Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Dr. Himanshu Tyagi is currently working as an
Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical,
Materials and Energy Engineering at IIT Ropar. He
has previously worked at the Steam Turbine Design
Division of Siemens (Germany and India) and at the
Thermal and Fluids Core Competency Group of Intel
Corp (USA). He received his Ph.D. from Arizona State
University, in the field of heat transfer and specifically
looked for the radiative and ignition properties of
nanofluids. He and his co-workers proposed the
concept of direct absorption solar collectors using
nanofluids which won the Best Paper Award at the
ASME Energy Sustainability Conference at Long
Beach, CA. He obtained his master’s degree from
University of Windsor, Canada, and his bachelor’s
from IIT Delhi, in Mechanical Engineering. At present,
he is working to develop nanotechnology-based clean
and sustainable energy sources with a team of several
Ph.D., postgraduate, and undergraduate students.
Among other awards, he has received Summer
Undergraduate Research Award (SURA) from IIT
Delhi, International Graduate Student Scholarship from
University of Windsor Canada, Indo-US Science and
Technology Forum (IUSSTF) grant awarded for organizing an Indo-US Workshop on ‘Recent Advances in
Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Applications in
Clean Energy Technologies’ at IIT Ropar.
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About the Editors
Dr. Himanshu Tyagi is currently working as an
Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical,
Materials and Energy Engineering at IIT Ropar. He
has previously worked at the Steam Turbine Design
Division of Siemens (Germany and India) and at the
Thermal and Fluids Core Competency Group of Intel
Corp (USA). He received his Ph.D. from Arizona State
University, in the field of heat transfer and specifically
looked for the radiative and ignition properties of
nanofluids. He and his co-workers proposed the
concept of direct absorption solar collectors using
nanofluids which won the Best Paper Award at the
ASME Energy Sustainability Conference at Long
Beach, CA. He obtained his master’s degree from
University of Windsor, Canada, and his bachelor’s
from IIT Delhi, in Mechanical Engineering. At present,
he is working to develop nanotechnology-based clean
and sustainable energy sources with a team of several
Ph.D., postgraduate, and undergraduate students.
Among other awards, he has received Summer
Undergraduate Research Award (SURA) from IIT
Delhi, International Graduate Student Scholarship from
University of Windsor Canada, Indo-US Science and
Technology Forum (IUSSTF) grant awarded for organizing an Indo-US Workshop on ‘Recent Advances in
Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Applications in
Clean Energy Technologies’ at IIT Ropar.
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