Plenary Talks
1. Electroosmotic Transport in Soft Nanochannels (Award Talk for the AES Electrophoretic Society Mid-Career Award; SciX Conference, Reno, NV, October 7, 2026) (Scheduled)
Keynote Talks
7. Electrokinetics in Functionalized Nanochannels (7th International Conference on Applications of Fluid Dynamics, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, India, 15-18 December, 2026) (Scheduled)
6. Probing Polyelectrolyte Brushes via Atomistic and Electronic Simulations and Machine Learning (1st International (7th National) Conference On Recent Advances in Physical Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand, India, 6-8 February, 2026).
5. Exploration of Polyelectrolyte Brushes via Atomistic Simulations and Machine Learning (Advanced Materials Lecture (Online Presentation) 65th Assembly, Advanced Materials Congress, European Fellow Summit, 18-20 August, 2025, Stockholm, Sweden).
4. Interactions between Nanoparticles and Soft-Matter-Liquid Interfaces: Towards Developing Generic Nanocomposites, Conductive Inks with Low Sintering Temperatures, and Droplet-Based Cargo Transfer Mechanisms (99th ACS Colloids & Surface Science Symposium, June 22-26, 2025, Edmonton, Canada).
3. Molecular Description of Polyelectrolyte Brushes (Polymers-2023 Conference; Online Presentation; October 30-31, 2023).
2. Water and Ion Transport in Nanocellulose: Capillary Physics and Electrohydrodynamics in Hierarchical Micro-Nanochannels (Sustainable Materials Research Summit (SMART), August 7 – August 9, 2002, Vancouver, Canada)
1. All-atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polyelectrolyte Brushes (Vebleo Online Webinar on Science, Engineering and Technology on September 29, 2021).
Invited Talks
36. Electroosmotic Transport in Soft Nanochannels Probed Using Atomistic Simulations and Machine Learning” (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, April 7, 2026). Video Link of the Talk (Part 1); Video Link of the Talk (Part 2).
35. Probing Polyelectrolyte Brushes via Atomistic and Electronic Simulations and Machine Learning (Department of Chemistry, George Mason University, February 20, 2026).
34. Soft and Active Interfaces: Enhanced Liquid Flows in Polymer-functionalized Nanochannels, Self-Assembly via Active Drops, and Reduced Conductivity of Printed Nanoparticle Traces (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Catholic University of America, November 1, 2024).
33. Soft and Active Interfaces: Enhanced Liquid Flows in Polymer-Functionalized Nanochannels, Self-Assembly via Active Drops, and Reduced Conductivity of Printed Nanoparticle Traces” (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Buffalo, March 28, 2024).
32. Soft and Active Interfaces: From Polymer-Grafted Nanochannels for Enhanced Liquid Flows to Self-Assembly via Active Drops (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur on January 9, 2024).
31. Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Water and Ion Transport in Nanocellulose (ACS Spring 2022, March 20 – March 24, 2022, San Diego, California, USA).
30. Mutliscale Simulations for Optimizing Materials and Processes for Additive Manufacturing (Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering and Sciences webinar series on March 4, 2022).
29. Electrokinetic Transport in Polyelectrolyte-Brush Functionalized Nanochannels: An All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Exploration (Complex Fluids 2021 organized by Indian Society of Rheology and Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India, December 13-15, 2021).
28. Ionics and Electroosmosis at Polyelectrolyte-Brush-Functionalized Interfaces (Delivered in the Fluids and Waves seminar of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), March 2021) Video Link of the Talk
27. Title: Computational Thermo-Fluidics for Modeling the Aerosol Jet 3D Printing (Delivered in the AICTE Sponsored Faculty Development Program on Fundamental and Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Fluid-Thermal Systems, NIT Silchar, India, March 14, 2021) Video Link of the Talk
26. Ionics and Liquid Transport at Polyelectrolyte-Brush-Functionalized Interfaces (Purdue University, ECS Chapter Fall 2020 Webinar Series, October 12, 2020).
