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

  • 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.