“The greatest satisfaction is to convert abstract ideas into tangible products for impacting lives.”
Co-Founder: Thermascape Technologies; Advanced nanoFLUIDS; 2 ICorps; 16 Patents;
Professor of Mechanical Engineering [MEEN], Texas A&M University (TAMU);
Professor of Petroleum Engineering [PETE] (Joint Courtesy Appointment);
Fellow, Engineering Medicine Program [ENMED];
Faculty, Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine [COM];
Faculty Fellow, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center [MKOPSC];
Faculty Affiliate, Gas & Fuels Research Center [GFRC];
Affiliate Faculty, Energy Institute [EI];
James J. Cain ’51 Faculty Fellow I, College of Engineering [COE];
Member (Elected) of the Executive Committee [EC] of the Faculty Senate at TAMU;
Member (Elected) to the Council of Principal Investigators [CPI] of the Faculty Senate at TAMU;
Fellow, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers);
Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer [JHT].
Email: dbanerjee@tamu.edu;
Debjyoti Banerjee ("Deb", "DJ") received 16 US patents from his prior product development and commercialization efforts as an ASEE Faculty Fellow at the Advanced Technology Branch of SPAWAR (Space and Naval Warfare Center), AFRL (Air Force Research Labs.), Applied Biosystems (a.k.a., Life Technologies), NanoInk, Ciphergen Biosystems, Coventor, Tata (India) and TAMU. He is a Fellow of the Engineering Medicine Program (ENMED) at Texas A&M University (TAMU) and was elected as a Fellow of ASME in 2016. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (with minor in MEMS) in 1999 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He joined TAMU as an assistant professor in 2005 and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2011 and as professor in 2015.
His product development and commercialization interests focus on thermal-fluids engineering with emphasis on multiphase flows (desalination, boiling, condensation) for energy conservation/ energy conversion, MEMS, bio-microfluidics/nanofluidics (lab-on-chip), bio-nanotechnology (Dip-Pen Nanolithography/DPN, explosives sensing using nanocalorimetry (nano-nose), Step-Flash-Imprint nano-Lithography/SFIL) and renewable energy (solar thermal energy storage using nanofluids).
At Texas A&M his sponsored research projects (with academic and industrial collaborators) exceeds $22 million, enabling 17 PhD and 21 MS students to graduate under his supervision, yielding more than 150 archival publications.
He received various awards: “Amlan-Sen Best Mechanical Engineering Student Award (Endowment)”, “J.C. Bose National Science Talent Scholar”, “ASME-HTD Best Paper Award (2001)”, “TEES Select Young Faculty Award (2009)”. He was selected as “ASEE/AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellow” at AFRL (2006, 2007; Propulsion Directorate) and “ASEE/ONR Summer Faculty Fellow” at SPAWAR (2009; Advanced Technology Branch). He is an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.
He co-founded Thermascape Technologies Inc. (TTI) which won the 5th Prize (overall category), the “Amerra Visualization Prize” and the “AM Innovation Center Prize” at the Texas New Ventures Competition 2017.
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