Shalu Suri

Shalu Suri is a Senior Academic Professional in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and serves as Co-Director of Engineering Workforce Development for the NSF-funded Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT) Engineering Research Center. She joined CMaT at Georgia Tech in 2020 as Associate Director and became the Co-Director in 2022.

Before joining Georgia Tech, Dr. Suri was a lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University, where she was instrumental in designing and teaching multiple undergraduate and graduate classes for which she received Cornell’s Teaching Excellence Award.

At CMaT, she spearheads multiple high-impact efforts across academic levels (K-12 through industry) towards curriculum development, professional education, and preparing the future cell manufacturing workforce. Her contributions have been recognized through multiple honors, including Georgia Tech’s 2024 Outstanding Professional Education Award for her contributions to the field of professional education and the 2023 and 2025 Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching CIOS Honor Roll. 

Dr. Suri also serves on the National Advisory Council of the NSF-InnovATEBIO Biotechnology Education Center. She earned her undergraduate degree from Kanpur University, an M.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India), and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, followed by postdoctoral training at Georgia Tech.