Ankur Singh, Ph.D.
Woodruff Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University School of Medicine
Office: 1306, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences (IBB)
Georgia Institute of Technology
315 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0363
Phone: 404.894.5150
email: ankur.singh@gatech.edu
Twitter: @Dr_ASingh
Education and Professional Training:
- 2010-2013 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering (Stem Cell Mechanobiology and Cell-Matrix Interactions), Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2006-2010 Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
- 2004-2006 M.Tech. Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay
- 2000-2004 Kumaon University, India
Professional Experience:
- 2020 – Present Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2019-2020 Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
- 2013-2019 Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
Ankur Singh is a Woodruff Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor of George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Before Georgia Tech, he was an Associate Professor at Cornell University, where he served on the Center for Immunology’s Executive Council and Cornell’s academic integration advisory council. He was the Associate Director of Cornell’s NIH Immunoengineering training grant. His laboratory develops immune organoids and enabling technologies to understand healthy and diseased immune cells and translate therapeutics. He has received funding from the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, Wellcome Leap HOPE, Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and Lymphoma and Leukemia Society. He has published >60 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Methods, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Protocols, PNAS, Blood, Advanced Functional Materials, and Advanced Materials. He has written multiple editorials for Science Translational Medicine. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER, Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award, CMBE Young Innovator Award, CMBE Rising Star Award, 3M Faculty Award, DoD Career award, Cornell’s Teaching Excellence Award, and Cornell’s Research Excellence Award. His immune organoids were identified among the Top 100 Discoveries of 2015 by Discover Magazine. He is the Founder and past-Chair of the Immune Engineering SIG at the Society for Biomaterials and Controlled Release Society. He serves on the editorial board of Biomaterials, Advanced NanoBiomed Research, Cellular and Molecular bioengineering, Scientific Reports, and J of Immunology and Regenerative Medicine journals.
- 2021 Woodruff Faculty Fellow
- 2019 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
- 2018 Cornell Research Excellence Award
- 2018 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
- 2018 Associate Scientific Advisor for Science Translational Medicine
- 2017 John Swanson ’61 ME in honor of his mother, Dorothy G. Swanson Teaching Excellence Award – The highest award for teaching at Cornell Engineering
- 2017 Young Investigator Award – Society for Biomaterials
- 2017 Department of Defense CDMRP Career Development Award
- 2017 Invited to the 2017 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (EU-US FOE)
- 2017 Award for Outstanding Contribution as Symposium Faculty by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai (Prostate Cancer and World Congress)
- 2016 National Science Foundation CAREER Award (DMR: BMAT)
- 2016 2015 Biomaterials Outstanding Paper Award by Elsevier
- 2016 Keynote Speaker, McMaster University’s 3rd Annual Perey Symposium
- 2016 Highlighted in Discover Magazine – 100 Top Stories of 2015
- 2014 Young Innovator Award – Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
- 2014 Rising Star Award, Biomedical Engineering Society Cellular & Molecular Engineering (CMBE)
- 2010 General Dynamics Faculty Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin
- 2009 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Outstanding Graduate Research Award, BMES Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2009 Professional Development Award by Office of The Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
- 2008 STAR Award, Society for Biomaterials, Atlanta, Georgia
- 2008 Professional Development Award by Office of The Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
- 2004 MHRD-GATE Scholarship for outstanding achievements in academics by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India
- 2004 All India rank 13 in Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) with a score of 99.73 percentile, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi