A little information about my achievements and scientific contributions

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A few awards I received:

The Best Oral Prsentation Award

Awarded to the outstanding presenter from among 10+ oral presentations at CSB Research Day, University of Toronto, Canada

The Best Poster Presentation Award

Awarded to the outstanding presenter from among 75+ poster presentations at the Canadian Fly Conference

Biophysical Society of Canada Travel Award

Selected based on novelty of work presented at the BPS annual meeting, USA.

The Connaught International Scholarship

Merit based scholarship for funding my PhD (Aug 2016-Present)by University of Toronto, Canada

U.K. Commonwealth Scholarship

After highly competitive merit-based shortlisting and undergoing a rigorous interview, I received the Commonwealth scholarship 2016 tenable at Imperial College London, U.K to perform my Ph.D. research. As prestigious as it is, the project for which I was selected was also very interesting in collaboration with J&J. However, I chose UofT for my Ph.D. with Connaught Scholarship. It was a really tough choice!

IITB Research Internship Award 2016

Selected on the basis of academic records and technical interview. Received scholarship to conduct my masters research (Dec 2015)

EMBO|EMBL Travel grant (Oct 2015)

Received this prestigious grant to attend and present my Masters research at EMBO | EMBL Symposium on “Biological Oscillators: Design, Mechanism, Function”, Germany, 12 Nov – 14 Nov 2015

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Fellowship (Jul 2014 – Jul 2016)

Selected on the basis of academic records and technical interview. Received scholarship to conduct my masters research (Dec 2015)

TCS Best Team Award

We got this award for effective coordination as a team for timely completion of a major Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) Project from among many teams that were working on the project.

TCS On the Spot Award (Oct 2012)

I proactively developed a process improvement tool to increase the efficiency of my team's work for the LBG project. This was a bonus award as a token of appreciation for this significant contribution.

TCS On the Spot Award (Mar-2012)

I received this 'On the Spot Award'as a token of appreciation for my volunteary contributions in TCS Maitree group’s social service initiatives.

TCS Service and Commitment Award (2014)

I recieved this bonus award in recognition of dedicated service to TCS for 3+ years.

Sir Syed Emerging Scholar Award (SSESA)(2011-2012)

A merit based scholarship awarded to academically outstanding students, awarded by the Aligarh Alumni Association of New England. Only 15 – 20 applications are selected from several hundred applications.

Publications

During Graduate Studies

  • Sharma, M., Jiang, T., Jiang, Z. C., Moguel-Lehmer, C.E, & Harris, T. (2021). "Emergence of a smooth interface from growth of a dendritic network against a mechanosensitive contractile material". (Under Revision for Elife)
  • Sharma, Medha, and Tony Harris.(2019) "The Physical Bases of Forming a Smooth Boundary between an Expanding Arp 2/3 Actin Network and a Contractile Actomyosin Network." Biophysical Journal 116.3 (2019): 251a-252a.
  • M. Sharma, J. M. Nair and M. M. Inamdar.(2016) "Auto-regulation of cell morphology during cell migration: Exploration using computational modeling," 2016 IEEE 1st International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES), Delhi, 2016, pp. 1-6.
  • Medha Sharma, Mandar M Inamdar (2015). "Oscillations in cell-cell adhesion dictate the Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) dynamics", EMBL Symposium on Biological Oscillators: Design, Mechanism, Function. Page: 101

    Self Started Projects

  • Sharma, Medha. (2016) "Extracting cell and fibre orientation from microscopic images: computational methods and tools." CURRENT SCIENCE 111.12 (2016): 1936.
  • Medha Sharma, Abhay Mittal (2013). EEG Based BCI System: Importance, Challenges and Techniques, Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Human Computer Interactions (ICHCI’13), page: 121.
  • Sandeep Kumar, Medha Sharma (2012). BCI: Next Generation for HCI, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Volume 2, Issue 3.
  • Sandeep Kumar, Medha Sharma (2012). Convergence of Artificial Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, Neural Network and Evolutionary Computing, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Volume 2, Issue 3

