Ph.D. (Macquarie University, Australia) 

M.Sc. (University of Mumbai, India)

B.Sc. (University of Mumbai, India)

Dr. Sumedha Nitin Prabhu received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biotechnology from the University of Mumbai, India, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She received a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in 2022. Her research and teaching interests include topics like Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Intelligent Nano and Micro Biosystems, Biomarker Detection, Inflammation, Ageing, Functionalized Biomaterials, Smart Biosensors, Smart MEMS Biosensors, Flexible/Non-Flexible Biosensors, Wearable/Implantable Biosensors, Organ-on-Chip, Medical Chip, Early Diagnostics, Critical Patient Health Care, Medical Point-of-Care Device and its Fabrication, Smart Health Care Miniaturized Technologies, MedTech Actionable Diagnostic Devices, Microfluidic Devices, etc. She enjoys motivating and guiding undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students in cutting-edge biosensing research for advanced state-of-the-art healthcare diagnostic development purposes. She is motivated and targeted toward fabricating novel MEMS-based biosensing devices. She has published her research work in various journal manuscripts and book chapters with international publishers. She has presented her research work at international IEEE and other tier 1 conferences and international poster competitions. During her Ph.D. candidature, Sumedha received two People’s Choice Awards and a Silver Award. She was also awarded with scholarships, academic honors, several prizes, academic research funds, and two inter-university competitive grants for her innovative research work. Sumedha is also a winner of the second "Best PhD Thesis 2021" prize. Sumedha's work was recognized in Australian press media.

Sumedha completed her first postdoc at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and her second postdoc at the University of Cincinnati, USA. During her second postdoc, a group of researchers, including Sumedha, secured 2.5 million USD in funding for their research project. Sumedha has co-guided 3 PhD students, 6 M.Sc. Research students, 1 M.S. Research student, and 4 B.E. students.

Sumedha served as a reviewer for 6 IEEE international conferences. She has reviewed over 200 scientific manuscripts and actively serves as a reviewer for 34+ international journals from different peer-reviewed publishers such as IEEE, MDPI, ACS Sensors, Springer Nature, PriMera, PeerJ, Qeios, Artificial Intelligence in Health, ACCC Science Publishing, etc. She acted as an international conference Programme committee member for an IEEE international conference in Australia. She was invited to contribute as a special session chair for two international IEEE conferences on the topic "Bio-Med Applications and Medical Devices" in India and Australia. She was appointed as an invited special session chair for an IEEE international conference in India on the topics "Electrochemical Biosensors and Energy Harvesters" and "MEMS Sensors and Energy Harvesters". She was honored as a Young Women in Sensors "WiSe" panelist during an IEEE conference in India. Sumedha has delivered invited scientific talks on multiple international platforms. In the start of year 2025, Sumedha was globally recognized as an "Outstanding Reviewer of 2024" by the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement journal. Sumedha is an active Associate Editor for PriMera Scientific Engineering Publications. She is also serving as a guest editor for the MDPI Electronics special session entitled “Biomedical Applications of Smart Sensors” in 2025.

Selected peer-reviewed publications (*corresponding author; Google citations: https://scholar.google.cz/citations?user=nWSk4IIAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN&oi=ao)

1) Molecularly Imprinted Polymer-based detection of creatinine towards smart sensing

Details: Prabhu, S.N.*, Mukhopadhyay, S.C., Gooneratne, C.P., Davidson, A.S. and Liu, G. (2020), Molecularly Imprinted Polymer‐based detection of creatinine towards smart sensing, Med Devices Sens, 3: e10133. doi:10.1002/mds3.10133

2) IoT-Associated Impedimetric Biosensing for Point-of-Care Monitoring of Kidney Health

Details: S. Prabhu*, C. Gooneratne, K. A. Hoang and S. Mukhopadhyay, IoT-Associated Impedimetric Biosensing for Point-of-Care Monitoring of Kidney Health, in IEEE Sensors Journal, (Early Access) doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3011848

3) Development of MEMS Sensor for Detection of Creatinine using MIP Based Approach - A Tutorial Paper

Details: S. N. Prabhu*, C. P. Gooneratne and S. C. Mukhopadhyay, Fellow, IEEE, Development of MEMS Sensor for Detection of Creatinine using MIP Based Approach - A Tutorial Paper, IEEE Sensors Journal Special Issue on Sensors Tutorials: A Vigorous Dive into the Vast Sea of Sensor-Related Knowledge, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3077060

4) Functionality Evaluation of Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems Sensor for Varied Selective Functionalization Thickness to Determine Creatinine Concentration

