Kirti Sahu is currently a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad. He completed his MS and PhD from JNCASR, Bangalore and then worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Imperial College London from 2006 to 2009. He joined IIT Hyderabad in 2009. In 2015, he was a visiting researcher at the Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He received the Young Scientist Awards from the National Academy of Sciences of India, the National Academy of Sciences of India and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He also serves as a member of the External Affairs Committee of the APS-DFD. He has been an associate editor of the Journal of Engineering Mathematics since 2019.