Rohit Bhargava received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 2000 and undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in 1996. He is an assistant professor in the UIUC Department of Bioengineering and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Bioimaging Science and Technology group. His fields of professional interest are infrared spectroscopic imaging, cancer pathology, probes for molecular imaging, polymer structure and numerical methods for image processing.
Honors: Best Manuscript, Young Vibrational Spectroscopists, Vibrational Spectroscopy (2004), Meggers Award, Society for Applied Spectroscopy (1999 and 2002), Kirkbright Bursary Award, Association of British Spectroscopists (2001), Sigma Pi Epsilon Honor Society, Society of Plastics Engineers (2000), Graduate Spectroscopist (2000) and Maron Award, Case Western Reserve University (1998), IIT Undergraduate Research Award (1994) and National Science Talent Search Scholar (1989-1996).