Prof. R.N. Biswas Faculty Chair in Teaching Excellence
The Chair is awarded to faculty who distinguish themselves in teaching undergraduate students and to encourage them to innovate in pedagogy. The Purpose of the chair is to motivate young faculty to become good teachers and to invest their time teaching and developing new pedagogy. https://iitk.ac.in/dora/prof-r-n-biswas
Current Occupant
Prof. Malay.K. Das
(Sep. 2025-Sep. 2028)
Prof. Malay K.Das from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. His research interests include CFD and experimental studies on methane recovery and carbon capture/sequestration, physics-informed machine learning for thermofluid applications, and thermal management of batteries and fuel cells, along with broader areas of energy conversion and storage and hydrodynamic instability.
He completed his B.E. from the University of Calcutta, Shibpur, followed by an M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.
Former Occupant
Prof. Baquer Mazhari
April 2022- April 2025
Prof. Baquer Mazhari , Department of Electrical Engineering , research and teaching interests span different aspects of microelectronics including semiconductor devices and analog/digital circuits. For the last two decades, his research has centered on organic and flexible electronics and helped in establishment of Samtel Centre for Display Technologies in the year 2000 and the National Centre for Flexible Electronics at IIT Kanpur in the year 2014. For his contributions to the field of teaching, he has received the Distinguished teacher award, Gopal Das Bhandari Memorial award and Excellence in teaching award by IIT Kanpur. He earned his doctorate from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1993.