Education

• B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, 2009-13 (formerly known as Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad)
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University
• Ph.D in Mechanial Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2015-20 (expected)

Coursework Highlights

• Honors Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism • Honors Advanced Electricity and Magnetism • Honors Quantum Mechanics 2 • Statistical Mechanics (on-going) • Molecular Simulation of Materials • Numerical and Statistical Methods • Intermediate Numerical Methods • Intermediate Fluid Mechanics • Intermediate Heat Transfer • Solid State Microelectronics Laboratory • Nanotechnology and Biomimetics • Electrochemistry • Introduction to Microfluidics and Nanofluidics • Mechanics of Biomolecular Systems • Electrical Technology • Applied Electrical Engineering • Mechanical Vibrations • Measurements and Control

Supplementary Online Coursework: • Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers (Online Course) • Introduction to Complex Analysis (Online Course) • Astrophysics (Online Course 1, Online Course 2) • Semiconductor Physics (on-going) • Data-driven Astronomy (on-going) • Quantum Optics (on-going)

Work experience

• Summer 2020: Graduate Research Associate
  • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • The Ohio State University
  • Supervisor: Dr. Shaurya Prakash
• Spring 2020: Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • Course: Introduction to Measurements and Data Analysis in Mechanical Engineering
  • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • The Ohio State University
  • Supervisor: Dr. Vishnu Sundaresan, Dr. Matthew Detrick
  • Duties: Instructed four lab sections per week, demonstrated experiments, taught data collection and analysis using LabVIEW and MATLAB
• Spring 2016 - Fall 2019: Graduate Research Associate
  • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • The Ohio State University
  • Supervisor: Dr. Shaurya Prakash
• Fall 2013 - Spring 2015: Assistant Manager
  • Research and Development, Enginer Testing Department
  • Hero MotoCorp Ltd., India

Skills

• 4 years’ clean room experience in micro- and nanofabrication processes for microfluidic and nanofluidic applications.
• Trained on semiconductor device fabrication including photolithography, oxidation, diffusion, chemical processes, reactive ion etching, and metallization.
• 3 years’ experience in biosafety level 2 (BSL-2) lab for microbiology research.
• Imaging and spectroscopy experience: Transmission Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy, Brightfield/Darkfield/Phase-contrast Microscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Microscopy.
• Software: LabVIEW, MATLAB, COMSOL Multiphysics, Python, AutoCAD, CATIA, MS Office.

First-author Journal Publications

• V. Lochab, A. Yee, M. Yoda, A. T. Conlisk., S. Prakash. Ultrastructure imaging of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lawn biofilms and eradication of the tobramycin-resistant variants under in vitro electroceutical treatment. Scientific Reports 10, 9879 (2020).
• V. Lochab, T. H. Jones, E. Alkandry, J. D. West, M. Abdel-Rahman, V. V. Subramaniam, and S. Prakash. Evaluation of electrical properties of ex vivo human hepatic tissue with metastatic colorectal cancer. Physiological Measurement, 2020 (In press).
• V. Lochab, A. Yee, M. Yoda, A. T. Conlisk., S. Prakash. Dynamics of colloidal particles in microchannels under combined pressure and electric potential gradients. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (2019) 23: 134.
• D.H. Dusane, V. Lochab., T. Jones, C.W. Peters, D. Sindeldecker, A. Das, S. Roy, C. K. Sen, V. V. Subramaniam, D.J. Wozniak, and S. Prakash, P. Stoodley. Electroceutical treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. Scientific reports (2019), 9(1). Co-first author.
• V. Lochab and S. Prakash. Electrophoresis-induced lateral migration of colloidal particles in combined Poiseuille and electrokinetic flows. Projected submission by August 2020.
• V. Lochab and S. Prakash. Self-assembly of colloidal particles into high-aspect ratio structures on nanoporous substrates. Projected submission by August/September 2020.

Other Publications in Journals and Conference Proceedings

• S. Roy, S. Prakash, S. S. Mathew-Steiner, P. D. Ghatak, V. Lochab, T. H. Jones, P. M. Sundaram, G. M. Gordillo, V. V. Subramaniam. C. K. Sen, Disposable patterned electroceutical dressing (ped-10) is safe for treatment of open clinical chronic wounds. Advances in Wound Care (2019), 8 (4).
• R. Heald, M. Bennett, V.V. Subramaniam, D. Dusane, V. Lochab, P. M. Sundaram, S. Salyer, J. D. West, P. Stoodley, and S. Prakash. Printed electroceutical dressings for the inhibition of biofilms and treatment of chronic wounds. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (2020).
• V. Lochab, A. Yee, Y. Li, M. Yoda, A. T. Conlisk, and S. Prakash. Directed self-assembly of colloidal particles for high aspect ratio bands. Head Workshop 2018: A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop.
• V. Lochab, E. Alkandry, T.H. Jones, M. Abdel-Rahman, E. W. Martin Jr., C. R. Schmidt, S.R. Abdel-Misih, M. Bloomston, V.V. Subramaniam, and S. Prakash. µ-Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy for identifying spatial heterogeneity in tumor bearing hepatic tissue. The 21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, µTAS 2017.
• V. Lochab, T. H. Jones, D. H. Dusane, C. K. Sen, S. Roy, P. Stoodley, D. Wozniak, V. V. Subramaniam, and S. Prakash. Mechanistic determination of electroceutical bactericidal effects on Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. The 21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, µTAS 2017.
• K. Rangharajan, V. Lochab and S. Prakash. Desalting high salinity shale flowback water via high-flux nanofluidic evaporation-condensation. IEEE 30th International Conference on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Las Vegas, NV, 2017, pp. 60-63.
• C. Boone, V. Lochab, M. Fuest, and S. Prakash. Time-dependent gating in nanofluidic channels for active electric double layer modulation for ion transport control. Technical Digest of the Hilton Head Workshop 2016: A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop, Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Other Posters, Presentations and Conference Abstracts

• D. Dusane, V. Lochab, T. Jones, C. Sen, V. Subramaniam, D. Wozniak, S. Prakash, and P. Stoodley, Mechanism of killing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus biofilms by electroceutical wound dressing. Bacteria-Material Interactions 2017, 4th Stevens conference on Bacteria-Material interactions, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, June 14-15, 2017.
• D. Dusane, V. Lochab, T. Jones, S. Matthew, D. Wozniak, C. Sen, V. Subramaniam, S. Prakash, P. Stoodley, Unraveling the mechanism underlining killing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by silver patterned electroceutical dressing (PED). 10th Annual Translational to Clinical (T2C) Regenerative Medicine Wound Care Conference, Columbus, OH, USA, March 9-11, 2017.
• S. Prakash and V. Lochab, Colloidal particle migration within microchannels in combined Poiseuille and electrokinetic flows. 72nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2019.
• S. Prakash and V. Lochab, Electrohydrodynamic printing of pre-assembled colloidal particle structures. 71st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2018.
• M. Yoda, A. Yee, V. Lochab, S. Prakash, Colloidal band assembly in different microchannels. 70th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2017.