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Bio: Bhuvana Srinivasan is an Associate Professor in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington. Prior to this appointment, she was an Associate Professor in the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech where she developed a program in computational plasma physics. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, she was a postdoc and a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. She is the director of the PLASMAWISE Laboratory (previously the Plasma Dynamics Computational Laboratory at Virginia Tech). The primary research areas in her group include plasma-material interactions in thrusters and fusion devices, instabilities in high-energy-density fusion and astrophysical plasmas, ionospheric plasma instabilities, and numerical algorithm development for fluid and kinetic models. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the 2017 Outstanding Assistant Professor award and the 2019 Faculty Fellow awarded by the Dean of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. She was appointed to the Endowed Crofton Faculty Fellowship in Engineering from 2021-2023. She is a member of the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee to the U.S. Department of Energy and serves on the Executive Committee for the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics. She is also active in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts as the past Chair of the DEI committee in the aerospace and ocean engineering department at Virginia Tech, as a member of the Committee on Women+ in Plasma Physics, and through her involvement with the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity at Virginia Tech.