama said announcing the awards. "The impressive accomplishments of today's awardees so early in their careers promise even greater advances in the years ahead.

The award which was established in the year 1996 is the topmost honour given by the United States Government to talented professionals in the field of science and engineering, during the beginning stages of their research careers. Here are the three scientists who have been recognized by the U.S. government-

Sridevi Vedula Sarma

Sridevi Sarma is the assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Institute of Computational Medicine, John Hopkins University.

Her research areas include developing control-oriented input-output models of basal ganglia nuclei, designing feedback control algorithms and developing point process models of single neurons.

Sarma holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science respectively from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.



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