V ShankarV. Shankar is currently the Sajani Kumar Roy Chair Professor and Head, Department of Chemical
Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He obtained his B.Tech in Electrochemical Engineering from the Central
Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi, and hisMasters and PhD in Chemical Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. After a post-doctoral stint at the University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, he joined IIT Kanpur in 2002, where he currently leads a group working in
the general area of stability of fluid flows, with focus on fluids with complex rheology, and in flow
past deformable solid surfaces. His research group uses a combination of theory, computation and
experiments to understand and unravel new physical phenomena in such systems Read More Read Less