Rahul Roy

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

GITAM School of Technology

Bengaluru

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rahulr081192@gmail.com

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Dr. Rahul Roy, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) and former NPDF at IISc Bengaluru, is a faculty member at GITAM University. He earned his M.Tech. in Thermal Engineering from NIT Durgapur, receiving the Institute Gold Medal. His research focuses on microfluidics, active microswimmers, electrokinetics, electrohydrodynamics, and AI-controlled microswimmer navigation for applications in healthcare, drug delivery, and microsurgery.

Research Publications

Chemically active particles in extensional flow. R Roy & S Mandal, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1008, A40, 2025
Smart navigation of microswimmers in Poiseuille flow via reinforcement learning. R Roy, P Chakraborty& S Mandal, The European Physical Journal E 48 (6), 30, 2025
Elastic contribution of polymeric fluids augments salinity-gradient-induced electric potential across a microfluidic channel. R Roy, A Guha, S Mukherjee, S Chakraborty Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 678, 556-565, 2024
Electro-wetting induced dynamic manipulation of symmetrically coalescing viscoelastic liquid bridges. R Roy, JSM Quintero, R Lakkaraju, PR Waghmare, S Chakraborty Physics of Fluids 35 (5), 2023
Streaming potential in bio-mimetic microvessels mediated by capillary glycocalyx. R Roy, S Mukherjee, R Lakkaraju, S Chakraborty Microvascular Research 132, 104039 2020

Expertise

Microfluidics, Active microswimmers, Reinforcement learning (RL)