Honored to be featured as Pioneering Investigator of the Chemical Communications journal (Link: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…), and as a part of this honor, I published this feature article highlighting my groups' work on polymer brushes (pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…) UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering UMD Research Maryland Engineering

Paper in Langmuir. My 1st single-authored paper in 10 years. I develop a theory to calculate a new type of active flows in a capillary and its effect on the transport and dispersion of inert solutes UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering UMD Research Maryland Engineering pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

First day as the Full Professor UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering Maryland Engineering. I take this opportunity to extend immense gratitude to my students, mentors, university and department leadership, and my family members.

My second single author paper on active flows published in American Institute of Physics Physics of Fluids. I propose analytical solutions for studying active flows in porous capillaries UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering UMD Research Maryland Engineering pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/articl…

News on my recognition as a Pioneering Investigator of the Chemical Communications journal, published on my department's webpage: enme.umd.edu/news/story/das… UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering Maryland Engineering UMD Research

Delivered an invited talk in The Catholic University of America in Washington DC UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering UMD Research Maryland Engineering

Please to share this paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. We show complete de-encapsulation of aggregates from drop interior without affecting the drop: a "first" for problems on drops with applications in separation and 3D printing. UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering UMD Research Maryland Engineering doi.org/10.1021/acsami…

A lovely piece reflecting my feeling towards my workplace UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering Maryland Engineering UMD Research enme.umd.edu/student-story/…

Paper in ACS App. Polymer. Mater. We discover anti-electrophoretic behavior of charged, grafted polymer chains (caused by large velocities of polymer-bound ions), leading to non-linear nanofluidic electroosmotic flows. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering Maryland Engineering UMD Research

Undergrad textbook tells us that Nusselt number (Nu) is 4.36 for fully developed pipe flows with constant heat flux (q"). In this latest single-author paper, I show analytically Nu=3.83 in active pipe flows for constant q" UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering Maryland Engineering UMD Research pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/articl…

Pleased to have been elected as the Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (linnean.org) for my research on generic biological soft matter. Founded in 1788, this society is the world’s oldest active society on natural history. UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering UMD Research Maryland Engineering

Celebrating my superstar Ph.D. student Raashiq, who was a finalist in the APS D-SOFT graduate student competition and also won the Ann Wylie dissertation fellowship of the UMD graduate school enme.umd.edu/news/story/ish… UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering Maryland Engineering UMD Research UMD Grad School

News story on my election as Fellow to Linnean Society has been published on my department's webpage. me.umd.edu/news/story/das… UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering UMD Research Maryland Engineering

New effort combining Machine Learning and MD simulations to understand polymer brushes: used linear discriminant analysis on MD data to quantify the physics of electric field driven flows in brush grafted nanochannels UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering, @umdresearch, Maryland Engineering pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Last week I delivered a KEYNOTE Talk at ACS Colloids Conf. (colloids2025.com) held at the University of Alberta, Canada. The talk focused on my group's recent work of manipulating nanoparticles with drops (paper: lnkd.in/eSfkJ2wd) UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering Maryland Engineering UMD Research

Delighted to write of my election as an APS Fellow (American Physical Society ) for 2025 in the Division of Polymer Physics (Dennis Poly). I take this opportunity to thank my students, mentors, nominators, department, university, and family and friends Univ. of Maryland Maryland Engineering UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering UMD Research