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Susanta Sinha Roy
Dr Susanta Sinha Roy obtained his PhD in science from Jadavpur University, India, in 1998. Consequently, he worked as a PDRA at various universities, namely, at the University of Manchester (1999-2000), at the University of Leipzig, Germany (2000-2001), at the Queens University Belfast (2002-2003). From 2003-2011, he was a research fellow at the Nanotechnology and Integrated Bioengineering Centre, at the University of Ulster. He has expertise on three research areas: i) Nanomaterial synthesis and characterization, ii) Physics of fluid flow in micro-channel, iii) Dielectric, field emission and impedance measurements. His current research focuses on Micro/Nano-fabrication, bio-functionalization and device characterization for impedemetric and optical sensors.Email
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Siddhartha Das
Dr Siddhartha Das obtained his PhD in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in 2010. Before that he completed his B-Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the same Institute (he was ranked 3rd) in 2005. Dr. Das has previously worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Physics of Fluids Group, University of Twente, the Netherlands (2009-2011). Dr. Das has been the recipient of Best B-Tech Project Award offered by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) as well as S. P. Sengupta Memorial Best B-Tech project award in Computational Fluid Dynamics offered by IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Das had also received National Doctoral Fellowship offered by All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) as well as High Value PhD Fellowship offered by IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Das was also chosen for the Non-EU Postdoctoral Fellowship by Begium Federal Office. Research expertise of Dr. Das are in the following two areas: i) Micro-nanofluidic electrokinetic transport and ii) Capillarity and contact line dynamics. His current research will focus on theoretical modeling of various problems spanning areas such as electrokinetics, electro-capillarity, electro-elasto-capillarity, bio-nanofluidics etc. Details available here.Email
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Prashant R. Waghmare
Prashant R. Waghmare received his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pune, India 2004 and his Masters in Thermal and Fluids Engineering in 2006 with gold medal from the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere, India. He worked as Research Associate during his M.Tech. dissertation for Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India and also worked as project staff on his preliminary part of Ph.D. in Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He has continued at University of Alberta pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering while holding an Alberta Ingenuity scholarship. His research interests involve the application of microfluidics to point-of-care system. For more details click here
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Naga Siva Kumar Gunda
Naga Siva Kumar Gunda received his B.Tech degree with Gold Medal in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India in 2006 and his M.Tech degree with Gold Medal in Reliability Engineering in 2008 from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. Now he is pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada, holding an Alberta Ingenuity Scholarship. His research interests involve the application of microfluidics to biomolecules separation.
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Aleksey Baldygin
Aleksey received his MS degree in Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU) at the Faculty of Power Engineering, the Department of Refrigeration, Cryogenic Technique and Comfort Life Support Systems, Moscow, Russia in 2010. As intern student he was working in Schlumberger Company for 2 years on experimental investigation of phase permeability and multi-phase flow through porous media. Aleksey was carrying out experiments, developing design of experimental installations and its automation using LabView, performing simulations of fluids flow through core samples.
Currently, he is pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta under the supervisions of Prof. David Nobes (Supervisor) and Prof. Sushanta K. Mitra (Co-Supervisor). His research topic is related to experimental investigation of multi-phase flow through porous media.
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Lalit Pant
Lalit received his Master of Science from the University of Alberta in 2011 and his Bachelors of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2009. During his M.Sc. he worked in the area of mass transport in porous media. He developed an experimental setup to measure effective diffusivity and permeability of fuel cell electrodes, and developed a novel mass transport model. During his undergraduate degree, he worked in the area of low temperature refrigeration, natural refrigerants, system modelling and Fluid Structure Interaction.
He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Marc Secanell (Supervisor) and Prof. Sushanta K. Mitra (Co-Supervisor). His current research is on the development of a multi-scale, two-phase gas transport model relevant to bioconversion of coal. For more details click here.
