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Sameer Khandekar

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, University of Stuttgart

ORCID iD 0000-0002-8303-8068
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Prof. Sameer Khandekar is affiliated to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, since September 2004. He completed M. Tech. program from IIT Kanpur, India (1998-2000) with specialization in Fluid-Thermal Engineering, and subsequently earned the doctoral degree from University of Stuttgart, Germany (2000-2004). Earlier, after his undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering from Government Engineering College, Jabalpur (MP), he worked as a marine power plant engineer on board sea-going merchant ships for four years (1994-1998).

At present, Prof. Khandekar is an occupant of Sir M. Visvesvaraya Chair at IIT Kanpur (2017-ongoing). He is also a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and Institution of Engineers (India). He is a recipient of P. K. Kelkar Research Fellowship from IIT Kanpur in 2008, DAAD Fellowship in 2011, Prof. K. N. Seetharamu Award from the Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer in 2010, George Grover Medal from the International Heat Pipe Committee in 2007, and Young Scientist Award from the Department of Atomic Energy, India, in 2005.
Prof. Khandekar is Associate Editor of International Journal of Thermal Sciences and Interfacial Phenomena and Heat Transfer. He is the Chairperson of the International Heat Pipe Committee, and was an executive member of the Indian Heat and Mass Transfer Society. He has served as an invited faculty member at five international universities in Germany, France, Brazil, Russia, and Thailand. He has also served as Visitors nominee of OOT Dharwad and all NITs, and academic senate member of one central, one state funded, and two private engineering institutes.

He has over 125 research publications in international journals, over one hundred publications/ presentations in international conferences, including 30 Keynote lectures/Invited Talks, eight patents, and five books to his credit. His current research interests are in experimental phase-change thermo-fluidic systems, evaporation, boiling, condensation, heat pipes and energy systems.

He has served as the Head of the Department, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur (February 2020 – January 2023). Earlier, he was the Associate Dean (Innovation and Incubation) and Coordinator of the SIDBI Innovational and Incubation Center, IIT Kanpur during 2015 - 2017. He has also served on several key administrative positions, including Chairperson, Institute Air Conditioning System, Treasurer and Board Member, IITK Alumni Association, Head of IITK Central Workshop, Member of Post-Graduate Academic Review Committee (2020), to name a few. Recently, he also chaired the committee on drafting the IIT Kanpur Students’ Entrepreneurship Policy, which has been implemented (2022). He is also the President of Shiksha Sopan Trust, a voluntary organization, serving the underprivileged sections of the society in and around IIT Kanpur. He writes Hindi poems and is interested in theater.

Employment

  • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Professor

Education

  • University of Stuttgart

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