About the Authors

Mukesh Karunanethy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Applied Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Rahul Tripathi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Applied Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Mahesh V. Panchagnula

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

mvp@iitm.ac.in

Affiliation Department of Applied Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Raghunathan Rengaswamy

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Competing Interests

The authors declare there is a patent application on the discussed technology filed at Indian Patent Office, under the title ‘Exhaled breath based user authentication and diagnosis’ (PATENT PENDING - 202241065024). This does not alter our adherence to PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.