Rajnish Kumar (chemical engineer)

Rajnish Kumar is an Indian chemical engineer who specialises in clathrate hydrates and gas hydrates. He is a professor in the department of chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2022.

In 2018, Clarivate Analytics named him as one of the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds and Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering. He received the NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award for the year 2016.