
Kripa K. Varanasi is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He received his B.Tech from IIT Madras, India and his SM (ME and EECS) and Ph.D from MIT. Prior to joining MIT as a faculty member, Prof. Varanasi was a lead researcher and project leader at the GE Global Research Center.
The focus of his work is in understanding the physico-chemical phenomena at interfaces and developing novel materials, devices, and products that can dramatically enhance performance in energy, water, agriculture, transportation, medical, and consumer devices. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and has co-founded multiple companies such as LiquiGlide, DropWise, and Infinite Cooling for translating the technologies from his lab to market. Time and Forbes Magazines have named LiquiGlide to their “Best Inventions of the Year”.
Prof. Varanasi has received various awards for his work including NSF Career Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Heat Transfer Award, Boston Business Journal’s 40 under 40, DOE’s National Cleantech University Prize, MIT 100K Award, ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award for outstanding achievements in mechanical engineering, and MIT Graduate Student Council’s Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising.
Name | Contact | Position | Location | Alum since |
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Jack R Lake | 2022 | |||
Vishnu Jayaprakash | CEO & Co-Founder | AgZen | 2022 | |
Baptiste Blanc | 2022 | |||
Alvaro Moreno Soto | 2021 | |||
Somayajulu Dhulipala | Email | 2020 | ||
Ha Eun David Kang | 2019 | |||
Henri-Louis Girard | 2019 | |||
Sami Khan | Assistant Professor | Simon Fraser University | 2019 | |
Samantha McBride | 2019 | |||
Jolet De Ruiter | 2017 | |||
Susmita Dash | Assistant Professor | Indian Institute of Science | 2017 | |
Arindam Das | 2017 | |||
Brian Solomon | 2017 | |||
Dan Soto | Project Manager | Poietis | 2017 | |
Gibum Kwon | Assistant Professor | University of Kansas | 2016 | |
Taylor Farnham | Mechanical Design Engineer | LiquiGlide Inc. | 2016 | |
Sudarshan Sarathy | Associate | Strategy&, part of the PwC network | 2016 | |
Srinivas Subramanyam | Advanced Research Scientist | Eastman Chemicals | 2016 | |
Nada Bjelobrk | Research Officer | Swansea University | 2016 | |
Paris Cox | Boeing | 2016 | ||
Asli Ugur | Senior Researcher | National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology TUBITAK | 2015 | |
Sushant Anand | Assistant Professor | University of Illinois at Chicago | 2015 | |
M. Nasim Hyder | 2015 | |||
Navdeep Dhillon | Assistant Professor | California State University, Long Beach | 2015 | |
Adam Paxson | CEO | DropWise Technologies | 2014 | |
Christopher Love | PhD Candidate | MIT | 2014 | |
Gisele Azimi | Assistant Professor | University of Toronto | 2014 | |
Rajeev Dhiman | Research Specialist | Tesla Motors | 2013 | |
Konrad Rykaczewski | Assistant Professor | Arizona State University | 2013 | |
Alex Slocum Jr. | Plastic Surgery Resident | Medical College of Wisconsin | 2013 | |
Hyuk-Min Kwon | Coating Development Engineer | DropWise Technologies | 2013 | |
Yuehua Cui | Professor | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 2013 | |
J. David Smith | CEO | LiquiGlide Inc. | 2012 |