Ankur Gupta
- Assistant Professor
- CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
- MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PROGRAM
Education
- BS, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, 2012
- MS, Chemical Engineering Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2014
- PhD, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2017
Awards
- Chemical and Engineering News, Talented 12 (2025)
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Young Investigator Award (2025)
- College of Engineering and Applied Science John and Mercedes Peebles Innovation in Education Award (2024)
- Johannes Lyklema Early Career Award in Electrokinetics (2024)
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award (student-voted 2024; faculty-voted 2023)
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Graduate Teaching Award, (student-voted 2024, 23, 22, 21; faculty-voted 2022)
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers "35 Under 35" award (2023)
- NSF CAREER Award (2023)
- Soft Matter Emerging Investigator, RSC Journals (2023)
- Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Alumni Award, IIT Delhi (2022)
- CU Next Award for Innovation in Teaching (2022)
- ACS Petroleum Research Fund, Doctoral New Investigator (2022)
- Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Riser (2022)
- Publons Peer-review Award for placing in top 1 percent of reviewers (2018)
- Hugh Hampton Young Fellow, MIT (2016-17)
- Individual Citation Award for Teaching and Outreach, MIT (2017)
- Dow Travel Award, 2016 Annual AIChE Meeting (2017)
- Presidents' Gold Medal, IIT Delhi (2012)
Research Interests
Transport phenomena, Soft Matter, Microhydrodynamics, Electrokinetics, Energy Storage, Desalination, Lab-on-a-chip.