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Washington State University

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5.08/20/2025

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5.04/30/2025

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About Prashanta

Prashanta Dutta is the Richard Schneider Jr. Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University, where he also serves as Director of the NSF NRT-LEAD Program, Project Director of the GAANN-STAR program, and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2001, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Carolina in 1997, M.S.M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1996, and B.S.M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1994. Dutta joined Washington State University in 2001 as an Assistant Professor, advanced to Associate Professor in 2007, and became a full Professor in 2013. His research focuses on microfluidics and nanofluidics, transport modeling for thermal, chemical, and biological systems, multiscale modeling and simulation of protein-protein interactions, drug delivery and discovery, electrokinetic flow, separation, and purification, and energy conversion and storage. Additional interests include physics and data-driven machine learning, Bayesian inference for inverse problems, micro/nanofluidic sensors and actuators, drug delivery through the blood-brain barrier, and thermal analysis of microscale liquid flow.