News
- Jun 2026Received the James K. Ferrell Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate Award from the NC State Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Announcement
- Jul 2026First paper from my postdoc at UC Santa Cruz: Virtual Brain Organoids, under review at Trends Open (Cell Press).
- May 2026From Sensor to Solution: Grounded LLM Interfaces for Equitable, Smartphone-Based Pathogen Surveillance published in Frontiers in Sensors. DOI
- Mar 2026Started as a postdoctoral scholar at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, working on AI and high-performance computing for genomics.
- Jan 2026Contributed to Humanity's Last Exam, a 2,500-question expert benchmark for AI, published in Nature. DOI
- 2026Attomolar HIV-1 detection with label-free RCA-rCRISPR on a smartphone accepted for publication.
- 2025Liquid Metal-Based Biosensors named a Top Viewed Article in Advanced Functional Materials.
- Nov 2025Presented the AI-powered colorimetric sensing work at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Boston.
- Aug 2025Presented plant volatile sensing at the ACS Fall Meeting in Washington, DC.
- Apr 2025Won 1st place at the NC State CALS Graduate Research Showcase.
In the news
Coverage of the research and the people doing it.
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Meet the 2025 James K. Ferrell Awardees Winner of the department's James K. Ferrell Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate Award, which recognizes scholarship alongside teaching and mentorship. Sobhana Sripada received honorable mention. -
Changing the Future of Healthcare, One Genome at a Time Profile on biosensors and AI-enabled tools for detecting disease in humans and plants. -
Preparing for a Future That Matters Profile on AI-powered biosensors, awards, and undergraduate mentoring. Also published by NC State Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative. -
A Meaningful Impact On the SAPLINGS AI in Ag award and mentoring undergraduates in plant disease sensing. -
Newest Trolinder Award Winners Named Named a 2024 to 2025 Norma L. Trolinder Graduate Student Endowment awardee.
Selected moments
Top Viewed Article 2025, Advanced Functional Materials, for Liquid Metal-Based Biosensors: Fundamentals and Applications.
PhD defense with the committee. Advancing Biosensors through Computational Modeling, AI, and CRISPR, NC State, 2025.
1st Place, CALS Graduate Research Showcase, NC State, April 2025.
AIChE Annual Meeting, Boston, November 2025.
ACS Fall Meeting, Washington DC, August 2025. Plant volatiles as chemical signals.
Plant Science Symposium, University of Florida, January 2025.
CBE PhD Student Research Seminar, NC State, March 2025.
AIChE Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 2024.
Invited panelist, Teaching Data Science to Students and Teachers, AIChE 2024.
Top Reviewer Award, Digital Chemical Engineering, Elsevier and IChemE, 2024.
BASF Two-Minute Pitch, Research Triangle Park, 2023.
3rd Place, Bayer Two-Minute Pitch, N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative, November 2024.
Bayer NextGen Innovation Pitch.
Featured in Ready for an AI Future, NC State Engineering magazine.