Details: S. N. Prabhu*, S. C. Mukhopadhyay and R. Morello, "Functionality Evaluation of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Sensor for Varied Selective Functionalization Thickness to Determine Creatinine Concentration," in IEEE Sensors Journal, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3081828

5) Sensors and Techniques for Creatinine Detection: A Review

Details: S. N. Prabhu*, S. C. Mukhopadhyay and G. Liu, "Sensors and Techniques for Creatinine Detection: A Review," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 11427-11438, 15 June 15, 2022, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3174818

6) Green route synthesis of stable isotropic gold nanoparticles using leaf extract of Curcuma longa and their characterization

Details: Sumedha N. Prabhu*, Green route synthesis of stable isotropic gold nanoparticles using leaf extract of Curcuma longa and their characterization, in Pelagia Research Library Advances in Applied Science Research, 2015, 6(8), ISSN: 0976-8610, pp 167-179.

https://www.imedpub.com/abstract/green-route-synthesis-of-stable-isotropic- goldnanoparticles-using-leaf-extractrnof-curcuma-longa-and-their-characterization-13672.html

7) Interdigital sensing system for detection of levels of creatinine from the samples

Details: S. N. Prabhu*, S. C. Mukhopadhyay, C. Gooneratne, A. S. Davidson and G. Liu, Interdigital sensing system for detection of levels of creatinine from the samples, 2019 13^th International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST), ISBN:978-1-7281-4807-6, 2-4 Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICST46873.2019.9047672

8) Highly selective Molecularly Imprinted Polymer for creatinine detection

Details: S. N. Prabhu*, S. C. Mukhopadhyay, A. S. Davidson and G. Liu, Highly selective Molecularly Imprinted Polymer for creatinine detection, 2019 13^th International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST), ISBN:978-1-7281-4807-6, 2-4 Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia, 2019, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICST46873.2019.9047696

9) Development of a Point-of-Care diagnostic smart sensing system to detect creatinine levels

Details: S. Prabhu*, C. Gooneratne, K. Anh Hoang and S. Mukhopadhyay, Development of a Point-of-Care diagnostic smart sensing system to detect creatinine levels, 2020 IEEE 63^rd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), ISBN:978-1- 72818058-8, 9-12 Aug. 2020, Springfield, MA, USA, 2020, pp. 77-80, doi:

10.1109/MWSCAS48704.2020.9184441

10) A unique developmental study in the design of Point-of-Care medical diagnostic device for kidney healthcare of metastatic brain cancer patients to avoid chemotherapy side-effects

Details: Ms Sumedha N. Prabhu¹*, Prof. Subhas C. Mukhopadhyay¹, 4^th International Conference on Communication Devices and Networking 2020 (ICCDN 2020), Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, India. (Virtual Presentation). doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-2911- 2_38

11) IoT Enabled PoC Medical Diagnostic MEMS-Based Sensor Device for Kidney Healthcare

Details: Prabhu, S.N.*, Mukhopadhyay, S.C. (2022). IoT Enabled PoC Medical Diagnostic MEMS-Based Sensor Device for Kidney Healthcare. In: Suryadevara, N.K., George, B., Jayasundera, K.P., Roy, J.K., Mukhopadhyay, S.C. (eds) Sensing Technology. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 886. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-98886-9_20

12) Interdigital Sensing System for Kidney Health Monitoring

Details: S. N. Prabhu¹*, C. P. Gooneratne², K. A. Hoang³, S. C. Mukhopadhyay⁴, A. S. Davidson⁵ and G. Liu⁶, Interdigital Sensing System for Kidney Health Monitoring, in the book Interdigital Sensors Progress over the Last Two Decades, Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation, edited by Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Boby George, Joyanta Kumar Roy, Tarikul Islam, published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Gewerbesstrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland, ISBN 978-3-030-62683-9 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-030-62684-6 (eBook), pp 267-309, 2021, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-62684-6_11

13) IoT for Smart Homes

Details: Anindya Nag^1*, Eshrat E. Alahi¹, Nasrin Afsarimanesh¹, Sumedha Prabhu¹ and Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay¹, IoT for smart homes, in the book Sensors in the Age of the Internet of Things Technologies and Applications, The Institution of Engineering and Technology International Series on Sensors, edited by Octavian Adrian Postolache, Edward Sazonov and Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, published by The Institution of Engineering and Technology, London, United Kingdom, ISBN 978-1-78561-634-1 (hardback), ISBN 978-178561-635-8 (PDF), pp 171-199, 2019, doi: 10.1049/PBCE122E_ch7