Sumita Pennathur, Founder/CEO of LAXMI & UCSB Professor of Engineering

Charting Her Course

English - December 12, 2019 08:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
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Sumita Pennathur is the founder and CEO of LAXMI Therapeutics and a mechanical engineering professor at UC Santa Barbara.

Sumita has two degrees in aerospace engineering from MIT and a mechanical engineering PhD from Stanford. Some of her accomplishments include creating an improved breastpumping device, as well as developing groundbreaking research for type 1 diabetes.

Listen as she talks about finding confidence with her identity, her experiences as a woman in science and engineering, and finding motivation from motherhood.

Please enjoy this talk with Sumita Pennathur.