    • Talks and Poster Presentations

    During PhD

  • Medha Sharma and Tony Harris,""Emergence of a smooth interface from growth of a dendritic network against a mechanosensitive contractile material"", at 62nd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, March 23 – April 1 2021, (Platform Speaker: Medha Sharma)
  • Medha Sharma and Tony Harris, ‘Emergence of a smooth interface from the growth of dendritic network against a mechanosensitive contractile network’ at Fly Group Meeting, University of Toronto, Toronto, Nov 12, 2020 (Talk by Medha Sharma)
  • Medha Sharma and Tony Harris, ‘The physical bases of forming a smooth boundary between an expanding arp 2/3 actin network and a contractile actomyosin network’ at Canadian Drosophila Research Conference (CANFLY) - 2019, Toronto, June 9-13, 2019 (Abstract + Poster)
  • Medha Sharma and Tony Harris, ‘The physical bases of forming a smooth boundary between an expanding arp 2/3 actin network and a contractile actomyosin network’ at CSB Research Day, University of Toronto, Toronto, May 2019 (Talk by: Medha Sharma)
  • Medha Sharma and Tony Harris, ‘The physical bases of forming a smooth boundary between an expanding arp 2/3 actin network and a contractile actomyosin network’ at Chemical Biophysics Symposium, University of Toronto, Toronto, May 3-5, 2019 (Talk by: Medha Sharma)
  • Medha Sharma and Tony Harris, ‘The physical bases of forming a smooth boundary between an expanding arp 2/3 actin network and a contractile actomyosin network’ at Biophysical Society 63rd Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, March 2-6, 2019 (Abstract + Poster)
  • Medha Sharma and Tony Harris, ‘The physical bases of forming a smooth boundary between an expanding arp 2/3 actin network and a contractile actomyosin network’ at Fly Group Meeting, University of Toronto, Toronto, Nov 29, 2019 (Talk by: Medha Sharma)
  • Medha Sharma and Tony Harris,'Mathematical modeling of cytoskeletal pattern formation during early development of Drosophila embryos' at Morphogensis Workshop, University of Toronto, May 31, 2018 (Talk by: Medha Sharma)
  • Medha Sharma and Tony Harris,'Mechanobiology of cytoskeletal pattern formation in syncytial Drosophila embryos' at Chemo Bio Physics Symposium (CBP-2018), University of Toronto, May4- 6, 2018 (Poster by: Medha Sharma)
  • Medha Sharma and Tony Harris,'Mechanobiology of cytoskeletal pattern formation in syncytial Drosophila embryos' at'Mini-Course on Modeling Cellular Systems' at Fields Institute, University of Toronto, April 27, 2018 (Talk by : Medha Sharma)
  • Medha Sharma and Tony Harris,'Mathematical modeling of the assembly and maintenance of non-contractile Actomyosin rings in Drosophila embryos' at PhD and Postdoc Seminar Series at Ramsay Wright Zoological Laboratories, University of Toronto. Oct 27, 2017.(Talk by : Medha Sharma)
  • Medha Sharma and Tony Harris, 'Mathematical modeling of the assembly and maintenance of non-contractile Actomyosin rings in Drosophila embryos', Cytoskeletal Dynamics Across Scales and Dimensions, GRC on Motile and Contractile Systems July 30 - August 4, 2017, New London, New Hampshire, U.S.A.(Poster by: Medha Sharma)

    Before PhD

  • Sharma, Medha, Mandar M Inamdar (2016), "Computational Modeling of Cellular Structure During Cell Migration", IRCC internship final presentations IITB, (Poster)
  • Sharma, Medha, Jayalekshmi M. Nair, and Mandar M. Inamdar. (2016) "Auto-regulation of cell morphology during cell migration: Exploration using computational modeling." Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES), IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, New Delhi 2016.(Paper + Talk)
  • Medha Sharma, Mandar M Inamdar (2015). Oscillations in cell-cell adhesion dictate the Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) dynamics, EMBL Symposium on Biological Oscillators: Design, Mechanism, Function. Page: 101 (Abstract + Poster)
  • Medha Sharma, Abhay Mittal (2013). EEG Based BCI System: Importance, Challenges and Techniques, Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Human Computer Interactions (ICHCI’13), page: 121.
  • Sandeep Kumar, Medha Sharma (2012). BCI: Next Generation for HCI, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Volume 2, Issue 3.
  • Sandeep Kumar, Medha Sharma (2012). Convergence of Artificial Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, Neural Network and Evolutionary Computing, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Volume 2, Issue 3