Shruthi Ravichandran

Hi! I'm Shruthi, a second-year PhD student at UC Berkeley, where I work with Professors Miki Lustig in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Sandya Subramanian in Computational Precision Health. I received my S.B. in EECS and B.S.A.D. in Art and Design from MIT in 2025, where I worked with Professor Loza Tadesse and Professor Giovanni Traverso at MIT MechE. In my free time, you can find me in nature, making music, and building things! Click through the tabs to see some projects I've worked on and please feel free to contact me at shruthi (at) berkeley (dot) edu!

Projects

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Cloud Chair

Infinite Illuminance

Off Track

Mine Sweeper

Ailara

a tree walk through mit's campus

Research

I'm passionate about using engineering to create healthcare solutions that are accessible to all. I currently work with Profs. Miki Lustig and Sandya Subramanian at UC Berkeley. In the past, I have been fortunate to work with Profs. Loza Tadesse and Giovanni Traverso at MIT, Prof. Stathis Karathanasis at Case Western Reserve University, and Prof. Jean-Pierre Raskin at UCLouvain.

Published

HealthReflect: Design of a Bathroom Smart Mirror to Capture Comprehensive Consumer Health Data Trends

Jorge Farfan, Shruthi Ravichandran, Maryam Shamsie, C Giovanni Traverso, Saurin Jani, Nevan C Hanumara

2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 1-7 (July 2025)

Immunostimulatory silica nanoparticle boosts innate immunity in brain tumors

Bielecki PA, Lorkowski ME, Becicka WM, Atukorale PU, Moon TJ, Zhang Y, Wiese M, Covarrubias G, Ravichandran S, Karathanasis E.

Nanoscale Horizons, 6(2):156-167 (Feb 2021)

Theses & Reports

The Image of the Tunnels: Mapping Perception of the MIT Underground

Shruthi Ravichandran

Bachelor's Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (May 2025)

Preprints

Rapid residual bead quantification for cell therapy manufacturing using Raman spectroscopy

Marissa Morales, Shruthi Ravichandran, Seleem Badawy, Loza F Tadesse

bioRxiv (March 2026)

Nucleic acid turnover and lipid remodeling distinguish T cell activation and exhaustion states via label-free Raman spectroscopy

Marissa Morales, Srilakshmi Premachandran, Shruthi Ravichandran, Loza F Tadesse

bioRxiv (2026)

Recovering the spatiotemporal dynamics of stomach muscle coupling during digestion using wearable high-resolution electrogastrography

Joshua Everts, Jeshwanth Mohan, Shruthi Ravichandran, Belinda Chen, Sandya Subramanian

Preprint

Class Projects

Cavity Resonator Glucose Sensor

Mobile Stretcher

Mobile Health Station