Staff Directory

Sumanta Acharya

Email:
sacharya@nsf.gov
Phone:
(703) 292-4509
Room:
E 13481
Organization:
CBET
Title:
Program Director

Program Responsibilities:
National Science Foundation - Future of Semiconductors (FuSe2)
Thermal Transport Processes (TTP)

Biography:

Sumanta Acharya is currently the Program Director (PD) of the Thermal Transport Processes (TTP) Program in the CBET Division in the Engineering Directorate at NSF. He is on an IPA appointment from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago since 2022, where is currently a Professor in Mechanical Engineering and was previously the Department Chair of the Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE) Department from 2016-2022. 

His research area is in computational and experimental thermal sciences with an application focus on gas turbine cooling and combustion, and single-phase and multi-phase heat exchangers. He is the recepient of the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award in Science, the AIAA Thermophyscis Award and the AIChE Donald Q. Kern Award in Heat Transfer. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE). He has published over 200 refereed archival journal articles and book chapters and presented/published nearly 300 papers in conferences and refereed conference proceedings.