25. Structure, Energetics, and Protein Sensing of Curved Lipid Bilayer Systems (Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering (a Virtual Conference), June 27, 2020).
24. Water and Ion Transport in Micro-Nanochannels: Wood and Beyond (1st Advanced Wood Nanotechnology Workshop, November 8, 2019, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA).
23. Microfluidic Cantilever Spectroscopy Sensors (Nanotech 2019 Conference and Expo (Session: Micro & Bio Fluidics, Lab-On-Chip), June 17 – June 19, 2019, Boston, Massachusetts, USA).
22. Diffusioosmotic and Thermoosmotic Transport in Nanochannels Grafted with End-Charged Polyelectrolyte Brushes: Continuum Calculations and Molecular Dynamics Simulations (Symposium on Multiscale Modeling of Soft Materials and Interfaces at the 2018 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting and Exhibit, November 25 – November 30, 2018, Massachusetts, USA).
23. Water at Nanoscale Interfaces (Annual Burger Symposium, November 14, 2018, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA).
22. 3D-Printed Electronics (Intelligent Automation, Inc. (a small business organization), Bethesda, Maryland, USA on November 2, 2018).
21. Modeling Transport in Microfluidic Systems: Towards Better Equipping Ourselves for Solving Biomedical Engineering Problems (United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA on June 28, 2018).
20. Title: Water and Ions at Nanoscopic Interfaces: From 2-D Materials to Plasma Membranes (Delivered in the Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Canada, April 2018) Video Link of the Talk
19. Liquid at Complex Interfaces (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA on February 22, 2018).
18. Liquid-Complex-Solid Interfaces (Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA on November 28, 2016).
17. Thermodynamics, Fluidics, and Transport in Soft, Micronanoscale Systems: Biophysical and Bioengineering Applications (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA on December 17, 2015).
16. Thermodynamics, Transport, and Adhesion at Soft, Charged Interfaces” (2015 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November 29 – December 4, 2015).
15. Wetting and Electrohydrodynamics of Soft Surfaces (Fluid Dynamics Review Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA on April 24, 2015).
14. Wetting and Electrohydrodynamics of Soft surfaces (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA on March 31, 2015).
13. Micro/nano-scale Transport and Applications (Canada-India Collaboration in Nano Science and Technology in National Institute of Nanotechnology (NINT), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on May 10, 2013).
12. Soft Capillarity and Wetting (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA on April 25, 2013).
11. Fluidics in Micro-Nanoscales: Applications in Energy and Biological Systems (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on February 28, 2013).
10. Fluidics at Micro-nanoscales: Soft Capillarity, Superoleophobicity and Bio-Electrohydrodynamics (Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Science (SNBNCBS), Kolkata, India on February 1, 2013).
9. Fluidics at Micro-Nanoscales: Soft Capillarity, Superoleophobicity and Bio-Electrohydrodynamics (Engineering Mechanics Units (EMU), Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) Bangalore, India on January 30, 2013).
8. Fluidics at Micro-nanoscales: Soft Capillarity, Superoleophobicity and Bio-Electrohydrodynamics (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India on January 29, 2013).
7. Soft Wetting at Micro-Nanoscales (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India on January 16, 2013).
6. Fluidics at Micro-Nanoscales: Soft Capillarity, Superoleophobicity and Bio-Electrohydrodynamics (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, on October 19, 2012).
5. Fluidics at Micro-Nanoscales: Soft Capillarity, Superoleophobicity and Bio-Electrohydrodynamics (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada on October 18, 2012).
4. Electrohydrodynamics and Elastocapillary at Nanoscales (Centre of Smart Interfaces, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany on April 6, 2011).
3. Some Issues of Electrohydrodynamics in Nanoscale (Chair, Physics of Fluids, University of Twente, the Netherlands on November 30, 2009).
2. Electroviscous Effects in Narrow Fluidic Confinements (IISc Centenary International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (IC-ICAME), held at Bangalore, India (July, 2008)).
1. Combined Pressure-Driven and Electroosmotic Microchannel Transport for Enhanced DNA Hybridization (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, USA (August, 2006)).