Diwakar Shukla is among the cohort of seven scientists drawn from seven different education institutions across United State that constitute the first class of the Pivot Fellowship.
Pivot is a programme founded in 2022 and it is coordinated by the Simon Foundation. It is design to support researchers in the education institution who move field to accelerate the process and to remove the hindrances associated with it. The programme target the scientists in the area of engineering, data science, computer science, natural sciences and mathematics.
Just like any other Pivot Fellows, Associate Professor Diwakar Shukla is eligible to salary, travel, research and professional development funding during the period of fellowship which is just one year. He is also eligible to apply for a research award in new field worth $1.5million for a period of three (3) years.
Diwakar research interest focus on the use of physics base model and technique to make us understand biological processes.
A publication by the Simon Foundation stated that Diwakar, an affiliate faculty member in the Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, Plant Biology and Bioengineering will shift from computational chemistry to experimental plant biology.
The publication stated further Associate Professor Diwakar Shukla:
Will bring the disciplines of computational chemistry and experimental plant biology under one roof to enable rapid cycles of design and innovation in plant protein engineering. With mentoring from Stephen Long of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he will develop a framework for integrating ideas from machine learning to guided protein engineering, experimental plant biology and design validation in living plant tissues. The training phase’s overall goal is to demonstrate these synergistic approaches on a problem of high agricultural significance.
Diwakar Shukla hold a B. Tech and M. Tech in Chemic Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. He also hold a MS and PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from Massachusett Institute of Technology (MIT), United States.
His mentor during the fellowship, Stephen Long of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will earn $50,000.
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