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Dr. Roger Narayan is a Distinguished Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University. He is an author of over one hundred publications as well as several book chapters on the processing, characterization, and modeling of biomedical materials. He currently serves as an Editorial Board Member for several academic journals and is the Associate Editor of Applied Physics Reviews (AIP Publishing). Dr. Narayan has received several honors for his research activities, including the University of North Carolina Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine and the American Ceramic Society Richard M. Fulrath Award. He has been elected as a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, ASM International, AAAS, ASME, AIMBE, and the Materials Research Society.

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Trends in Wearable Electrochemical Sensors for Healthcare and Agricultural Applications

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Dr. Yugender Goud Kotagiri received his M.Sc. in chemistry with a specialization in modern methods of chemical analysis (MMCA) in 2011 from the Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana, India. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 2017 from the Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Warangal. He worked as an Erasmus Mundus Euphrates Ph.D. student in the BAE Laboratory, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France, from 2015 to 2017. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Diego and Johns Hopkins University, USA, from 2018 to 2022. Currently, he works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad. His current research interests are the development of wearable and portable biosensors for healthcare, agricultural, and security applications. He has published over 60 journals in reputable international and national journals. His name was featured in the “world’s top 2% scientists database” by Stanford University, USA, for the years 2021 and 2022 in the category of Analytical Chemistry and Energy.