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Faculty Director

Siddhartha Das, PhD, FRSC, FInstP, FIET

Professor (August 23, 2024 – onwards)

Associate Professor (from August 23, 2019 – August 22, 2024)

Assistant Professor (March 1, 2014 to August 22, 2019)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park

2181 Glenn L. Martin Hall
301-405-6633
sidd@umd.edu

Curriculum Vitae (Updated: October, 2022)

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Dr. Siddhartha Das joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park in March, 2014. Dr. Das received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2010 in the area of theoretical microfluidics. Following his Ph.D., Dr. Das joined the Physics of Fluids Group in University of Twente, the Netherlands as a Postdoc and worked on surface nanobubbles, capillarity and soft wetting. After his stint in the Netherlands, Dr. Das went for his second Postdoc in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada. In Alberta, Dr. Das was honored with the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, the most prestigious postdoctoral fellowship of Canada.

Dr. Das’ research interests span different areas of micro-nanoscale and interfacial fluid mechanics, interactions of soft matter with fluid mechanics, and computational biology, chemistry, and materials sciences. He is particularly interested in understanding issues such as the wetting of a soft solid, flows in functionalized nanochannels, interactions of water with nanostructured 2D materials, behavior of ions at air-water interfaces, computaional modeling of DNA and membrane biophysics, membrane-nanoparticle interactions, and thermofluidics and materials science of 3D printing.

Dr. Das has been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades including (a) Being Elected as Fellows to different organizations (Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K.; Institute of Physics, U.K.; Institution of Engineering Technology), (b) Top 2% scientists in the Stanford University list (years: 2021, 2022, 2023) (c) Soft Matter Emerging Investigator, (d) Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award of the Clark School, UMD, (e) Emerging Investigators of PCCP for several years, (f) multiple awards and recognitions from the University of Maryland, (g) IIT Kharagpur 2018 Young Alumni Achiever Award, (h) Hind Rattan Award, (i) Editorial Board membership of the journal Scientific Reports and Physics of Fluids, and many more.

As of October 2023, Dr. Das has authored 180 journal publications, including publications in journals like Nature Materials, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, ACS Nano, Macromolecules, Applied Physics Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Matter, Nucleic Acids Research, Physical Review E, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physics of Fluids, Langmuir, Soft Matter, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Applied Physics, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Chemical Communications, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Journal of Physical Chemistry B/C, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, and Scientific Reports.

