DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Indian Institute Of Technology Madras
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Ashis Kumar Sen

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FF 04, CFD Building, Fluid Systems Laboratory

PhD from University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA.

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ashis[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

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  • Dr. Ashis Kumar Sen received his B.E. from NIT Rourkela, M.E. from IISc, Bangalore and Ph.D. from the USC – Columbia, USA. After his M.E., he worked as a Thermal Engineer at Applied Thermal Technologies, Pune. After his Ph.D., he worked as a Senior Microfluidics Engineer at Epigem Ltd, UK and subsequently as a Research Associate and R&D Engineer at the University of Southampton jointly with the Sensors group at the National Oceanography Centre, UK. He has been a faculty at IIT Madras since 2010.
  • His research interests are mainly in the areas of Micro/nanoscale Interfacial Phenomena and Lab on Chip technology.

  1. Institute Research & Development Award 2021-Mid career Level, IIT Madras, 2021.
  2. Swarna Jayanti Fellowship, DST, India, 2017-18.
  3. NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards, 2019.
  4. Gandian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Awards, 2020.
  5. Young Faculty Recognition Award 2017, IIT Madras, 2017.
  6. Institute Research & Development Award 2017-Early career Level, IIT Madras, 2017.
  7. Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer Award, 2013.
  8. Institutions of Engineers India (IEI) Young Engineer Award, 2013.
  9. DAAD (German Academic Exchange) Fellowship, 2012.
  10. University of South Carolina (USC) Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2007.

  1. Acoustic particle trapping driven by axial primary radiation force in shaped traps, L. Malik, A. Nath, S. Nandy, T. Laurell, and A. K. Sen, Physical Review E, 2022.
  2. Reversible stream drop transition in a microfluidic coflow system via on demand exposure to acoustic standing waves, E. Hemachandran, S. Z. Hoque, T. Laurell, A. K. Sen, Physical Review Letters, 2021.
  3. Attraction and Repulsion between Liquid Droplets over a Liquid-impregnated Surface, B. Majhy, S. K. Jain and A. K. Sen, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2020.
  4. Cassie-Wenzel wetting transition on nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces induced by surface acoustic waves, A. Sudeepthi, L. Yeo and A. K. Sen, Applied Physics Letters, 2020.
  5. Trapping and coalescence of diamagnetic aqueous droplets using negative magnetophoresis, S. K. Jain, U. Banerjee, and A. K. Sen, Langmuir, 2020.
  6. Understanding of the role of dilution on evaporative deposition patterns of blood droplets over hydrophilic and hydrophobic substrates, R. Iqbal, A. Q. Shen and A. K. Sen, J Colloid & Interface Science, 2020.
  7. Cross-stream migration and coalescence of droplets in a microchannel co-flow using magnetophoresis, U. Banerjee, C. Mandal, S. Jain and A. K. Sen, Physics of Fluids, 2019.
  8. Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) biosensor based on thermally annealed silver nanostructures with on-chip blood-plasma separation for the detection of dengue non-structural protein NS1 antigen, Pearlson P. S., A. K. Sen, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2019.
  9. Continuous splitting of aqueous droplets at the interface of co-flowing immiscible streams in a microchannel, K. S. Jayaprakash, A. K. Sen, Soft Matter, 14(5), 2018.
  10. Acoustic impedance based label-free isolation of circulating tumour cells from blood using acoustophoresis,S. Karthick, P. N. Pradeep, P. Kanchana and A. K. Sen, Lab on Chip, 2018.
  11. Improved understanding of the acoustophoretic focusing of dense suspension in a microchannel, S. Karthick and A. K. Sen, Phys. Rev. E, 96, 052606, 2017.
  12. Facile fabrication and characterization of a PDMS-derived candle soot coated stable biocompatible superhydrophobic surface, R. Iqbal, B. Majhy and A. K. Sen, ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces, 9(36), 2017.