Shankar, V.
V. Shankar is currently the Sajani Kumar Roy Chair Professor and Head, Department of Chemical
Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He obtained his B.Tech in Electrochemical Engineering from the Central
Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi, and his Masters and PhD in Chemical Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. After a post-doctoral stint at the University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, he joined IIT Kanpur in 2002, where he currently leads a group working in
the general area of stability of fluid flows, with focus on fluids with complex rheology, and in flow
past deformable solid surfaces. His research group uses a combination of theory, computation and
experiments to understand and unravel new physical phenomena in such systems
Chhabra, R. P.
Raj P. Chhabra has been a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institutes of Technology in Kanpur and in Ropar during 1984 -2022. After receiving his B.S., M.S. and Ph D (all in Chemical Engineering) from the erstwhile University of Roorkee, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Monash University, Melbourne respectively. Currently, he is a distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR, India. His current teaching and research interests are in the general areas of non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, multiphase flows, and research methods and skills. He has 10 books, 35 invited book chapters and reviews, and over 400 technical papers in peer reviewed journals to his credit. He is an elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and of the Indian National Science Academy.