Prof. Amit Agrawal

(BT/ME/1996)

Prof. Amit Agrawal is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Previously, he has also served as the Dean of International Relations at IIT Bombay. His research interests include the development of novel bio- microdevices, micro-scale flows, theoretical fluid mechanics, synthetic jet and microchannel based cooling of electronic devices, and turbulent flows.

He received his B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Ph.D from University of Delaware, USA. He has supervised 39 Ph.D Theses, 13 Postdoctoral fellows, 68 Masters Students, authored 13+ patents and a book titled - Microscale Flow and Heat Transfer: Mathematical Modelling and Flow Physics. His group is credited with providing the first analytical solution of the Burnett equation, development of a unique blood plasma separation microdevice and derivation of equations which are more general than the Navier- Stokes equations.

Prof. Agrawal was awarded the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for his contributions to engineering sciences in 2018 by CSIR, India.

Honouring his stellar contributions in the fields of Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, and the development of Novel Bio-Microdevices, IIT Kanpur confers upon Prof. Amit Agrawal the Distinguished Alumni Award 2025.