July 2017: Dr. Kumar is now an Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Alberta’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.
May 2017: Kumar Lab moves to Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Stay tuned for more updates.
March 2017: Follow Dr. Kumar’s essay on his blog: http://shastra-artha.blogspot.com/
February 2017: Dr. Kumar becomes a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University.
January 2017: Zahra Nikakhtari, an undergraduate researcher with the Kumar Lab, won the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship (QES). She will be travelling to University of Leeds in summer 2017 to conduct research. Congratulations and good luck Zahra.
January 2017: Mahtab Hassanpourfard successfully defends her thesis and becomes the first PhD student from the Kumar Group. Mahtab’s work focused on bacterial streamer formation in the presence of low Reynolds number flows. Congratulations Mahtab … err Dr. Hassanpourfard.
November 2016: Swayamdipta wins the first prize in the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition jointly organized by the National Research Council (NRC) and the University of Alberta Nano-group (UofANano) at the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT). Congratulations Swayamdipta
October 2016: Dr. Kumar gives an invited talk at the Earth and Environmental Engineering Department at Columbia University.
October 2016: Mahtab’s paper is selected to appear as a back cover of the RSC journal Lab-on-chip. Watch out for the cover art image !