Curriculum Vitae

A consolidated record in one place. Several of these sections also have their own pages.

Positions

• Assistant Professor, JBMSHST, IIT Guwahati. Jun 2025 to present.
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Luxembourg (Anupam Sengupta Group). Dec 2024 to May 2025.
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Tecnologico de Monterrey (Marc Madou Group). Sep 2022 to Jul 2024.

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, 2018 to 2022. Advisor: Prof. Suman Chakraborty. Thesis: "Investigating the Interplay of Rotational and Capillary Forces with Blood Rheology to Develop Rapid Point-of-Care Centrifugal Microfluidic Devices."
• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2015 to 2017. Advisor: Prof. Gerald Morrison. Thesis: "CFD Simulation of the Influence of Viscosity on an Electrical Submersible Pump."
• B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, IIT Indore, 2011 to 2015.

Publications

The full publication list, in preparation and published, is on the Publications page.

Grants and Funding

• "Pathogen dynamics at micro-scale: Fundamentals and Applications." Principal Investigator. IIT Guwahati Institute Start-up Grant. Sanction no. SHSTSUGIITG01504RAAG001. INR 20,00,000. 27 Nov 2025 to 26 Nov 2027. Ongoing.

Patents

• "A Point of Care System Comprising Blood/Body Fluid Counting Kit." Granted, India. Grant no. 568043. Granted 26 Jun 2025. Application no. 202031011940. Inventors: Rahul Agarwal, Arka Bhowmik, Arnab Sarkar, Devdeep Mukherjee, Suman Chakraborty.

Awards and Honours

• Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award, 2021. Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI). For the point-of-care spinning disc for complete blood count.

Teaching

Courses at IIT Guwahati. Postgraduate: Basics of Mathematical Modeling and Simulation; Biomicrofluidics; Research Methodology. Undergraduate: CAD Lab; Computing Lab; Thermodynamics.

Earlier. Teaching Assistant, Heat Transfer (NPTEL online course, 2019, 2020, and 2021); Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Texas A&M University.

Professional Service

Applied Physics Letters; Biosensors and Bioelectronics; Communications Physics; Microsystems & Nanoengineering (Nature); Physics of Fluids; Sensors and Actuators Reports.

Session and poster chair, ICOM 2025 (International Conference on Micro Nano Fluidics), IIT Guwahati; organizing team and poster chair, Research & Industrial Conclave (RIC) 2025, IIT Guwahati; session and poster chair, Symposium on Advances in Thermo-Fluid Sciences 2025, IIT Guwahati.

• Life Member, Indian Society for Miniaturized Systems (ISMS), 2026 to present.
• Member, IEEE and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), 2026 to present.