About me

Qualifications

q Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 2009.

q M.Sc. (Engg.), Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 2005.

q B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India 2002.

q Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (April 2022 to present)

q Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (December 2017 to April 2022)

q Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (November 2012 to November 2017)

q Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (April 2011 - August 2012).

q Researcher, R&D, TATA Steel Ltd., Jamshedpur, India (May 2009 - March 2011).

q Project Associate, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (June 2005 - July 2007).

q Graduate engineer trainee, Larsen and Toubro Limited, Baroda, India (July 2002 - October 2002).

Work Experiences

q Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (May 2021-present)

q Associate Editor, Heat Transfer Research (March 2022-December 2023)

q Associate Editor, Frontiers in Energy Research - Energy Storage (January 2023-present)

q Elected Member, The National Academy of Sciences, INDIA, June 2019

q Founder Member (Vice Chair), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), USA- Maharashtra Section, August 2022-present

q Member of Executive Council, ISHMT (Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer), INDIA, 2026-Present

q Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), USA, October 2012

q Member, ISHMT (Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer), INDIA

q Member, ITAS (Indian Thermal Analysis Society), INDIA

q Member, NSFMFP (National Society for Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power), INDIA

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q Team SUNSPRING (Team: Prof. C Subramaniam, Prof. Sandip Kumar Saha, Pranitha, Anuj, Vaibhav) bagged the 2nd Prize of ACCESS (ACcelerating Climate, Energy & Sustainability Solutions) Awards 2025 for the theme of Climate Impacts & Adaptation 2025.

q Best paper award to the PhD student, Ms. Vanita A. Wagh in the 5^th International Conference on Fluid Flow and Thermal Science (ICFFTS 2024), Paper No. 158, DOI: 10.11159/icffts24.158, Lisbon, Portugal- November 21 - 23, 2024.

q Won Nan Pao Resins Zero Carbon Vanguard Award, (Team: Prof. Sandip K. Saha, Prof. C. Subramaniam, Anuj Bangad, Dipin T. and Nikita Vasudev Chitre), 2024 Net Zero Tech International Contest @Taiwan, National Taiwan University, 21 August 2024.

q ACS Front Cover in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research Industrial, Vol. 63(31), August 7, 2024 on Development of Scaling Laws for Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Analysis of Packed Beds filled with Mono-sized Pebbles

q ISHMT Best PhD Thesis Award 2023 to Dr. Sandeep Goli (Thesis Guides: Prof. Amit Agrawal and Prof. Sandip K. Saha) for Single-phase Laminar Hydrodynamic and Thermal Transport Phenomena in Microchannels with Varying Cross-Section: Investigation on Diamond and Hourglass Microchannels

q Post-Doctoral Fellow (Dr. Uddip Kashyap) received Third prize in a conclave organized by North East Centre for Technology Application and Outreach (NECTAR), Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA), and Vijnana Bharati (VIBHA) at Shillong, Meghalaya, 2021.

q Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence (FNAPE) Fellowship, 2022-2023.

q IIT Bombay Research Awards 2020.

q Best Poster Award during Second International Meeting on Clean Energy Material Innovation Challenge from 21^st-22^nd February 2019 at IIT Delhi, organized by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

q Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy (BASE) Fellowship, 2016.

q Young Faculty Award, IIT Bombay- 2012.

q KU Leuven Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Belgium, March 2011 - August 2012.

q Best paper award conferred at the International Symposium on Innovative Materials for Processes in Energy Systems (IMPRES2010), 29th November- 1st December, 2010, Singapore.

q Scholarship for excellent performance in Madhyamik Examination (10^th equivalent), 1996.

Honours and Awards

q Artificial Intelligence in Mechanical Engineering, 26 August 2023, ASME Maharashtra Section In Association with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

q Simulation-Driven Digital Engineering of Electric Vehicles, 14 November 2024, Webinar Series EVolution: Insights from C1973 EV Power Train LAB, IIT Bombay, and Ansys.

q MEEd Steering Committee and ASME Maharashtra Section Events on Computational Mechanics in Mechanical Engineering, in association with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai- 400076, hosted by MEEd Steering Committee and ASME Maharashtra Section on 9 August 2025.

q What Engineering is and What are the options they have while choosing the engineering branches once they get into esteemed institutes, GAIL Utkarsh Super 30 Mumbai Centre (the CSRL group responsible for coaching underprivileged students for IIT JEE Exams) in association with ASME, 11th April 2025.

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