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Cornell University

Helbling Research Group

aquatic science and technology

PhD Defense!

Congratulations Nayantara on an excellent PhD dissertation and defense!

Nayantara developed machine learning-based forensics tools to enable source tracking of PFASs in the environment. The motivating question for her research was, “Whose PFAS is it anyway?!” The tools that Nayantara developed during her PhD enable source differentiation based on characterization of a relatively small number of PFASs and non-PFAS constituents in environmental samples. Stay tuned for more details on the development of those tools and ways they can be applied to your own research. Congratulations, again!