Mazhar Sher

Education

Ph.D. – Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
M.S. – University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar-Pakistan.
B.S. - University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar-Pakistan.

Academic Interests

• Development of Biosensors and Microfluidic Devices for Various Agricultural and Biological Applications
• Large Field-Of-View Imaging Systems
• Agricultural Instrumentation and Data Acquisition Systems
• Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture
• Cyber security for Agricultural IOTs
• Machine Learning
• Point-Of-Care Disease Diagnostics

Academic Responsibilities

ABE 463 Instrumentation for Agricultural and Biological Systems
ABE 463L Instrumentation for Agricultural and Biological Systems Lab
ABE 763 Instrumentation for Agricultural and Biological Systems
ABE 763L Instrumentation for Agricultural and Biological Systems Lab

Awards and Honors

• 2019: Travel Grant to present research findings at the 2019 IEEE Healthcare Innovations Point-of-Care Technologies Conference Bethesda, MD, USA by Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA), Florida Atlantic University.
• 2019: Travel Grant by the United States National Science Foundation Nano-Biosensing Program to present research findings at the Biosensors 2019 conference in Miami, Florida
• 2019: Outstanding Ph.D. Poster Award, Florida Atlantic University-1st Prize.
• 2018: Thesis and Dissertation Scholarship Award, Florida Atlantic University.
• 2018: Graduate and Professional Student Association 9th Annual Research Day Best Poster Award-1st Prize.
• 2018: Travel Grant to present research findings at the 255th American Chemical Society National Meeting
• 2017: 3-Minutes Research Competition for Graduate Students, 2nd Prize.
• 2017: Travel Grant to attend the Micro Device Fabrication and Material Analysis workshop held at Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA by GPSA, FAU.

Professional Memberships

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)
International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA)

Work Experience

2022 – Present: Assistant Professor : Biosensor Engineer, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at South Dakota State University, Brookings, USA.
2020-2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
2016–2020: Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
2009–2015 Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar- Pakistan

Creative Activities

Publications:
1) Robert D. Fennel, Mazhar Sher, and W. Asghar, Development of a Microfluidic Device for CD4+ T Cell Isolation
and Automated Enumeration from Whole Blood, Biosensors 12 (1), 12, 2022
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/12/1/12
2) Hamed Hosseinian, Samira Hosseini, Sergio O. Martinez-Chapa, and Mazhar Sher, A Meta-Analysis of Wearable Contact Lenses for Medical Applications: Role of Electrospun Fiber for Drug Delivery, Polymers, 14(1), 185, 2022.
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/14/1/185
3) Mazhar Sher, A.Faheem, W.Asghar, S.Cinti, Nano-Engineered Screen-Printed Electrodes: A dynamic tool for detection of Viruses, TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 116374,2021
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165993621001977?via=ihub#!
4) Mazhar Sher, B.Coleman, M.Caputi, W.Ashar, Development of a Point-of-Care Assay for HIV-1 Viral Load Using Higher Refractive Index Antibody-Coated Microbeads, Sensor 21 (5),1819, 2021
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/5/1819
5) Mazhar Sher, W. Asghar, Development of a multiplex fully automated assay for rapid quantification of CD4+ T cells from whole blood, Biosensors and Bioelectronics (2019).
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095656631930569X?via%3Dihub
6) Mazhar Sher, R. Zhuang, U. Demirci, and W. Asghar, "Paper-based analytical devices for clinical diagnosis: recent advances in the fabrication techniques and sensing mechanisms," Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics, vol. 17, pp. 351-366, 2017.
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14737159.2017.1285228
7) W. Asghar, Mazhar Sher, N. S. Khan, J. M. Vyas, and U. Demirci, "Microfluidic Chip for Detection of Fungal Infections," ACS omega, vol. 4, pp. 7474-7481, 2019.
Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsomega.9b00499
8) S.Ilyas, Mazhar Sher, E.Du, and W. Asghar, " Smartphone-based Sickle Cell Disease Detection and
Monitoring for Point-of-Care Settings” Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 165,2020.
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0956566320304115
9) Robert D. Fennel, Mazhar Sher, and W. Asghar, " Design, development, and performance comparison of
wide-field lensless and lens-based optical systems for point-of-care biological applications," Laser and optics in
Engineering, vol. 137, p. 106326, 2020.
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0143816620311544
10) M. A. Kabir, H. Zilouchian, Mazhar Sher, and W. Asghar, "Development of a Flow-Free Automated Colorimetric Detection Assay Integrated with Smartphone for Zika NS1," Diagnostics, vol. 10, p. 42, 2020.
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/10/1/42
11) C. Coarsey, B. Coleman, M. A. Kabir, Mazhar Sher, and W. Asghar, "Development of a flow-free magnetic actuation platform for an automated microfluidic ELISA," RSC Advances, vol. 9, pp. 8159-8168, 2019.
Link: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/ra/c8ra07607c#!divAbstract
12) K. Rappa, J. Samargia, Mazhar Sher, J. S. Pino, H. F. Rodriguez, and W. Asghar, "Quantitative analysis of sperm rheotaxis using a microfluidic device," Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, vol. 22, p. 100, 2018.
Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10404-018-2117-6

Area(s) of Research

Development of electrochemical biosensors for real-time measurement of NPK in soil and water samples.
Development of smartphone-based imaging systems for agricultural applications.