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Anil Stephen
Anil Stephen has received his Bachelors Degree in Automobile Engineering from Mahatma Gandhi University, India and Masters Degree in Fluids and Thermal Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India in 2010. He has worked on heat transfer area. Thereafter, he has one year teaching experience at Manipal University, India (2010-2011). Currently he is pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta under the supervision of Dr. Sushanta K. Mitra (Supervisor) and Dr. David Nobes (Co-Supervisor).
His current area of research is on the understanding of physico-chemical pathways of coal bioconversion through laboratory experiments.
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Orest Shardt
Orest obtained his BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta in 2010, receiving the APEGGA Past Presidents' Medal in Chemical Engineering and the Governor General's Silver Medal. His research involves lattice Boltzmann simulations of multiphase flows with a focus on emulsions and applications in microfluidics and porous media. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Chemical Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Jos Derksen (Supervisor) and Dr. Sushanta K. Mitra (Co-supervisor).
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Jerry Joseph
Jerry Joseph received his B.Tech degree with Gold Medal in Mechanical Engineering from Government Engineering College Thrissur under University of Calicut, India in 2007 . He has undergone a training on Marine engines and accessories at CIFNET (Central Institute of Fisheries and Nautical Engineering Training), Cochin, Kerala during his undergraduation. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. (Thesis) Degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Sushanta Mitra. Prior to joining University of Alberta, he has also worked with Accenture services Pvt. Ltd. at Bangalore , India as an SAP SRM ABAP consultant.
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Minashree Singh
Minashree has completed her B. Tech (Honors) in Bio-Informatics with distinction from Dr D.Y.Patil College of Biotechnology and Bio-Informatics, Pune.During her undergraduate she has worked on Artificial Neural Network(ANN) for structure prediction at Computer Science Department, IIT khargapur and ANN for Biometric face analysis at Guwahati University. She has also worked on the Epidemiological study/Biostatistics at the School of Medical Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur.Her research interests include Point of Care Diagnostics and Therapeutics on Lab-On-Chip. She is currently pursing her Master at the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and working on a collaborative project under the supervisions of Prof. Kamaljit Kaur (Supervisor) and Prof. Sushanta K. Mitra (Co-Supervisor).
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Dibyo Sarkar
Dibyo has received his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering with distinction from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India in 2011. During his undergraduation he has worked as a summer intern for three months in 2010 on 'Ice formation method (A natural optimization tool)', a Mercedes Benz funded project, at ITLR (Institut F�r Thermodynamik Der Luft- Und Raumfahrt) at Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany. He is currently pursuing M.Sc. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Sushanta K. Mitra. His research is on the development of LOC (Lab-on-a-Chip) devices.
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Rahul Misra
Rahul is currently pursuing a major in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has received Mamraj Agarwal Rashtria Puraskar from Honourable Governer of WB for excellent results in CBSE AISSE Exam. He has represented IIT Kharagpur at the 10th Indo-German Winter Academy, Delhi-2011 where he delivered a presentation on “Porous Medium flows and Applications” which also included application of Lattice Boltzmann Technique. At present he is the topper of Chemical Engineering Batch in IIT Kharagpur. His areas of interest include microfluidics, flow through porous media and Reaction Engineering.
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Monika Boddeda
Mounika is studying dual degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Department of Biotechnology, IIT Kharagpur. She has worked on Microbial Fuel Cells under Professor D.Das in IIT Kharagpur. She will be currently working on bio-functionalization of cantilever sensors.
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MNT Lab Alumni |
- Dr. Tim Hossain, RA
- Dr. Gajanan Nagare, PDF
- Reeshav Chatterjee, MSc
- Satya S. Gajapathi, MSc
- Bijoyendra Bera, MSc
- Akshay Gunde, MSc
- Lalit Pant, MSc
- Debjyoti Sen, MSc
- Omkar Lokhande, Intern
- Siddharth Thakur, Intern
- Aditya Bandopadhyay, Intern
- Sebastian Weise, Intern
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