Awards, Fellowships, and Recognitions

• Included in the Stanford University list of world’s top 2% scientists based on the citations for the year 2023 [The rank is 86,554 (without self-citations) and 90,618 (with self-citations). The rank is 1101 among 106,831 researchers in the sub-field of Chemical Physics (2024).
• Recognized as Pioneering Investigator by ChemComm journal. Invited to submit an article for ChemComm Pionnering Investigators Collection 2023. (2023). Link to the CVs of the recipients: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CC90213K
• Included in the Stanford University list of world’s top 2% scientists based on the citations for the year 2022 [The rank is 63,032 (with self-citations) and 68,951 (without self-citations). The rank is 878 among 100,804 researchers in the sub-field of Chemical Physics (2023).
• Invited to Contribute to the Special Issue “The Future of Lab-on-a-chip-Devices: An Early Career Scientists’ Perspective” of Frontiers in Sensors journal (2023).
• Appointed as the Editorial Advisory Board Member of the journal Physics of Fluids (2023)
• Included in the Stanford University list of world’s top 2% scientists based on the citations for the year 2021 [The rank is 67,534 (with self-citations) and 82,069 (without self-citations). The rank is 938 among 90,869 researchers in the sub-field of Chemical Physics.] (2022)
• Recognized with six journal papers being identified by the Web of Science as ESI highly cited papers in the last 5 years (2022).
• Fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K. (2022)
• Recognized as a Soft Matter Emerging Investigator (this recognition is associated with the invitation to submit a paper for the  Emerging Investigator collections of the Soft Matter journal) (2022) (See the Related Interview Published by Soft Matter) (News About this award: ENME Website; Clark School Website)
• 2021 Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award of the Clark School, UMD (2021)
• Included in the Stanford University list of world’s top 2% scientists based on the citations for the year 2020 [The rank is 46,179 (with self-citations) and 60,027 (without self-citations). The ranking is 777 (with self-citations) among 92,378 researchers in the sub-field of Chemical Physics] (2021)
• VEBLEO Fellow (2021)
• Selected for invitation to the 2021 Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Emerging Investigators Themed Issue (2021)
• Fellow, Institute of Physics, U.K. (2021) (News about this award: ENME Website; Clark School Website)
• Selected in UMD Research Leaders Fellows Program (2020) (News about this award: MarylandToday)
• Honoree at University of Maryland’s Maryland Research Excellence Celebration (2020)
• Selected for invitation to the inaugural Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Emerging Investigators Themed Issue (2019)
• Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (2019) (News about this award: ENME Website)
• Honoree at University of Maryland’s Inaugural Maryland Research Excellence Celebration (2019)
• Hind Rattan Award (Hindi Phrase when translated to English means “Jewel of India”) by NRI Welfare Society of India (Prof. Das has been selected to receive the award in a function in Bangalore, India on January 9, 2019 for his “Outstanding services, contributions and achievements” in his professional field. This award is one of the highest Indian diasporic awards granted annually to non-resident persons of Indian origin (NRIs)) (2019)
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP) Young Alumni Achiever Awards 2018 (These awards started by IITKGP in 2018 “recognize alumni age 40 or younger who have demonstrated emerging and unique innovation, creativity and success in his or her chosen career.”) (2018)
• Selection as Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (a journal of the Nature Publishing Group) (2017) (News about this award: ENME Website)
• Recognized as the Outstanding Reviewer for the journal International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics (2015)
• Honoree in 8^th Annual University-Wide Celebration of Scholarship and Research (University of Maryland, College Park) (2015)
• Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011-2012)
• Emerald Engineering Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards
• High Value Ph.D. Fellowship, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
• National Doctoral Fellowship, All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE)
• Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Innovative Students Project Award (Undergraduate Level)
• S.P. Sengupta Memorial Award, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India

Affiliate Appointments

Center Affiliation

• CALCE

SMIEL Group (Spring, 2023)

SMIEL Group (Spring, 2019)

SMIEL Group (Fall, 2018)

SMIEL Group (Fall, 2016)

Summary of the Numbers (Completed): Number of Postdocs Advised: 7; Number of Ph.D. Students Graduated: 11; Number of M.S. Students Graduated: 5; Total number of Faculty Placements: 3

Summary of the Numbers (Current): Number of Ph.D. Students: 1; Number of Ph.D. Students: 6; Number of M.S. Students: 1

Postdoctoral Researchers (Current)

Mennatallah El Kashouty (Started Summer 2024)

Dr. Mennatallah El Kashouty received her Ph. D in Manufacturing Engineering from Lancaster University, UK in 2020. Her research work was directed towards investigating the life of Selective Laser Melting (SLM) tooling inserts for high volumes of production for the aftermarket automotive sector. Following her Ph.D, Dr. El Kashouty worked as an assistant professor at the department of Industrial and Management Engineering, AASTMT, Egypt where she had completed her M.Sc. and B.Sc. and gained over fourteen years of experience in the academic and industrial fields of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering. Dr. El Kashouty’s research interests are widespread in the area of additive manufacturing and advanced manufacturing systems, particularly in relevance to the technology’s design and industrial applications. Dr. El Kashouty was a founding member of the Advanced Manufacturing Techniques Research Group at the department of Industrial and
Management Engineering, AASTMT, Egypt. Her research in SMIEL will be centered around the reliability of 3D printing of electronics in vehicle lighting systems, with a specific focus on printing OLED for vehicle headlights.

PhD Students (Current)

Rafsan Subad (Started Fall 2023)

Rafsan Subad completed his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (2022) and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2018) respectively. His research in the group will involve experiments on the behavior of active droplets, as well as the fabrication and reliability testing of printed electronics.

