Dr. Saurabh Bhardwaj
Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Mechanics
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: saurabh.amd[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: -(O)
Other Academic Achievements
- Keynote Address/Invited Talks in Conferences & Workshops:
- Presented a TED Talk on "In silico optimization of targeted aerosol delivery in upper airways" in the Annual Faculty Retreat 2021 at Technion - IIT, Israel on 14th October 2021.
- Delivered an invited talk on the topic "In silico optimization of targeted aerosol delivery in upper airways" at 2nd International Conference on Innovations in Thermo-Fluid Engineering and Sciences (ICITFES – 2025), NIT Rourkela on 9th February 2025.
- Delivered an invited talk on the topic "In silico optimization of targeted aerosol delivery in upper airways" in the Faculty Development Program (FDP) on "Smart Health Innovation: Integrating Imaging, Sensors & Biomaterials”, held from 14th to 19th July 2025.
- Conferences Attended for Presenting Paper:
- Attended and presented paper (poster) in ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference, IIT Kharagpur, India; December 28-31, 2013.
- Attended and presented paper in 5th International and 41st National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, IIT Kanpur, India; December 12-14, 2014.
- Attended and presented paper in 5th International ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, January 3-6, 2016, Biopolis, Singapore.
- Attended and presented paper in 6th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, June 27-July, 2016, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
- Attended and presented paper in Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, October 12-15, 2022, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Attended and presented paper in Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference, June 4-8, 2023, Vail, Colorado, USA.
- Attended and presented poster with title "Modeling Blood Flow and Mean Arterial Pressure in Artificially Clotted Cerebral Vasculature in AIS" in the Symposium on Advanced Thermal and Fluid Sciences held at IIT Guwahati from 4th September 2025 to 5th September 2025.
- Award and Honors:
- Awarded "The PBC Fellowship for Outstanding Chinese and Indian Post-Doctoral Fellows" from the Government of Israel in March 2020.
- Awarded by The Honorable President of India for participating in "In-Residence Program for Scholars of IITs, IISERs and IISc-B 2016" at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi in June 2016.
- Awarded International Travel Support (ITS) from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for attending ASME 2016 Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer Conference at Singapore.
- Conferences/ Workshops/Symposium/ Short-term Courses Organized:
- Organized the Faculty Development Program (FDP) on "Smart Health Innovation: Integrating Imaging, Sensors & Biomaterials”, held from 14th to 19th July 2025 as Coordinator.
- On-going Projects:
- "In Silico Investigation of the Trans-Tracheostomal Retrograde Inhalation Technique in Contrast to Traditional Inhalation in Subglottal Stenosis Patients" funded by MNNIT Allahabad. Amount- INR 5 Lakh (2024-2025)
- “Patient-specific Hemodynamic Modelling of Intracranial Aneurysm associated with Arterial Spasm (Project ID: 5602, CST/D/Biotech-1288) funded by Counsil of Science and Technology, Uttar Pradesh. Amount- INR 8.5 Lakh (2025-2028)
- Overseas Assignments:
- Senior Researcher at Engineering Software Steyr GmbH, Austria (March, 2018 - June, 2019).
- Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technion Biofluids Laboratory, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. (August, 2019 - December, 2021)
- Postdoctoral Scholar at the Artificial Heart and Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA. (January, 2022 - September, 2023)
- Reviewer for Transactions / Journal / Conferences:
- Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal- Inderscience
- Chemical Engineering Science-Elsevier
- Ain Shams Engineering Journal-Elsevier
- ASME Journal of Heat Transfer
- Physics of Fluids-AIP
- Canadian Journal of Physics
- Interantional Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer-Elsevier
- International Journal of Ambient Energy - Taylor & Francis
- Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal-Elsevier
- ACS Nano - ACS Publications
- Acta Mechanica Sinica- Springer
- Clinical Biomechanics - Elsevier
- Aerosol Science & Technology - Taylor & Francis
- Journal of Biomechanics - Elsevier
- Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology - Springer
- Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids - Elsevier
- IHMTC-2021: 26th National and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference
- IHMTC-2019: 25th National and 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference
- FMFP-2020: 8th International and 47th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power
- ACS Omega - ACS Publications
- Molecular Pharmaceutics - ACS Publications
- Other Significant Achievements:
- Attended one-day workshop on "Grant Writing Project Proposal" Organized by Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, 211004 (U.P.) India on 6th December 2023.