Prof. Ashwin Ramachandran joined the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in 2025. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University working with Prof. Zemer Gitai and Prof. Howard Stone, where he studied how bacteria interact with their complex mechanical environments in the context of infections. Ashwin received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics & Astronautics with a Ph.D. minor in Bioengineering from Stanford University in 2021 working with Prof. Juan Santiago, where he developed microscale technologies for water desalination and disease diagnostics applications. He received his B. Tech in Aerospace Engineering with Minor degrees in Mathematics and Physics from IIT Bombay in 2015. He is a recipient of the President of India Gold Medal and Institute Silver Medal from IIT Bombay, the Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellowship, and the CHEMINAS Young Researcher Award.