Department Seminar Series: Prashanta Dutta, Ph.D., FASME
Washington State University
CBEE Department Seminar Series
Prashanta Dutta, Ph.D., FASME
Application of Artificial Intelligence in Drug Design and Delivery
Brief Bio:
Dr. Prashanta Dutta is a tenured Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University (WSU) and the Director of the NSF NRT-LEAD program. He received his MS (1997) and PhD (2001) degrees from the University of South Carolina and Texas A&M University, respectively. He joined the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering of WSU in 2001. During his sabbatical years, he worked as a Visiting Professor at the Aerospace Engineering Department of Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea, and the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. His primary research area is Micro, Nano, and Biofluidics with a specific focus on the development of new algorithms for multiscale and multiphysics problems. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles and four book chapters. Prof. Dutta organized and chaired numerous sessions, fora, symposia, and tracks for several ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and APS (American Physical Society) conferences and served as the Chair of the ASME Micro/Nano Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee. Moreover, he served as an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering; currently, he is an Editor for the Electrophoresis. Dr. Dutta is an elected Fellow of ASME and an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He has received various prestigious awards, including the Fulbright Award (2016-2017) and the ASME Donald N. Zwiep Innovation in Education award.