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Biosketch - Muthukumar

Prof. P. Muthukumar is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati. He received his PhD from IIT Madras in 2005 and has since held positions at IIT Guwahati and IIT Tirupati. His research interests include sorption heating and cooling systems, hydrogen energy storage, and coupled heat and mass transfer in porous media. He has published over 350 research articles, authored and edited books, supervised many graduate students, and led research projects worth over 650 lakhs. He has received several prestigious awards and fellowships for his contributions to thermal science and engineering.

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Biosketch - Muthukumar

Prof. P. Muthukumar is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati. He received his PhD from IIT Madras in 2005 and has since held positions at IIT Guwahati and IIT Tirupati. His research interests include sorption heating and cooling systems, hydrogen energy storage, and coupled heat and mass transfer in porous media. He has published over 350 research articles, authored and edited books, supervised many graduate students, and led research projects worth over 650 lakhs. He has received several prestigious awards and fellowships for his contributions to thermal science and engineering.

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Prof. P.

Muthukumar
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati.
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
https://www.iitg.ac.in/pmkumar/

Biosketch/Research Interest
Prof. P. Muthukumar received PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras during
2005. He joined at IIT Guwahati as Assistant Professor in January 2006 and became Professor in
January 2015. He joined at IIT Tirupati as Professor in Mechanical Engineering on 25th May 2022.
He received DAAD research fellowships during September – December 2000, June-July 2008, and
June - July 2010. He is the recipient of IEI Young Engineer Award - 2010 in Mechanical Engineering
from Institute of Engineers (India). He received Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy Fellowship
(BASE Fellowship) from Indo - U.S. Science and Technology Forum (USIEF), Jan 2014 and also
received Er. M.P. Baya National Award 2015 from Instituted by the Institution of Engineers
(India), Udaipur. He is also the Fellow of Institute of Engineers (India). He is one of the
Commission Member to represent India in the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR). He
also received Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship from (USIEF) in
2018. He has served as the President, Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air
Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE), Guwahati sub-chapter. He also received “Mechanical
Engineering Design Award 2017, from National Design & Research Forum (NDRF) of “The
Institution of Engineers (India)”, on 21st Dec 2017. During 2019, he was honoured as Eminent
Engineer -2019 from “The Institution of Engineers (India)”, Assam State Centre. In 2020, he
appeared in the World’s Top 2 % Scientist published by Stanford University, USA report. He has
won BIRAC-Innovation Challenge Award-SoCH 2020-21 for stage – 1 and stage – 2. He was
honoured with an award of Outstanding Engineering service to country by the Institution of
Engineers (India), Rajasthan state centre on 15th September 2021. To recognise his outstanding
contributions in the field of Thermal Science and Energy Technology as well as his contribution in
the growth of the country’s engineering profession, recently, he has been awarded for the
prestigious “Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship 2021”. He served as
visiting Professor in many Universities from the USA and Germany and also having research
collaborations with over 25 International Universities.

He has been published around 350 research articles in various International Journals and
conference proceedings, edited four books and written 16 book chapters. He is having 12
national patents for his credit. He has served as guest editor in 3 elsevier Journal special issues.
He has supervised 24 PhD, 65 M.Tech and 5 MS student’s theses. He has successfully completed
10 sponsored research projects worth of 650 lakhs and five consultancy projects worth of 75
lakhs. Currently he is handling 7 research projects worth of 1200 lakhs. He is the reviewer of more
than 75 International Journals in the area of hydrogen energy, energy storage, refrigeration, heat
transfer, etc. and also reviewed several research proposals from DST, MNRE, Qatar Research
Board, etc. He has been serving as expert member in several ministries including DST, MHRD,
Ministry Oil and Natural Gas, Ministry of External Affair, etc for research project funding and
monitoring. He is also expert / steering committee member in BIS, AICTE, NAAC and many other
professor organizations. His area of research includes sorption heating and cooling systems,
hydrogen energy storage, metal hydride based thermal machines, coupled heat and mass
transfer in porous medium, porous medium combustion, etc.

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