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Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada is an Associate Professor in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California. She received her Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining USC in Fall 2017, she worked as a software developer on the Q-Chem quantum chemistry package and held a postdoctoral researcher position at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the development of catalysts and photocatalysts aimed at meeting energy efficiency and sustainability goals. Her group employs quantum chemistry to identify active, selective, and stable catalytic materials for the efficient valorization of C-H bonds and the green conversion of anthropogenic carbon dioxide. Shaama is dedicated to making quantum chemical predictions more reliable through the development of algorithms inspired by signal processing, which make accurate kinetic theories tractable for routine studies.
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