Curriculum Vitae

 


PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Date of Birth: May 23, 1956
Sex: Male
Marital Status: Married
Children: One daughter
Nationality: Indian



AWARDS AND SPECIAL MENTIONS:

  1. 1987-1988, July-Dec 1992, May & June 1997: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Bonn, Germany:

  2. July-Dec 1994: JSPS Invitation Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku 102, Japan:

  3. 1998-Date: Nominated as a Member of the Scientific Council of the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer

  4. 2001: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal: Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics published by Inderscience, Switzerland

  5. Guest Professor at the LSTM, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (December 2001 to October, 2002)

  6. 2002: Keynote speaker at the Twelfth International Heat Transfer Conference at Grenoble, France (August 18-23, 2002)

  7. Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation

  8. 2004: Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering

  9. 2004: Indian Representative at the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics


  10. 2006: Appointed Associate Editor to the Journal of Heat Transfer (Transactions of the ASME) till 2009

  11. 2006: Invited Speaker at the Eleventh Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics (11ACFM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (22-25 May, 2006)

  12. 2006: Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

  13. 2007: Dr. Gurmukh D and Veena M Mehta Endowed Chair Professor

  14. 2007: Re-elected Indian Representative at the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics


  15. 2007: Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India

  16. 2008: President of the Indian Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM), India

  17. 2008: Member of the Editorial Board of Computational Thermal Sciences (Begell House)

  18. 2009: Director of CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI) Durgapur

  19. 2010: Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore), India

  20. 2010: Delivered Prestigious CNR Rao Lecture (Febraury 25, 2010)

  21. 2010: Member of Editorial Board of Indian Journal of Engineering & Materials Sciences (CSIR-NISCAIR)

  22. 2010: Delivered Prestigious Bhatnagar Memorial Lecture at the ISTAM Congress (An International Meet)

  23. 2010: Acting Director: Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi

  24. 2011: Awarded J C Bose National Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology

  25. 2011: Delivered Keynote Lecture at the Second International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems, Dalian, China

  26. 2011: Delivered Prof. B.R. Seth Memorial Institute Lecture at IIT Kharagpur

  27. 2012: Member of Editorial Board of Heat Transfer – Asian Research

  28. 2012: Delivered ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell Research Seminar at IISc Bangalore

  29. 2012: Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, India.

  30. 2013: Invited Lecture at the 100th Indian Science Congress Kolkata.

  31. 2013: Distinguished Alumnus Award, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur.

  32. 2013: Key Note Lecture at the 15th AcSICFD Symposium, IISc Bangalore

  33. 2013: Director, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

  34. 2014: President, Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer

  35. 2014: Foundation Day Oration: Tezpur University, Assam, India

  36. 2014: First Prof. A.S. Gupta Memorial Lecture, 59th Congress of ISTAM, Bangalore

  37. 2015: Associate Editor, Computers & Fluids

  38. 2015: Plenary Lecture at the Indian National Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM), IIT Delhi

  39. 2015: Honorary Fellow of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, India

  40. 2015: Invited Lecture at the Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica, Taiwan

  41. 2016: Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

  42. 2017: Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causa) conferred by National Institute of Technology, Agartala

  43. 2018: Keynote Lecture at the I2CNER Annual Symposium on Challenges in Thermal Science and Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan.

  44. 2018: Honorary Doctorate conferred by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

  45. 2018: Twenty seventh Dr. Amitabha Bhattacharyya Memorial Lecture of IEI, Indian Engineering Congress.

  46. 2019: Invited Talk at the Taiwan-India Joint Conference at CASTS, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  47. 2019: National Technology Day Lecture at the CSIR- National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad.

  48. 2019: Plenary talk at the 7th International Conference on Advancements and Futuristic Trends in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, IIT Ropar.

  49. 2019: Plenary talk at the 7th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation at IIT Mandi.

  50. 2020: Plenary talk at the International Conference on Recent Advancement of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Silchar

  51. 2020: Plenary talk at the International Conference on Innovations in Thermo-Fluid Engineering and Sciences, NIT Rourkela

  52. 2020: Plenary talk at the International Conference on Energy and Sustainable Development, Jadavpur University

  53. 2020: Plenary talk at the International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP-2020) at IIT Guwahati

  54. 2021: Plenary Lecture at the Advances in Computational Heat Transfer (CHT-21) at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  55. 2021: Institute Fellow of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur-2020

  56. 2022: Distinguished Teacher Award - 2022 by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

  57. 2023: Bestowed with 2023 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the Science Category for Sustained and Outstanding Contributions to Thermal Science and Engineering, including Heat Transfer Enhancement, Phase Change Heat Transfer with and without Electrohydrodynamic Forces and Dynamics of Liquid Jet and Droplet Impingement.

  58. Reviewer for the following journals: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Numerical Heat Transfer Part-A, Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), Enhanced Heat Transfer, Journal of Heat Transfer (ASME), Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Journal of Fluids Engineering (ASME), International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Physics of Fluids, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

  59. Membership: Indian National Academy of Engineering (Fellow), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Fellow), The Institution of Engineers, India (Fellow), ILASS (South Asia), NSFMFP (India), ISHMT (India), World Innovation Foundation (Fellow)

  60. Education: PhD (1985) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

ADMINISTRATION:

    1990--1998: Computer Coordinator of the Mechanical Engin Dept, IIT Kanpur


    1996--2001: Coordinator, Fluids Mechanics Laboratory


    1998--1999: Chairman, Students' Placement


    1999--2000: Chairman, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering-2000


    2000--2001: Organizing Chairman, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering-2001


    1999--Date: Convener, Centre for Advanced Computing, IIT Kanpur


    Jan 2003--Dec 2005: DEAN OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, IIT KANPUR


    2006--2007: Organizing Chairman, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering-2007


    2003--2009: Institute (IITK) Coordinator: National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)

    2009- Aug 2013: Director, CSIR- Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur and Ludhiana

    2010- Aug 2013: Founder Director, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi- 110 001.

    Sept 2013 - June 2019: Director, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati - 781039.


OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES:


    Organizing Secretary of the THIRD ISHMT-ASME HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER CONFERENCE AND 14TH NATIONAL HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER CONFERENCE, 29-31 December 1997, IIT Kanpur, India


    Organizer of the SHORT TERM COURSE on SPECIAL TOPICS IN FLUID MECHANICS, 20-25 July 1998, Sponsored by QIP, Government of India (together with K. Muralidhar)


    Organizer of the SHORT TERM COURSE on FUNDAMENTALS AND MODELING ASPECTS OF TURBULENT FLOW, 4-9 December, 1995 Sponsored by QIP, Government of India (together with V. Eswaran)


    Organizing Scientist of the INDO-GERMAN WINTER ACADEMY (Brainstorming Academic Conclave on several exciting research themes, attended by the bright young undergraduates of various IITs and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) 2002 and 2004 (together with Prof. Sanjay Mittal). [URL: http://www.leb.eei.uni-erlangen.de/WA_INDIA/index.htm ] ]

     

 

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