Shishir Chundawat is a professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University (New Brunswick) specializing in biomolecular engineering, with a focus on carbohydrate or glycan-centric research topics relevant to biologics, biofuels, and bioproducts biomanufacturing. He has a B.Tech. in Chemical Technology (Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai), Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (Michigan State University, East Lansing), and Post-Doc in Biochemistry of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes (University of Wisconsin, Madison).