IIT Delhi alumnus shines among MIT PhD students
Supratim Das is a B.Tech and M.Tech graduate in Chemical Engineering of 2016 batch from IIT Delhi. He then joined the Bazant group in Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering in January 2017. You will think he is a just a regular student but his list of accolades and publications by this age separate him from the crowd. Recently, he has been recognized and praised by MIT for outstanding all-round contribution to student life by a PhD student. Das and his collaborators, in their doctoral research have been able to understand the microscopic changes that degrade a lithium-ion battery’s electrodes over its lifetime, and develop multiscale physics based models to predict them in a robust manner at the macro-scale. This will aid battery manufacturers to substantially reduce battery health diagnostics costs before it is incorporated into a device, and make batteries safer for consumers. In his latest project, he’s trying to investigate the best way of charging a lithium-ion battery without damaging it.
He understands the power of collaboration well as Das was elected House Secretary of Satpura Hostel and worked with students and administration to introduce new facilities and events to IIT Delhi campus. At MIT too he represented chemical engineering students on the Graduate Student Advisory Board. He also launched a community service initiative within the Department of Chemical Engineering which is to mentor school children and volunteer at nonprofits in Cambridge once a week. Supratim won the J. Edward Vivian Award for outstanding Performance, Leadership and Commitment in Practice School for the academic year 2017-2018. The institute is proud of his achievements.
