Dr. Ashwin Lal, is the Founder-CEO of Shilps Sciences. He did his M.Sc. Physics (Integrated) from IIT Kanpur, PhD from EPFL (Switzerland) and postdoc from McGill University (Canada). He has 20 years of experience in building high tech scientific instruments. He has worked and guided projects on microfluidics, scanning probe microscopes, nano-positioning systems, MEMS, controls and cryogenics. Dr. Lal was the CTO and co-founder of i2n Technologies, a Bangalore based nanotechnology company, that makes indigenous scanning probe microscopes. Earlier he has also worked at Applied Materials (Singapore) and Cranes Software (Bangalore). At Shilps Sciences, Dr. Lal leads the development of novel microfluidics for single cell analysis. His team is also building an Atomic Force Microscope for life science applications.