Guttapalli Naveen Kumar




Prime Minister Research Fellow,

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur,

Kharagpur, West Bengal - 721302, India




Contact Information

Current Affiliation

Research Scholar (July 2017 - Present)

Microfluidics and Microscale Transport Processes Laboratory

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Research Interests

  • Biological Microswimmers

  • Artificial Microswimmers and Optimization

  • Complex Fluids

  • Soft-matter Physics

Advisor Information

Supervisor: Prof. Suman Chakraborty

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Email: suman@mech.iitkgp.ernet.in

Co-supervisor: Dr. Aditya Bandopadhyay

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Email: aditya@mech.iitkgp.ac.in

Academic Background

B. Tech (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering and M. Tech in Thermal Science and Engineering (2012-2017)

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

CGPA: 9.46/10

Awards and Achievements

  • Institute Silver Medal (Rank-1, Mechanical Engineering) - IIT Kharagpur (2017)

  • Proficiency Award on having done the best project work among the Dual Degree students in Mechanical Engineering - IIT Kharagpur (2017)

  • Sikharini Nag Memorial Award - IIT Kharagpur (2017)

  • Dwaraka Nath Singh Memorial Prize - IIT Kharagpur (2017)

Courses taken during PhD

  • Fluid Mechanics

  • High Performance Scientific Computing

  • Advanced Mathematical Techniques in Chemical Engineering