Sanjay Mittal awarded with G D Birla Award for Scientific Research for 2015

IIT-Kanpur professor Sanjay Mittal in third week of June 2016 bagged the prestigious G D Birla Award for Scientific Research for 2015.
Mittal was instrumental in establishing the High Performance Computing (HPC) facility at IIT Kanpur and heads the National Wind Tunnel Facility.
•    Sanjay Mittal is a Professor of computational fluid dynamics in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT-Kanpur.
•    He completed his BTech from IIT Kanpur in 1988.
•    Thereafter, he got enrolled at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities for MS programme.
•    He received his PhD and worked as a Research Associate under Professor Tayfun E. Tezduyar.
•    Then, he worked at Army High Performance Computing Center for 2 years.
•    He returned to India and joined IIT Kanpur in 1994 as an Assistant Professor.
•    He is also a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology.
•    His most significant contribution has been in the area of Bluff Body Flows (flows past blunt bodies associated with large unsteady separation and leading to large fluid forces).
•    G D Birla Award for Scientific Research was instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation.
•    It was instituted in honour of the Indian philanthropist Ghanshyam Das Birla.
•    The award is given to an outstanding scientific research, mostly during the past 5 years, undertaken by an Indian scientist, who is below the age of 50, living and working in India.
•    The award is given every year and is available for all branches of science including medical science, basic and applied.
•    G D Birla Award for Scientific Research for 2014 was given to Sanjeev Galande.