McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Dr. Pradhan did his Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in Condensed Matter Physics. Before joining Northwestern, he was a post-doctoral researcher at University of California - Los Angeles, CA and a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. His current research focuses mainly in the area of experimental biophotonics/nano-biophotonics.