Ishwar Puri
indian-American scientist and engineer
Ishwar Kanwar Puri (born 1959) is an Indian-American and Canadian scientist, engineer, and academic.
Early life and education
Puri was born in New Delhi, India, in 1959. He studied at St. Xavier's School, Delhi from 1964 to 1976. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering of Delhi University, Delhi in 1982, and M.S. (1984) and Ph.D. (1987) degrees in Engineering Science (Applied Mechanics) from the University of California, San Diego.
His mother, Sushila Gaind Puri, was a pioneering anesthesiologist in New Delhi, and his father, Krishan Kanwar Puri, completed his doctoral dissertation from University of Münster in 1955.
Academic publications
The author of archival publications and books, and patents, Puri is listed among the top 0.4% of scholars among twenty nine million considered by ScholarGPS in terms of the impact of his publications. He is listed among the top two percent of scientists in the Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators based on citations to his work.
Puri has explained the structure and extinction of counterflow diffusion flames, use of magnetic fluids for heat transfer and drug targeting, how biological inks can be formulated to print mammalian cells into three-dimensional cellular structures with diamagnetophoresis, and provided mathematical models for the progression of disease, such as cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
His books include Combustion Science and Engineering, CRC Press, Advanced Thermodynamics Engineering, and Environmental Implications of Combustion Processes.
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