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SBIR/STTR Program Director
National Science Foundation
Rajesh Mehta joined National Science Foundation in 2012 after a 26-year career in R&D at Kodak in Rochester, NY. He has served as Program Director for Advanced Manufacturing & Nanotechnology, and Education Technologies & Applications portfolios in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program in the past and is currently serving as Program Director for Sustainable Environmental Engineering portfolio. He has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT-Bombay, M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Penn State, a post-doctoral fellowship at Imperial College, London, and a Masters of Product Development from RIT.