User:Ashis Kumar Sen

Ashis Kumar Sen is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras, where he has been a faculty member since 2010 [1]. He received his Ph.D. degree from USC-Columbia, USA [2] in 2008, and subsequently did his Post-Doc at the University of Southampton, UK [3]. He received his bachelors and master’s degree from NIT Rourkela [4] and IISc Bangalore [5] respectively.

After joining IIT Madras, he has secured more than 10 crores of research funding from various funding agencies to setup and run a Micro Nano Bio -Fluidics Unit to carryout cutting-edge research in the area [6, 7]. He has guided 10 PhD/MS scholars so far and currently guiding 12 PhD/MS scholars. He has published more than100 research papers so far in various prestigious international journals and filed 6 patents [8]. He has taught several core courses to PG/UG students, offered new elective courses on “Microfluidics and Microsystems” and "Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena", and also offered an NPTEL course on “Microfluidics” [9].

He is the recipient of the prestigious Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award 2017-18 [10-12], NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award 2019 (as finalist) [13], Young Faculty Recognition Award (YFRA), 2017 [14], Institute Research and Development Award (IRDA)- Early Career Level, 2017 [15], Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer Award, 2013 [16], Institution of Engineers India (IEI) Young Engineer Award, 2013 [17], DAAD Fellowship [18], 2012 and the USC Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2007 [19].

His research work has recently been appreciated by the honorable Minister of Education, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank [20].

He is a Life member of the Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer, Indian Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, and Indian Society of Smart Materials and Structures.

His main research interests are in the areas of microfluidics-based interfacial phenomena and healthcare technology.

[1]https://mech.iitm.ac.in/meiitm/personnal/ashis/

[2]https://sc.edu/

[3] https://www.southampton.ac.uk/

[4] https://www.nitrkl.ac.in/

[5] https://www.iisc.ac.in/

[6] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/iit-madras-device-can-diagnose-sepsis-early/articleshow/78525787.cms

[7] https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/IIT-M-develops-a-lab-on-a-chip-diagnostic-device/article15000647.ece

[8] http://www.ashislab.in/publications.php

[9] https://nptel.ac.in/courses/112/106/112106169/

[10] https://www.edexlive.com/news/2018/dec/03/iit-madras-professor-researching-on-microfluid-phenomena-chosen-for-swarnajayanti-fellowship-4614.html

[11] https://indianexpress.com/article/education/meet-the-winners-of-swarnajayanti-fellowship-5461190/

[12] https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/3-scientists-from-city-get-fellowship/article25650272.ece

[13] https://www.elsevier.com/en-in/solutions/scopus/scopus-awards-2019

[14] https://alumni.iitm.ac.in/young-faculty-recognition-award-yfra-2017-awardees/

[15] https://www.iitm.ac.in/recognitions/faculty-awards

[16] https://www.inae.in/recipients-of-young-engineer-award/

[17] https://www.ieindia.org/webui/IEI-Activities.aspx#prizes-awards

[18] http://selectbiosciences.com/conferences/biographies.aspx?speaker=420545&conf=LOACI13

[19] https://sites.google.com/site/ashisen/faculty

[20] https://twitter.com/DrRPNishank/status/1316317707650785280