Promode R. Bandyopadhyay is an Indian born American inventor, research scientist and Technical Program Manager at the

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, Newport,

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, USA. He was a Program Officer at the Cognitive, Neural and Biomolecular Science and Technology Division of the Human Systems Science and Technology Department of the Office of Naval Research (2000–2002). He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Cambridge University Engineering Department and University of Houston. He is a Fellow of the

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(ASME), a Fellow of

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, an associate fellow of the

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(AIAA), a Member of the

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(IEEE), and a Life Member of the

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(APS). He currently holds 17 approved U.S.

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s and more than 5 pending U.S. Patents. He is also an author at SPIE.

Education and career

He holds bachelor's degree from the

Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College The Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, abbreviated as JGEC, is an autonomous college, owned fully by Government of West Bengal, and affiliated to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology. The courses conducted by JGEC have the ...

(Formerly affiliated to

University of North Bengal University of North Bengal (abbreviated as NBU) is a public state collegiate major research university in North Bengal region of West Bengal, which is located in Raja Rammohanpur, Siliguri, Darjeeling district, in the Indian state of West Be ...

) (1968), master's degree from

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST Shibpur), erstwhile Bengal Engineering College (also known as B.E. College), formerly Bengal Engineering and Science University (also known as BESU), is a public research u ...

(1970) and doctorate degrees from the

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(1978) and

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 ...

(1974). He is currently a senior research scientist at the

, Newport, Rhode Island, US. He was a program officer at the Cognitive, Neural and Biomolecular Science and Technology Division of the Human Systems Science and Technology Department, U.S. Office of Naval Research (2000–2002). He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Engineering Department,

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and the

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, Houston, TX, US. He was an adjunct professor at the

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department of

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, and the

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department of the

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. He has supervised postdoctorates and co-supervised MS theses. Several professors from

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and

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have worked with him as Visiting Summer Faculties. He was an associate editor of the ''ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering'' and ''AIAA Journal'', and a guest editor of the ''IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering''. Currently, he is a member of the editorial board of ''Scientific Reports''.

Inventions and research

He holds 17 patents, has written 7 review and over 60 journal articles, four of which are cited in 12 text books. He has been cited by over 3331 against 172 publications/papers till date. Quite notably, one of his papers titled 'New aspects of turbulent boundary-layer structure' (1981) has been cited by over 800 till date and another paper titled 'Trends in biorobotic autonomous undersea vehicles' (2005) has been cited by over 329 till date. Dr. Bandyopadhyay leads a multi-disciplinary engineering group in mentoring and bridging of biological sciences and naval engineering. His efforts have led to the maturing of sciences into emergent technologies such as Flapping Fin Propulsion Technology, Microbial Fuel Cells for littoral powering of instruments, and the demonstration of underwater propulsion using olivo-cerebellar dynamic controllers. He led the US-Russia-UK research team on compliant coating drag reduction. His Cambridge work (with M R Head)—known worldwide as a classic experiment—clearly showed the preponderance of hairpin vortices in turbulent boundary layers and the Reynolds number thinning effects. His inventions include High Speed Underwater Data Transmission Method, Photo-receptor for electro-magnetic radiation collection, and 15 other inventions.

Awards and honors

* ASME Fluids Engineering Division 90th Anniversary Commemorative Special Medal 2016. * ASME Fluids Engineering Award 2015. * Top Navy Scientist Award 2006. * ASME Freeman Scholar Award 2006. * 2006 Naval Sea Systems Command Division Newport Excellence in Science Award. * NASA Technology Utilization & Application Award 1993.

References

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bandyopadhyay, Promode R. Living people Alumni of the University of Cambridge IIT Madras alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Scientists from West Bengal People from Jalpaiguri People from Jalpaiguri district