Mahendra Kumar Verma (born 27 May 1966) is an Indian physicist and professor at the
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur who works on
fluid dynamics
In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids— liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including ''aerodynamics'' (the study of air and other gases in motion) an ...
,
turbulence, and
nonlinear dynamics. Verma earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from the
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has be ...
in 1988, and a Ph.D. in physics from the
University of Maryland, College Park in 1994. He was awarded the Swarnajayanti Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology,
Government of India in 2006, and the
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (; 15 October 193127 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied phy ...
Cray
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HPC award, which honors high-performance computing contributions from India, in 2018. He is also an elected fellow of the
Indian National Science Academy and the
Indian Academy of Sciences.
References
Living people
21st-century Indian physicists
Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
1966 births
Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
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