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Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy  is the Asa Whitney Professor of Dynamical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He is world renowned for seminal, cross-disciplinary, and ground-breaking contributions to the permanent literature in engineering on phase-change heat/mass transfer with droplets and bubbles, multi-phase flows, buoyancy-driven transport, and ionized arc-plasma transport with long-lasting and significant applications in condensation, combustion, microelectronic packaging, and micro-/macro-biological systems. In addition to being a world class researcher, he is also considered as a phenomenal educator. He has won many teaching awards, and his books are widely used as textbooks in many courses at various universities across the world. His books are known for explaining very difficult theories in lucid manner.

The technical treatment in his contributions is not only scientifically fundamental for the many physical and mechanistic insights it provides, but has provided progressive ideas for emerging technological developments as well as a mandatory reference for practicing engineers in the broad field of mechanical engineering. His publications reflect a remarkably insightful understanding of basic phenomena underlying transport by droplets, bubbles, and interfacial processes that cover a diverse spectrum of critical thermal-fluid science and engineering problems.

Ayyaswamy has won many highly prestigious awards for his remarkable research accomplishments. He has delivered invited lectures and keynote lectures at many distinguished universities, national and international conferences, and scholarly societies; these include the Univ. of Cambridge, England,  The Danish center for Applied Mathematics & Mechanics, Lyngby, Denmark, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, The Chinese Nuclear Society, Beijing, PRC, and the Sir G.I. Taylor Memorial lecture in Fluid Mechanics at the 53 rd Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Hyderabad, India.

In addition to being a world renowned researcher, Ayyaswamy is also considered an outstanding educator. He has won several teaching awards. He has also won an award for outstanding service to the student section of the Am. Soc. Mech. Engineers.

Education

 * Ph.D. (1971) – University of California, Los Angeles, Thesis Advisor: Professor Ivan Catton
 * M.E. (1967) – Columbia University, New York, Thesis Advisor:Professor Harold G. Elrod
 * M.S. (1965) – Columbia University, New York
 * B.E. (1962) – University of Mysore,India

Post-Doctoral Work:

Energy and Kinetics Department, University of California, Los Angeles

1973-1974| Supervisors: Profs Ivan Catton & Donald K. Edwards, Topic: Capillary flows in grooved surfaces.

1972-1973| Supervisor: 	Prof. David Okrent, Topic: Large scale safety of nuclear reactors.

Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles

1971-1972| Supervisor: 	Prof. Friedrich H. Busse, Topic: Bounding theories in turbulence.

Notable International Awards

 * ASME 2007 Worcester Reed Warner Medal for "outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering”, 2007.
 * Expert Consultant, Workshop on “Meeting the workforce needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration”, NRC of the National Academies, Washington, DC, 2006.
 * Panelist, Review of NASA Strategic Roadmaps: Space Station Panel, NRC of the National Academies, Washington, DC, 2005.
 * ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the Science Category for “many seminal contributions to such diverse fields of heat transfer as phase change, plasma, bio, and natural convection, in particular to transport processes with moving droplets and thermal design of advanced industrial equipment,” 2001.
 * Visiting Professor, Dept. of Mech. Eng., University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2000.
 * Council of Indian Organizations Award for Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Science, 1999.
 * Am. Inst. Aeronautics and Astronautics “Aerospace Professional of the Year” award, for “Outstanding contributions to the advancement of the arts and sciences of aeronautics and astronautics”, 1997.
 * Appointed U.N. Expert & Consultant for Eng. & Techn., UNIDO, Vienna, Austria, 1991.
 * Elected Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1990.
 * Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1979.
 * Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1979.
 * Reid Warren Award for Distinguished Teaching, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1978.

Patents
1.	Bioactive, degradable composite for tissue engineering, U.S. Patent #6328990.

2.	Hollow bone mineral-like calcium phosphate particles, U.S. Patent #6416774.