Brief bio
Dr. Vaibhav Bahadur is an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin since 2013. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2017), the SPE Petroleum Engineering Young Faculty Award (2015), the ACS Doctoral New Investigator Award (2014), and the Google Faculty Research Award (2018). He is the winner of the Society of Petroleum Engineer’s R&D Competition at SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (2014).
Dr. Bahadur has more than 60 journal/conference articles, three patents, and six pending patent applications. His research is targeted at a fundamental understanding of microscale thermal-fluid-particle transport phenomena with applications in energy, water, and environmental protection.
