Suman Chakraborty Ph.D.

Position Department / Business Unit
Professor Emeritus Mechanical Engineering
Institution Disciplines
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Engineering
City State / Provence
Kharagpur
Country Website
India
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Dr. Suman Chakraborty is currently a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. He has research interests in the area of Microfluidics and Micro/nano scale transport processes, including their theoretical, computational, and experimental modeling, encompassing the underlying fundamentals as well as bio-medical, bio-technological, chip cooling, and energy related applications. He has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Science (FNASc), Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), recipient of the Indo-US Research Fellowship, Scopus Young Scientist Award for high citation of his research in scientific/technical Journals, and Young Scientist/ Young Engineer Awards from various National Academies of Science and Engineering. He has also been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and a Visiting Professor at the Stanford University. He has 160+ International Journal publications.

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