Gautam Biswas

Gautam Biswas
Born23 May 1956 (1956-05-23) (age 69)
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
AwardsJ C Bose National Fellowship
Institute Fellow of IIT Kanpur
Distinguished Teacher Award of IIT Kanpur
2023 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award
Scientific career
FieldsFluid Mechanics, Convective Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Drops and Bubbles, Microfluidics.
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur,CSIR-CMERI Durgapur and Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
Websitehome.iitk.ac.in/~gtm

Gautam Biswas (Bengali: গৌতম বিশ্বাস; born 23 May 1956) is an academic serving as a Senior Professor Emeritus in Mechanical Engineering at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus from January 2025. Earlier, Prof. Biswas served as the director of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, and director of the CSIR - Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute at Durgapur. He was the G.D. and V.M. Mehta Endowed Chair Professor, and Dean of Academic Affairs at IIT Kanpur. His total tenure in various capacities at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur lasted from 1990 to 2024.