Sushanta Mitra | |
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Born | India |
Academic background | |
Education | BS, 1995, Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University MS, 1997, Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria PhD, 2001, Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo |
Thesis | Breakup process of plane liquid sheets and prediction of initial droplet size and velocity distributions in sprays. (2001) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology York University University of Alberta |
Sushanta Kumar Mitra is a Canadian mechanical engineer. He is an elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,the Canadian Academy of Engineering,the Engineering Institute of Canada,Royal Society of Chemistry,the American Physical Society,the Electrochemical Society,and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Mitra was born in India to a physicist father. [1] He earned his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at Jadavpur University before traveling to Canada for his graduate degrees. Mitra enrolled at the University of Victoria for his Master's degree and the University of Waterloo for his PhD. [2]
Upon completing his formal education,Mitra joined the Department of Engineering faculty at the University of Alberta. In this role,he led a CMC project to coax microorganisms to convert coal into methane. As a result of his research,he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. [1]
In 2014,Mitra left the University of Alberta to become the Kaneff Professor in Micro and Nanotechnology for Social Innovation and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the Lassonde School of Engineering. [3] Upon joining the faculty,he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry [4] and Canadian Academy of Engineering. [5] He was later appointed the Associate Vice-President Research at York University. [6] While serving in these roles,Mitra and his research team conceived of a method of detecting E. coli in contaminated water within two to 60 minutes based on the level of contamination called the Mobile Water Kit. [7] In recognition of his research,he was the recipient of the 2015 Engineering Medal for Engineering Excellence [8] and named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). [9] He was appointed as the President of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. [10]
Mitra continued to advance the Mobile Water Kit and,in 2017,raised $50,000 in seed funding through his co-started startup Glacierclean Technologies Inc. to further develop and test the Mobile Water Kit 2.0. The improvements in the newest kit enabled individuals,municipalities,or industries to test water at the source and receive results within minutes. [11]
Mitra left York University in 2017 to become the executive director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology. In this role,he developed DipTest strips to test the contamination of water in less than three hours at a cost of 50 cents. [12] During the COVID-19 pandemic,Mitra helped develop a coating that would kill the COVID-19 virus immediately upon contact with any surface. His research team worked to quantify the adhesion force between the viral load and the coated surface. [13] His research team is also working on rapid detection of COVID-19. [14] He pioneered the liquid-liquid encapsulation technology,that led to the creation of a Dutch Start up,SLE Enterprises B.V. [15] Mitra started his second term as WIN's Executive Director in August 2022. [16]
York University,also known as YorkU or simply YU,is a public research university in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university,and it has approximately 53,500 students,7,000 faculty and staff,and over 375,000 alumni worldwide. It has 11 faculties,including the Lassonde School of Engineering,Schulich School of Business,Osgoode Hall Law School,Glendon College,and 32 research centres.
Polytechnique Montréal is a public research university affiliated with the Universitéde Montréal in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. The school offers graduate and postgraduate training,and is very active in research. Following tradition,new Bachelors of Engineering (B.Eng) graduating from Polytechnique Montréal receive an Iron Ring,during the Canadian Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer ceremony.
The Faculty of Engineering is one of six faculties at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo,Ontario,Canada. It has 8,698 undergraduate students,2176 graduate students,334 faculty and 52,750 alumni making it the largest engineering school in Canada with external research funding from 195 Canadian and international partners exceeding $86.8 million. Ranked among the top 50 engineering schools in the world,the faculty of engineering houses eight academic units and offers 15 bachelor's degree programs in a variety of disciplines.
Lorraine Code is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at York University in Toronto,Ontario,Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her principal area of research is feminist epistemology and the politics of knowledge.
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Suman Chakraborty is a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Sir J. C. Bose National Fellow. He has been the first in the history of IIT Kharagpur to be bestowed by the National Award for Teachers in the Higher Education Category by the honourable President of India. He is also Institute Chair Professor Awardee of 2023. He has served as the Dean,Research and Development,Associate Dean and the Head of the School of Medical Science and Technology of the Institute. He has also been National Academy of Engineering Chair Professor. He joined the Institute in 2002 as Assistant Professor and has been a Full Professor since 2008.
Pierre Lassonde is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
Janusz Kozinski is an academic administrator,researcher,and entrepreneur with expertise in sustainable energy systems and immune building concepts applied to public safety and security.
Jianhong Wu is a Canadian applied mathematician and the founding Director of the Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics at York University. He is also the inaugural Director of Y-EMERGE.
Ihab Francis Ilyas is a computer scientist who works in data science. He is currently a professor of computer science in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He also led the Knowledge Platform team at Apple Inc. Ihab is the holder of the Thomson Reuters-NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Data Cleaning at the University of Waterloo.
Dawn R. Bazely is a full professor in biology in the Faculty of Science,and the former Director of the Institute for Research Innovation in Sustainability,at York University in Canada. In 2015 she was awarded the title of University Professor for services to research,teaching,and the institution. Bazely has been a field biologist for forty years and her research specializes in plant-animal interactions in ecology. She has also been recognized for her science communication.
Rebecca Rita Elizabeth Riddell (née Pillai) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a basic-behavioural scientist. She is a full professor at York University and Tier 2 York Research Chair in Pain and Mental Health.
Jonathan Charles Edmondson is a British-born historian. He holds Full Professor and Distinguished Research Professorship status at York University and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Claudette MacKay-Lassonde was a Canadian engineer who became the first woman president of the Professional Engineers Ontario.
Joel D. Katz is a Canadian psychologist and researcher. He is a Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Psychology at York University. He also serves as the Research Director of the Pain Research Unit in the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management at the Toronto General Hospital and is a professor in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto.
Robert Andrzej Varin is a Polish-Canadian scientist,Professor of technical sciences,specialist of materials science and engineering.
Vivek Goel is the current President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waterloo. As a physician and public health researcher,he was also a university administrator,and served as a special advisor to the president and provost of the University of Toronto,and as a professor for the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He is recognized in Canada and internationally as a public health researcher and expert in health-services evaluation. He has been an advocate for the use of research evidence in health policy-making.
R. Paul Young, FREng,FRSC,is a geophysicist and Professor who works in rock mechanics using induced seismicity to monitor fractures and rock damage for engineering applications in mining and radioactive waste management.
Janusz Boleslaw Pawliszyn is a Polish chemist. He is a Canada Research Chair at the University of Waterloo and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Chair in New Analytical Methods and Technologies.
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