Bio-Sketch

Himanshu Tyagi is currently working as Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical, Materials and Energy Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology - Ropar. He has previously worked in the Steam Turbine Design Division of Siemens (in Germany and India) and in the Thermal & Fluids Core Competency group of Intel Corp (in USA). He did his PhD from Arizona State University, USA in the field of heat transfer, and specifically looked at the radiative and ignition properties of nanofluids. He and his co-workers proposed the concept of direct absorption solar collectors using nanofluids which won the Best paper award at the ASME Energy Sustainability Conference at Long Beach, CA.

Himanshu also studied the ignition properties of nanoparticle-laden diesel droplets. The publication based on this work has appeared in Nano-Letters and has been highlighted in Nature Nanotechnology and Chemical & Engineering News. Prior to his PhD he obtained his masters from University of Windsor, Canada and his bachelors from I.I.T. Delhi both in the field of Mechanical Engineering. At present he is working to develop nanotechnology-based clean and sustainable energy sources with a team of several PhD, masters, and undergraduate students.

Among other awards, Himanshu has received Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA) at I.I.T. Delhi and the International Graduate Student Scholarship at University of Windsor, Canada. His research interests include thermo-fluids engineering, radiative and ignition properties of nanofluids, nanoscale heat transfer and its applications in energy harvesting.

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