Tanmay Sarkar Akash (Started Fall 2022)

Swarup Kumar Subudhi (Started Spring 2022)

Swarup received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2016 from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He gained professional experience in Tata Motors for 4 years. He joined SMIEL as an MS student in Spring 2021. After that he converted to a Ph.D. student in Spring 2022. His research involves fabrication of printable soft magnetic materials, experiments on magnetic drops, and reliability testing of printed electronics.

Ghansham Chandel (Started Fall 2021)

Ghansham Chandel have completed his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2021​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​. His work in the SMIEL group will be focus on CFD modeling of Aerosol Jet Printing and ab-initio molecular dynamics and machine-learning enabled molecular dynamics of nanoscale and sub-nanoscopic systems.

Raashiq Ishraaq (Started Fall 2021)

Raashiq graduated from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2019 with a BSc in mechanical engineering. Raashiq’s research in SMIEL will be focused on polyelectrolyte brushes, coacervates and aerosol jet printing.

Mihirkumar Prajapati (Started Spring 2021)

Mihirkumar completed his BTech in Mechanical Engineering along with MTech in Thermal Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) under the Integrated Dual Degree (IDD) program in 2020. His research in SMIEL will focus on developing CD analysis of thermo-fluidics in 3D printing and 3D printable inks and experiments to to probe the fabrication, properties, and applications of novel and existing nanoparticulate inks.

MS Students (Current)

Arka Bera (Started Fall 2022)

Arka completed his B.S. from NIT, Durgapur, India. At SMIEL, he will work on the use of Machine Learning for understanding the behavior of polyelectrolyte brushes

Undergraduate Students

Alumni

Faculty Placements

1. Guang Chen (Postdoc in SMIEL from Feb. 2017 to Feb. 2018; Ph.D. in SMIEL from Aug. 2014 to Jan. 2017)

First Faculty Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, China (Start Date: March, 2021) (Webpage)

2. Chenglin Yi (Postdoc in SMIEL from Dec. 2018 to Nov. 2020)

First Faculty Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Mechanical Engineering Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China (Start Date: February, 2021)

3. Enrique Wagemann (Postdoc co-advised by Prof. Das from Mar. 2019 to Feb. 2020)

First Faculty Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica) at Universidad de Concepción, Chile (Start Date: February, 2020)

Postdocs

7. Dr. Turash Haque Pial (June, 2022 — July, 2022)

First Position After Leaving the Group: Employed as a Postdoc in the group of Prof. Monica Olvera de la Cruz in Northwestern University

Current Placement of the Postdoc (if known): Same as the first placement

6. Dr. Xiao Zhang (April, 2021 — August, 2022)

First Position After Leaving the Group: Employed as a Postdoc in the Johns Hopkins University

Current Placement of the Postdoc (if known): Same as the first placement

5. Yanbin Wang (January, 2020 — December, 2020)

First Position After Leaving the Group: Employed as a Postdoc in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University working with Prof. Tian Li

Current Placement of the Postdoc (if known): Same as the first placement

4. Chenglin Yi (December, 2018 — November, 2020)

First Position After Leaving the Group: Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), China

Current Placement of the Postdoc (if known): Same as the first placement

3. Enrique Wagemann (March, 2019 — February, 2020)

First Position After Leaving the Group: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica) at Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Current Placement of the Postdoc (if known): Same as the first placement

2. Yuan Gu (October, 2016 — November, 2018)

First Position After Leaving the Group: Industry (Electronic Inks)

Current Placement of the Postdoc (if known): Same as the first placement

1. Guang Chen (February, 2017 — February, 2018)

First Position After Leaving the Group: Postdoc, Princeton University (Advisor, Howard Stone)

Current Placement of the Postdoc (if known): Assistant Professor, Department of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, China (Start Date: March, 2021)

