Dr. Balijepalli is a Mechanical Engineer in the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He received his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2011. After completing a joint National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship between NIST and the National Institutes of Health, he joined NIST in 2014 as a staff member. At NIST, he develops new chip-scale sensing techniques to enable measurements of fundamental biophysical phenomenon at multiple scales ranging from biomolecular interactions to dynamics in cell and tissue mimics.