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Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada is an Associate Professor in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Shaama received her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. Before joining USC in Fall 2017, she worked as a software developer at Q-Chem, a quantum chemistry package, and served as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. Her research focuses on developing catalysts and photocatalysts that meet energy-efficiency and sustainability goals. Her group utilizes 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 eager to make quantum chemical predictions more reliable and is working on developing algorithms inspired by signal processing to make otherwise prohibitively complex accurate kinetics theories manageable for routine studies.
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