Gautam Biswas (; born 23 May 1956) is an academic serving as a Senior Professor Emeritus in Mechanical Engineering at
BITS Pilani
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, K. K. Birla Goa Campus from January 2025. Earlier, Prof. Biswas served as the
director
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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, and
director
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Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
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of the
CSIR -
Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute
Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (also known as CSIR-CMERI Durgapur or CMERI Durgapur) is a public engineering research and development institution in Durgapur, West Bengal, India. It is a constituent laboratory of the Indian ...
at
Durgapur
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.
He was the G.D. and V.M. Mehta Endowed Chair Professor, and Dean of Academic Affairs at
IIT Kanpur
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.
His total tenure in various capacities at the
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
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lasted from 1990 to 2024.
Education
Biswas completed his
B.E.
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from
IIEST (formerly B.E. College under
Calcutta University
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) in 1979 and his PhD from the
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur or IIT-KGP) is a public institute of technology, research university, and autonomous institute established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal. Founded in 1951, the in ...
in 1985. He was
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowat the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany an
JSPS Invitation Fellowat the Yokohama National University, Japan. Biswas is a Fellow of the
Indian National Science Academy
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(INSA, New Delhi), the
Indian Academy of Sciences
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(IAS, Bangalore), and the
National Academy of Sciences India (NASI, Allahabad). He is also a Fellow of the
Indian National Academy of Engineering
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The academy is registered under the Socie ...
(INAE) and the
Institution of Engineers (IEI).
Research
Biswas has contributed to the fields of heat transfer and fluid mechanics. His work on enhancing heat transfer using delta-winglet type vortex generators has been included in international textbooks. The concept has been used by industry for various HAVC systems. Additionally, he has contributed to the understanding of bluff body flows. His work on large-eddy simulation of flow past bluff bodies and heat transfer in impinging jets has been noted in the scientific community. Biswas's contributions pertaining to handling free surface flows and some of his investigations related to the prediction of bubble growth in film boiling have been recognized. Biswas and co-researchers analyzed the impact of falling drops on a liquid surface and contributed to the understanding of partial coalescence and the transition between coalescence and splashing. Experimental evidence of large bubble entrapment occurring outside the traditional small region on the V-D map, made the boundary of large bubble entrapment a topic of interest. His group probed the zone of large bubble entrapment and underlying physics. He has published on the formation of air bubbles from a submerged orifice. His group analyzed the impact of a train of high-speed micro-drops on a deep liquid pool and explained a mechanistic route leading to the creation of a deep cavity inside the liquid pool. Biswas and co-researchers contributed to understanding that EMT cells are more drug-resistant, with a two-fold higher expression of the multi-drug resistance (MDR1) gene.
Awards
*Biswas was awarded an honorary doctorate by the
National Institute of Technology Agartala
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in 2017.
*He was conferred an honorary doctorate by the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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, Greece, in 2018.
*IIT Kanpur awarded Biswas the Institute Fellow award for the year 2020.
*In recognition of his teaching,
IIT Kanpur
The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT- Kanpur or IIT-K) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. As an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), it was declared an Institute of National Importance by th ...
conferred the Distinguished Teacher Award upon Biswas in 2022.
*Biswas received the 2023 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the Science Category for contributions to thermal science and engineering, including heat transfer enhancement, phase change heat transfer with and without electrohydrodynamic forces, and the dynamics of liquid jet and droplet impingement.

*In 2011, he was awarded the J C Bose National Fellowship by the
Science and Engineering Research Board
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(DST),
Government of India
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.
Administration
*Organizing Chairman,
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
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- 2001
*Dean of Academic Affairs,
IIT Kanpur
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(Jan 2003 - Dec 2005)
*Director,
CSIR -
Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute
Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (also known as CSIR-CMERI Durgapur or CMERI Durgapur) is a public engineering research and development institution in Durgapur, West Bengal, India. It is a constituent laboratory of the Indian ...
(CMERI), Durgapur and Ludhiana (2009 - Aug 2013)
*Founder Director,
Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research
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(AcSIR) (2010 - Aug 2013)
*Director,
IIT Guwahati
The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) is a public technical university established by the Government of India, located in Amingaon, North Guwahati, in the state of Assam in India. It is the sixth Indian Institute of Tech ...
(Sept 2013 - June 2019)
References
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Indian Institute of Technology directors
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
1956 births
Living people
West Bengal academics