Shreyas Rangan completed his B. Tech. and M.Tech. in Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, followed by an M.Sc. in Genome Science and Technology from The University of British Columbia (UBC). He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at UBC's School of Biomedical Engineering, completing his thesis research focused on Raman spectroscopic analyses of cells for therapy in the laboratories of Prof. James Piret and Prof. Robin Turner.