Profiles

Ankit Received his B.Tech Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the West Bengal University of Technology, West Bengal, India. He joined the National Institute of Technology, Silchar, as M. Tech. Scholar in Thermal Engineering in 2018. For his Master’s, he worked on a broad area of Transport in Porous Media. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Microfluidics and Heat Transfer as a part of the ‘Electronic Thermal Management group’ under Dr. Ananadaroop Bhattacharya at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Akash Chowdhury graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in 2020 with a B.Tech. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering. He did his Bachelor's thesis under Dr. Anandaroop Bhattacharya on Molten Metal impinging on substrates. He joined the group as a PhD student in the Fall 2023 under the supervision of Dr. Sushanta Mitra and will be working on Liquid-Liquid Encapsulation related to interfacial science. He has also been awarded with the WIN Nanofellowship.

Arnav obtained his Master's (by Research) in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in 2025. He received his Bachelor’s (B.E.) in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, in 2020. During his undergraduate and master’s research, he worked on combustion, emissions control, and wettability engineering. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the Micro Nano-scale Transport (MNT) Laboratory at the University of Waterloo, Canada, under the supervision of Professor Sushanta Mitra. His doctoral research focuses on use of liquid-liquid encapsulation for data centre cooling and corrosion technology.