Harini Narayanan
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Harini Narayanan is a leading researcher in bioprocess engineering, specializing in the acceleration and optimization of microbial production systems. Her work focuses on integrating high-throughput automation, miniaturized bioreactor technology, and advanced multivariate data analysis to streamline the development of industrial bioprocesses. A key contribution is her pioneering use of 48 parallel mini-bioreactor platforms, which enable sophisticated fed-batch and continuous cultivations at a microscale, dramatically reducing the time and cost of process development. Her most cited paper (2018, 28 citations) demonstrates this by optimizing endopolygalacturonase production in *Saccharomyces cerevisiae* using multivariate prediction. She further advanced the field by developing online multivariate monitoring methods for robotic cultivation systems (2020, 18 citations), allowing for real-time, data-driven decision-making during strain screening. By replacing traditional trial-and-error approaches with automated, high-information-density experiments, Narayanan’s work provides powerful tools for accelerating the scale-up from lab to production, making her a pivotal figure in modern bioprocess optimization.
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- 2Monitoring Parallel Robotic Cultivations with Online Multivariate Analysis18 citations · 2020