Dr. Rohit Bhargava
Director
Chemistry
Agilent
Japan
Biography
Dr. Bhargava is widely recognized for his pioneering role on the development of infrared spectroscopic imaging. His work has included the development of novel theory and modeling of infrared imaging and its use for spectral analysis, the development of instrumentation and of computational methods to extract high-fidelity information to enable challenging studies to be conducted. His work has focused on the applications of spectroscopic imaging to biomedical sciences, especially on cancer biology and clinical applications by research case studies. Instruments developed in his laboratory have been used to provide new means to characterize and define cancer using chemical imaging.
Research Interest
Founder Professor of Engineering and Chemistry | Director, Cancer Center at Illinois Depts. of Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Sciences, Mechanical Science & Engineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL