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 [ http://www.ichmt.org/data-files/council.asp ]
   
   
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
   [ http://www.iutam.net/iutam/Addresses/index.php/Biswas ]
   
   
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
    [ http://www.iutam.net/iutam/Addresses/index.php/Biswas ]
    
    
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. 2011: Awarded J C Bose National Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology
    
    
24. 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.
    
    
25. 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)
    
    
26. 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)

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 ] ]