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, turbulence, and nonlinear dynamics. Verma earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras 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 Cray HPC award, which honors high-performance computing contributions from India, in 2018.[1][2] He is also an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy[3] and the Indian Academy of Sciences.[4]
Mahendra Kumar Verma | |
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| Born | 27 May 1966 (age 58) |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Madras (B.Tech. 1988), University of Maryland, College Park (Ph.D. 1994) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Turbulence, fluid mechanics |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
| Thesis | Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence models of solar wind evolution (1994) |
| Website | https://sites.google.com/view/mahendra-verma/ |
References
edit- ^ "Mahendra K. Verma". Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ "2nd Annual Awards Honor HPC Contributions in India". Cray Inc. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^ "Fellows Elected 2019" (PDF). Indian National Science Academy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ "Fellow Profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 23 April 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
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