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Hire Dr. Huda U.

United States

USD 95 /hr

PhD-Level Scientific Editor | Clear, Polished Manuscripts for Academic Publication

Profile Summary

I am a PhD-trained scientist and experienced scientific editor with a strong track record of publishing in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, including Science Advances. I have authored or co-authored 8 peer-reviewed publications, with multiple first-author manuscripts in reputable journals across engineering and life sciences. Through my research training, I have extensive experience writing, revising, and polishing manuscripts for journal submission, responding to reviewer comments, and improving clarity, flow, and logical structure without altering scientific content. I am particularly skilled at editing complex technical writing to ensure ideas are communicated clearly and effectively to broad academic audiences. I regularly support PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career scientists with manuscript editing, focusing on sentence-level clarity, organization, and journal-ready presentation. I also have experience working with international and ESL researchers, helping ensure their work is presented clearly and professionally while preserving their original voice. My goal is to help researchers submit confident, polished manuscripts that clearly reflect the strength of their science.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Computational Biology
• ☆ Microbiology
• ☆ Microbiome Research
• ☆ Microbiological Assays
• ☆ Bacteriology
• ☆ Gram-Negative Bacteria
• ☆ Gram-Positive Bacteria
• ☆ Chemical Engineering
• ☆ Drug Discovery
• ☆ High Throughput Screening (HTS)
• ☆ High Content Screening/Imaging

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Creative Writing

Research Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Algorithm Design-ML, Data Visualization

Product Development Formulation

Work Experience

Student

Carnegie Mellon University

- Present

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow

National Institute of Standards and Technology

January 2025 - Present

Education

PhD

Carnegie Mellon University

August 2020 - December 2025

Certifications

• Project Management

  Carnegie Mellon University

  September 2025 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Huda Usman, Mehdi Molaei, Stephen D. House, Martin F. Haase, Cindi L. Dennis, Tagbo H. R. Niepa (2025). Magnetically responsive nanocultures for direct microbial assessment in soil environments . Science Advances.

Cindi Dennis, Mehdi Molaei, Martin F. Haase, Tagbo H.R. Niepa, Stephen House, Huda Usman (2025). Magnetically Responsive Nanocultures for Direct Microbial Assessment in Soil Environments . Science Advances.

Sricharani Rao Balmuri, Sena Noaman, Huda Usman, Tagbo H. R. Niepa (2024). Altering the interfacial rheology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus with N-acetyl cysteine and cysteamine . Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.

Austin Lieber, Marina Hildebrandt, Shanna-Leigh Davidson, Joanna Rivero, Huda Usman, Tagbo H.R. Niepa, Katherine Hornbostel (2023). Demonstration of direct ocean carbon capture using encapsulated solvents . Chemical Engineering Journal.

Ekeoma U. Uzoukwu, Vienvilay Phandanouvong-Lozano, Huda Usman, Charles S. Sfeir, Tagbo H.R. Niepa (2022). Droplet-based microsystems as novel assessment tools for oral microbial dynamics . Biotechnology Advances.

Huda Usman, Shanna-Leigh Davidson, Nithil H. Manimaran, Jenna T. Nguyen, Aïssatou Bah, Rishabh Seth, Eric Beckman, Tagbo H.R. Niepa (2021). Design of a well-defined poly(dimethylsiloxane)-based microbial nanoculture system . Materials Today Communications.

Nithil Harris Manimaran, Huda Usman, Kevine L. Kamga, Shanna-Leigh Davidson, Eric Beckman, Tagbo H. R. Niepa (2020). Developing a Functional Poly(dimethylsiloxane)-Based Microbial Nanoculture System Using Dimethylallylamine . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

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Huda Usman, Mehdi Molaei, Stephen House, Martin F. Haase, Cindi L. Dennis, Tagbo H.R. Niepa (2025). Magnetically Responsive Nanocultures for Direct Microbial Assessment in Soil Environments .