PhD Students

11. Vishal Sankar Sivasankar (August 2020 — May, 2023 )

Thesis Title: SIMULATION OF POLYMERIC DROP DYNAMICS: EFFECT OF PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION, IMPACT VELOCITY, AND MULTI-MATERIAL COALESCENCE

First Position After Leaving the Group: Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri 

Current Placement of the Student (if known): Same as the first position after leaving the group

10. Chava Bhargav Sai (January 2020 — May, 2023 )

Thesis Title: ATOMISTIC EXPLORATION OF WATER AND SALT CONFINED IN SUB-NANOMETER AND NANOMETER WIDE BORON-NITRIDE NANOTUBES

First Position After Leaving the Group: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (Advisor: Prof. Narayana Aluru)

Current Placement of the Student (if known): Same as the first position after leaving the group

9. Ankit Sai Etha (January 2019 — May, 2023 )

Thesis Title: MOLECULAR-SCALE EXPLORATION OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DROPS AND PARTICLES WITH A POLYMERIC LAYER

First Position After Leaving the Group:

Current Placement of the Student (if known):

8. Beihan Zhao (January, 2019 — December, 2022)

Thesis Title: EXPLORATIONS OF CARBON-NANOTUBE-GRAPHENE OXIDE INKS: PRINTABILITY, RADIO-FREQUENCY AND SENSOR APPLICATIONS, AND RELIABILITY

First Position After Leaving the Group: INTEL, Phoenix, Arizona

Current Placement of the Student (if known): Same as the first placement

7. Parth Rakesh Desai (January, 2017 — May, 2022

Thesis Title: EFFECT OF MISMATCHED BASE PAIRS ON DNA PLECTONEMES

First Position After Leaving the Group: Employed as a Postdoc at the Department of Physics, Northwestern University with Prof. John Marko (starting from June, 2022)

Current Placement of the Student (if known): Same as the first placement

6. Turash Haque Pial (January, 2019 — May, 2022)

Thesis Title: ATOMISTIC EXPLORATION OF DENSELY-GRAFTED POLYELECTROLYTE BRUSHES: EFFECT OF APPLIED ELECTRIC FIELD AND MULTIVALENT SCREENING COUNTERIONS

First Position After Leaving the Group: Employed as a Postdoc at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland with Prof. Siddhartha Das (starting from June, 2022)

Current Placement of the Student (if known): Same as the first placement

5. Harnoor Singh Sachar (August, 2018 — May, 2021)

Thesis Title: ATOMISTIC AND THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION OF LIQUID FLOWS IN POLYELECTROLYTE-BRUSH-GRAFTED NANOCHANNELS

First Position After Leaving the Group: Employed as a Postdoc at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas Austin with Prof. Venkat Ganesan (starting from June, 2021)

Current Placement of the Student (if known): Same as the first placement

4. Haoyuan Jing (January, 2017 — December, 2020)

Thesis Title: PHOSPHOLIPID BEHAVIOR AND DYNAMICS IN CURVED BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES

First Position After Leaving the Group: Employed as a Postdoc at the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University working with Prof. Jian Liu (starting from January, 2021)

Current Placement of the Student (if known): Same as the first placement

3. Yanbin Wang (August, 2016 — November, 2019)

Thesis Title: WATER, ION, AND GRAPHENE: AN ODYSSEY THROUGH THE MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS

First Position After Leaving the Group: Employed as a Postdoc in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University working with Prof. Tian Li

Current Placement of the Student (if known): Same as the first placement

2. Shayandev Sinha (January, 2015 — July, 2018)

Thesis title: BILAYER MEMBRANE ELECTROSTATICS AND CHARGE-REGULATED MEMBRANE-NANOPARTICLE INTERACTIONS

First Position After Leaving the Group: Postdoc, Harvard University and Harvard Medical School (Advisors: Dr. Nate Cira and Dr. Hyungsoon Im)

