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SANAT K. KUMAR Office Address: Home Address: Department of Chemical Engineering 241 W 108th St, #7A Columbia University New York, NY 10025. New York, NY 10027 Phone:(347)351-5314 E-mail:[email protected] EDUCATION MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Doctor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering, February, 1987. GPA = 5.0/5.0. Additional Graduate Courses taken in the areas of Properties of Polymers, Applied Mathematics, Numerical Methods, Statistical Physics and Critical Phenomena. Thesis topic: "Precipitation Polymerizations and Partitioning in Supercritical Fluids." Supervisors: Profs. R.C.Reid and U.W.Suter. Minor programs in Statistical Physics and Modern Greek. S.M. degree in Chemical Engineering, January 1984. Thesis topic: "Equations of State in Modelling Supercritical Extraction." Thesis Supervisor: Prof. R.C.Reid. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MADRAS, INDIA. Bachelor of Technology (First Class with distinction) in Chemical Engineering, June 1981. Thesis with Prof. M.S. Ananth on "Computer Modelling of Blast Furnaces." Additional courses in Operations Research, Electronics and Economics. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2006- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, NY. 2016- Bykhovsky Professor of Chemical Engineering 2010-2016 Chair, Chemical Engineering 2006- Professor of Chemical Engineering 2002 -2006 RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, TROY, NY Professor of Chemical Engineering 1988-2002 PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. 1988-1993 Assistant Professor of Materials Science. 1993-1997 Associate Professor of Materials Science. 1997-2002 Professor of Materials Science. 2001-2002 Professor of Chemical Engineering 1987-1988 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES SAN JOSE, CA. Visiting Scientist at IBM's Almaden Research Center with Dr. Do. Yoon. Worked on the theoretical aspects of polymer interfaces, and semi-crystalline polymers. 1981-1987 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1986-1987 Post Doctoral fellow with Prof Ulrich Suter on the molecular simulation of polymeric systems. 1981-1986 Teaching assistant for four semesters, in subjects on graduate and undergraduate thermodynamics, separation processes and properties of macromolecules. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American Chemical Society. American Institute of Chemical Engineers. American Physical Society. AWARDS Bykhovsky Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2016- Wilson Research Award, Penn State University, 2002 Fellow, American Physical Society, 1998 – only 2% of members are fellows Dow Lectureship, Dept. Materials Science, Northwestern University, 1994- Invited lectureship Philip L. Walker Jr. Distinguished University Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, 1990-1993. NSF Research Initiation Award, 1989-1992. Chevron Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982 – competitive award Certificate of Merit, Indian Institute of Technology, 1979 – awarded to best student GPA for the first three years of BS degree. Less than 0.01% of candidates applying to IIT get in. AWARDS FOR STUDENTS Frank Padden Award Finalist, American Physical Society, Dan Zhao, 2016 – National Competition Xerox Award, Penn State, Awarded to Ken Strawhecker, 2000—based on MS thesis. Frank Padden Award Finalist, American Physical Society, Ron Jones, 2000—National competition Frank Padden Award Finalist, American Physical Society, James Sands, 1998 – National competition MEMBERSHIPS Soft Matter, Associate Editor, 2017- Elected Chair, Gordon Research Conference, Polymer Physics, 2020 Advisory Committee, Department of Chemical Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NY, 2016- Advisory Committee, Center for Nanofunctional Materials, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, NY, 2016- Elected DPOLY Vice-Chair, American Physical Society (will be Division Chair in 2017-2018) Editor, New Nature Publishing Group journal on “Computational Materials”, 2015-2017 Visiting Professor, CNRS, Saclay (Summer 2015) Editorial Board, Macromolecules and ACS-Macro Letters, Jan. 2013- Dec. 2015 Executive Committee Member, NSF-NSEC, RPI and University of Illinois, 2004-2010 Editor, Journal of Polymer Science B. Polymer Physics, 2002-2007 Editorial Board, Journal of Polymer Science B. Polymer Physics, 2000-2002; 2007- Chair, Program advisory committee, National Institutes of Standards ad Technology, 1997-2004 Executive Committee, American Physical Society, Div. of High Polymer Physics, 1997-2000 Area 1a Committee, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1997-2003 Visiting Professor, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Summer,1996. Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, 1995-1999. Editorial Board, Molecular Simulation, 1993- 1999. PATENTS 1. Kysar, J.W., Kumar, S.K., Fragneaud, B. and Maillard, D. Thin glassy polymer films including spherical nanoparticles, US Patent 8,889,766(2014) 2. Akcora, P. and Kumar, S.K. Anisotropic self-assembly of nanoparticles in composites, US Patent 9,133,314(2015). 3. Kumar, S.K., Durning, C., Buenning, E., Bilchak, C. Grafted Polymer Nanocomposite Materials, Systems, And Methods, US Patent App. 14/878,115, (2015). PUBLICATIONS (Google Scholar H index – 62) 4. Panagiotopoulos A.Z. and Kumar S.K. "A Generalized Technique for obtaining Pure Component Parameters for Two-Parameter Equations of State." Flu. Phase Equil. 22, 77(1985). 5. Kumar S.K., Reid R.C. and Suter U.W. "A Statistical-Mechanics Based Lattice Model Equation of State: Applications to Mixtures with Supercritical Fluids." ACS Division of Fuel Chemistry Preprints 30, 66(1985). 6. Kumar S.K. and Reid R.C. "Derivation of the Relationships Between Partial Derivatives of Legendre Transforms." AIChE J 32, 1224(1986). 7. Debenedetti P.G. and Kumar S.K. "Infinite Dilution Fugacity Coefficients and the General Behavior of Dilute Binary Systems." AIChE J 32, 1253(1986). 8. Kumar S.K., Suter U.W. and Reid R.C. "Fractionation of Polymers with Supercritical Fluids." Flu. Phase Equil. 29, 373(1986). 9. Kumar S.K., Suter U.W. and Reid R.C. "A Statistical-Mechanics Based Lattice Model Equation of State." Ind. & Eng. Chem. 26, 2532(1987). 10. Kumar S.K., Chhabria S.P., Reid R.C. and Suter U.W. "Solubility of Polymers in Supercritical Fluids." Macromolecules. 20, 2550(1987). 11. Kumar S.K. and Johnston K.P. "A Quantitative Theory to Model Supercritical Fluid Extractions: Density as an Independent Variable." J. Supercritical Fluids, 1, 15(1988). 12. Debenedetti P.G. and Kumar S.K. "The Molecular Basis of Temperature Effects in Supercritical Extractions." AIChE J 34, 645(1988). 13. Bamberger T., Erickson J.C., Cooney C.L. and Kumar S.K. "Measurement and Model Prediction of the Solubilities of Pure Fatty Acids, Pure Triglycerides and Mixtures of Triglycerides in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide." J. Chem. Eng. Data. 33, 327(1988). 14. Kumar S.K., Vacatello M. and Yoon D.Y. "Off-Lattice Monte Carlo Simulations of Polymer Melts Confined Between Plates." J. Chem. Phys. 89, 5206(1988). 15. Kumar S.K. and Yoon D.Y. "A Lattice Model for Crystal-Amorphous Interphases in Lamellar Semicrystalline Polymers: Effects of Tight Fold Energy and Chain Incidence Density." Macromolecules, 22, 3458(1989). 16. Kumar S.K. and Yoon D.Y. "A Lattice Model for Binary Crystal/Amorphous Polymer Blends." Macromolecules, 22, 4089(1989). 17. Kumar S.K., Vacatello M. and Yoon D.Y. "Off-Lattice Monte Carlo Simulations of Polymer Melts Confined Between Plates. II. Effects of Chain Length and Plate Separation." Macromolecules, 23, 2189(1990). 18. Hariharan A., Kumar S.K. and Russell, T.P. "Surface Segregation of Polymer Chains Due to Molecular Weight Effects." Macromolecules, 23, 3584(1990). 19. Runt J.P., Barron C.A., Zhang X.F. and Kumar S.K. "Crystal/Amorphous Interphases in Binary Polymer Blends." Macromolecules, 24, 3466(1991). 20. Kumar S.K., Szleifer I. and Panagiotopoulos A.Z. "Determination of Chemical Potentials of Polymeric Systems from Monte Carlo Simulation." Phys. Rev. Lett., 66, 2935(1991). 21. Kumar S.K. and Russell T.P. "The Behavior of Istopic, Binary Polymer Blends in the Vicinity of Neutral Surfaces." Macromolecules, 24, 3816(1991). 22. Hariharan A., Kumar S.K. and Russell T.P. "The Behavior of Binary Polymer Blends in the Vicinity of Neutral Surfaces." Macromolecules, 24, 4909(1991). 23. Kumar S.K. and Yoon D.Y. "A Lattice Model for Binary Semicrystalline/Amorphous Polymer Blends: Effects of Tight-Fold Energy." Macromolecules, 24, 5414(1991). 24. Zhao X., Zhao W., Rafailovich M., Sokolov J., Russell T.P., Kumar S.K., Schwartz S., and Wilkens B.J. "Conformation of Grafted Polystyrene Chains in a Melt." Europhys. Lett., 15, 725(1991). 25. Yoon D.Y., Ando Y., Rojstaczer S., Kumar S.K., Alfonso G. "Crystal-Amorphous Interphases in Binary Semicrystalline/Amorphous Polymer Blends." Makromol. Chemie Makromol. Symp., 50, 183(1991). 26. Kumar S.K. "The Chain Length Dependence of The Chemical Potentials of Macromolecular Systems At Zero Density: Exact Calculations and Monte Carlo Simulations." J. Chem. Phys., 96, 1490(1992). 27. Kumar S.K., Szleifer I. and Panagiotopoulos A.Z. "Reply to Comments on Determination of the Chemical Potentials of Polymeric Systems from Simulations." Phys. Rev. Lett., 68, 3658(1992). 28. Zhao X., Zhao W., Zheng X., Rafailovich M., Sokolov J., Schwarz S.A., Pudensi M.A.A., Russell T.P., Kumar S.K. and Fetters L.J. "Kinetics of Grafted Polystyrene Chains in a Melt." Phys. Rev. Lett., 69, 776(1992). 29. Kumar S.K. "A Modified Real Particle Method for the Calculation of the Chemical Potentials of Molecular Systems." J. Chem. Phys., 97, 3550(1992). 30. Kumar S.K. "A Comparison of Different