Sanjay Mittal is a Professor of

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in the Department of

Aerospace Engineering Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...

at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,

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.Sanjay Mittal
at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Early life and education

After doing his B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur in 1988, he got enrolled at

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for M.S. program. He then received his Ph.D. and worked as a research associate under

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Career

After working for two years at Army High Performance Computing center he returned to India and joined IIT Kanpur in the year of 1994 as an assistant professor.

Awards

Mittal has been the recipient of various awards. * 2006 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology * 2015 G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research

References

Indian aerospace engineers IIT Kanpur alumni Computational fluid dynamicists Academic staff of IIT Kanpur IIT Kanpur Living people University of Minnesota alumni Indian fluid dynamicists Year of birth missing (living people) Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science {{India-academic-bio-stub