Current Placement of the Student (if known): Scientist,Intel Corporation

1. Guang Chen (August, 2014 — January, 2017)

Thesis title: NANOCONFINED POLYELECTROLYTE BRUSHES: THERMODYNAMICS, ELECTROSTATICS AND TRANSPORT

First Position After Leaving the Group: Postdoc, Princeton University (Advisor: Prof. Howard Stone)

Current Placement of the Student (if known): Assistant Professor, Department of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, China (Start Date: March, 2021)

MS Students

5. Vishal Sankar Sivasankar (December, 2018 — August, 2020)

Thesis title: ELECTROKINETIC TRANSPORT IN NANOCHANNELS GRAFTED WITH BACKBONE CHARGED POLYELECTROLYTE BRUSHES

Current Position: PhD under Prof. Das

4. Chava Bhargav Sai (August, 2018 — December, 2019)

Current Position: Transferred to PhD under Prof. Das

3. Neil Dalal (June, 2017 — November, 2018)

Thesis title: INFLUENCE OF GAS FLOW RATES ON TRACE QUALITY AND RELIABILITY IN A SELECTED CONDUCTOR INK PRINTED WITH AN AEROSOL JET PRINTER

First Position After Leaving the Group: Applied Physics Lab, JHU

2. Harnoor Singh Sachar (August, 2017 — August, 2018)

Current Position: Transferred to PhD under Prof. Das

1. Jahin Patwary (August, 2014 — August, 2018)

Thesis title: ENERGY CONVERSION IN NANOCHANNELS GRAFTED WITH POLYELECTROLYTE AND POLYZWITTERION BRUSHES

First Position After Leaving the Group: Industry

Raja Maheedhara (March, 2017 — July, 2018)

Thesis title: ENHANCED DIFFUSIOOSMOSIS AND THERMOOSMOSIS IN POLYELECTROLYTE-BRUSH-FUNCTIONALIZED NANOCHANNELS

First Position After Leaving the Group: Industry

Haoyuan Jing (August, 2015 — December, 2016)

Current Position: Completed his Ph.D. under Prof. Das; currently employed as a Postdoc at the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University working with Prof. Jian Liu (starting from January, 2021)

Parth Desai (August, 2015 — December, 2016)

Current Position: Transferred to Ph.D. under Prof. Das

Joseph Andrews (August, 2015 — August, 2016)

Co-Advisor: Peter W. Chung

Thesis title: WETTING OF GRAPHENE

First Position After Leaving the Group: Industry

Undergraduates

TEAM GECKO (GEMSTONE TEAM) (Fall, 2019 to Spring 2022)

Research Topic: 3D-printing of Magnetically and Electrically Responsive Materials

TEAM BACTERIA (GEMSTONE TEAM) (January, 2016 — May, 2018)

Vineet Padia (Fall, 2015 — Spring, 2016)

Lucas Myers (Spring, 2015 — Fall, 2016)

Joseph Andrews (Fall, 2014 — Summer, 2015)

Kyle McDaniel (Summer 2014 — Spring 2015)

Fedra Valcius (Summer Intern; June/July, 2014)

Awards Received by the Students

Dr. Sai Ankit Etha (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was nominated by the College of Engineering to appear in the competition of the UMD Graduate School’s The Michael J. Pelczar Award for Excellence in Graduate Study (March, 2023)

Dr. Turash Haque Pial (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was nominated by the College of Engineering to appear in the competition for the UMD Graduate School’s Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2022 (February, 2023)

Dr. Sai Ankit Etha (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected as the Finalist for the Padden Award Symposium to be held at the APS March meeting 2023 (October, 2022).

Dr. Vishal Sankar Sivasankar (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the STLE (Society for Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers) Scholarship (July, 2022).

Dr. Bhargav Sai Chava (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the STLE (Society for Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers) Scholarship (July, 2022).

Ms. Anjali Dhamsania (belonging to the GEMSTONE Team GECKO, mentored by Dr. Das) won the 2022 GEMSTONE Outstanding Gemstone Scholar Award for Seniors (May, 2022).

Dr. Harnoor Singh Sachar (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) won the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMD best PhD Dissertation award for 2021 (April, 2022).

