About Me

I am originally from New Delhi, India. I obtained my bachelors degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1986.  I joined the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1986 where I got my masters degree (1987) as well as my doctoral degree (1992) in chemical engineering. I started my academic career at  Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida as an Assistant Professor in 1992 and got promoted to Associate Professor in 1997 and Full Professor in 2003. In 2007, I moved to the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama as Professor and Department Chair. In 2015, I moved to Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas where I served as Dean of Engineering until 2018 and Associate Provost of Research and Sponsored Programs until 2019. From 2019 to 2021, I was the Regional Director for TMAC-Southeast, a federally funded research center at Lamar University. In 2021, I joined West Virginia University as the Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering .

I am the third generation from my family to get a doctoral degree. My grandfather got his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics (1943) and my father got his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (1975). I have published the following research papers with my children:

• Rupa Palanki, S. Chamarthy and S. Palanki, "Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Diabetes Diagnoses in the United States: A County-Level Analysis," Economic Affairs, 41(1), 111-122, 2021
• Rohan Palanki, J. Poiroux, and S. Palanki, "Design and Evaluation of a Low-cost Piezoelectric Device for Remote Diagnosis of Respiratory Diseases," Int. J. Bioautomation, 19(4): 521-530, 2015
• Rohan Palanki, S. Arora, N. Tyagi, L. Rusu, A.P. Singh, S. Palanki, J.E. Carter, and S. Singh, "Size is an Essential Parameter in Governing the UVB-protective Efficacy of Silver Nanoparticles in Human Keratinocytes," BMC Cancer, 15:636, 2015
• S. Arora, N. Tyagi, A. Bhardwaj, L. Rusu, Rohan Palanki, K. Vig, S.R. Singh, A.P. Singh, S. Palanki, M.E. Miller, J.E. Carter, and S. Singh, "Silver Nanoparticles Protect Human Keratinocytes against UVB Radiation-Induced DNA Damage and Apoptosis: Potential for Prevention of Skin Carcinogenesis," Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 11(5), 1265-1275; 2015

I love to travel and have visited 49 countries.