Qualification:
Ph.D. in Chemistry; University of Chicago
Communication style
Experienced mentor, will speak slow in easy English, and has interacted with ESL researchers.
- Instructor profile
Sachin is an experienced academic writing and publishing professional. He conducted research at the renowned University of Chicago, USA. Sachin is a highly experienced scientific editor and is currently working as Senior Language Analyst at Crimson Interactive. He has been instrumental in designing, developing, testing, and optimizing a journal selection tool for researchers. Sachin is available for consultation sessions on topics related to academic writing and publishing.
Professional Experience
Crimson Interactive
- Senior Language Analyst, Technology; May 2014–Present
- Analyzed industry requirements to suggest new products to the business team
- Provided subject matter inputs to the software development team
- Tested the products and provided feedback to the software development team
- Used NLP technologies, expert systems, and machine learning tools to develop grammar correction tools
- Designed, developed, tested, and optimized a journal selection tool.
- Technical Expert, Editorial Research and Consultation; December 2010–May 2014
- Founded a new team, Editorial Research and Consultation, to improve the quality of freelance editor work. This team handles the following responsibilities:
- Setting quality criteria and test samples for the hiring of freelance editors
- Checking editing quality of freelance editors and providing feedback
- Providing inputs to the editing and project management teams
- Quality Expert, Editorial division; December 2008–December 2010
- Mentored freelance and in-house editors
- Made decisions on hiring freelance editors, including setting the test samples, evaluating the sample, and providing feedback
- Successfully hired more than 400 freelance editors
- Provided feedback to the freelance editors
- Set quality goals for the freelance and in-house editing teams
- Edited manuscripts of various subjects
- Editor, Editorial division; May 2007–December 2008
- Edited over 2000 manuscripts on various subjects
Technical and Research Experience
- Proficient in several SPM techniques including atomic force microscopy and its variants (e.g., conducting probe microscopy and electric force microscopy), scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy
- Maintained the group AFM equipment and handled training of new students
- Conducted AFM studies on polymers, proteins, colloidal nanoparticles, and metal nanostructures
- UV-VIS and IR spectroscopy of conducting polymers, and nanogold and nanosilver colloids
- Optical confocal microscopy setup and integration with AFM
- Ultrafast Ti-Sapphire laser setup and maintenance
- Vacuum deposition of thin films (e-beam and thermal deposition)
- Langmuir-Blodgett film preparation
- Photolithography, electron beam lithography, and SPM-based lithography to make nanostructures
Education
- University of Chicago, PhD; Chicago, IL: Chemistry; July 2006: Thesis on “Understanding Structure-Function Relationship in Conducting Polymers and Plasmonic Materials.” The thesis involved experimental and computational study of conducting polymers and plasmonic bandgap materials.
- University of Chicago, MS; Chicago, IL Chemistry; June 1999
- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), MSc (Integrated); Mumbai, India Chemistry; June 1997
Publication
- Ultrafast Dephasing of Photoexcited Polarons in Primary Doped Polyaniline: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106(50):12866-12873