Dr. Bhargav Sai Chava (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the 2022 Future Faculty Program of the A. James Clark School of Engineering School of University of Maryland, College Park (December, 2021).

Dr. Vishal Sankar Sivasankar (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the 2022 Future Faculty Program of the A. James Clark School of Engineering School of University of Maryland, College Park (December, 2021).

Dr. Turash Haque Pial (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the STLE (Society for Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers) Scholarship (July, 2021).

Dr. Sai Ankit Etha (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was for the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for Academic Year 2020-2021 offered by the Graduate School, University of Maryland (December, 2020).

Dr. Turash Haque Pial (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the 2021 Future Faculty Program of the A. James Clark School of Engineering School of University of Maryland, College Park (December, 2020).

Dr. Sai Ankit Etha (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the 2021 Future Faculty Program of the A. James Clark School of Engineering School of University of Maryland, College Park (December, 2020).

Dr. Harnoor Singh Sachar (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected as the Finalist for the Padden Award Symposium to be held at the 2021 Virtual APS March Meeting (November, 2020).

Dr. Harnoor Singh Sachar (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the STLE (Society for Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers) Scholarship (July, 2020).

Dr. Harnoor Singh Sachar (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the 2020 Future Faculty Program of the A. James Clark School of Engineering of University of Maryland, College Park (January, 2020).

Dr. Harnoor Singh Sachar (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was for the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for 2019 offered by the Graduate School, University of Maryland (December, 2019).

Dr. Shayandev Sinha (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) won the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMD best PhD Dissertation award for 2018.

Dr. Haoyuan Jing (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the 2019 Future Faculty Program of the A. James Clark School of Engineering School of University of Maryland, College Park (December, 2018).

Dr. Parth Rakesh Desai (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the STLE (Society for Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers) Scholarship (July, 2018).

Dr. Shayandev Sinha (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for 2018 offered by the Graduate School, University of Maryland (April, 2018).

Dr. Guang Chen (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) won the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMD best PhD Dissertation award for 2017.

Dr. Yanbin Wang (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the 2018 Future Faculty Program of the A. James Clark School of Engineering School of University of Maryland, College Park (December, 2017).

Dr. Shayandev Sinha (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for receiving the STLE (Society for Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers) Scholarship (July, 2017).

GEMSTONE Team (TEAM BACTERIA), mentored by Dr. Siddhartha Das, wins the best poster award in the Junior Year Level Poster presentation (April, 2017).

Mr. Joseph Andrews (Former M.S. student of Dr. Das) won the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMD best M.S. Thesis award for 2016.

Dr. Shayandev Sinha (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the 2017 Future Faculty Program of the A. James Clark School of Engineering School of University of Maryland, College Park (December, 2016).

GEMSTONE Team (TEAM BACTERIA), mentored by Dr. Siddhartha Das won $5000 UMD Sustainability Fund to support research involving the use of bacteria-produced enzymes for breaking asphaltenes for heavy oil recovery (December, 2016).

Dr. Shayandev Sinha (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected for the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for 2015 offered by the Graduate School, University of Maryland (April, 2016).

Dr. Shayandev Sinha (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) received the Kulkarni Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship for Summer 2016 offered by the Graduate School, University of Maryland (April, 2016).

Dr. Shayandev Sinha (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was recognized by ASME for taking part in Family Day in Washington DC (March, 2016).

Dr. Shayandev Sinha (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) chosen as one among 37 students for serving in the ASME’s International Petroleum Technology Institute Collegiate Council (December, 2015).

Dr. Guang Chen (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) selected for the 2016 Future Faculty Program of the A. James Clark School of Engineering School of University of Maryland, College Park (December, 2015).

Dr. Guang Chen (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) received the Northrup Grumman Graduate Fellowship in Engineering Education for the 2015-2016 academic year (November, 2015).

Dr. Guang Chen (Former PhD student of Dr. Das) was selected as a finalist in the Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) Women in Clean Energy symposium (October, 2015).