Bukke Kiran NaikDr. Bukke Kiran Naik is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department at NIT Rourkela from 2020. He received both his Ph.D. (2019) and M-Tech (2014) from IIT Guwahati and B-Tech (2012) from JNTU Anantapur in Mechanical Engineering. He wrked as a Queen Elizabeth Postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University, Canada during 2019–2020 and as Project Engineer at IIT Guwahati in 2019. He is the recipient of Paired Early Career Fellowship in Applied Research (PECFAR) from Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (IGSTC), Queen Elizabeth Scholars (QES) Fellowship from Universities Canada, CCSTDS Travel fellowship from INSA/CSIR/DAE-BRNS-CCSTDS, and SERB-ITS travel grant from DST, Government of India. Further, he was selected as Young Indian Scientist to the 6th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) conclave 2021 in the thematic area of Energy Solutions and he also received INAE fellowship for working as a visiting researcher at IIT Kanpur. He has filled three patents till date and secured three funded research projects from ISRO, SERB and NIT Rourkela. He also received funding from several funding agencies (SERB, ATAL and ISHRAE) to organize outreach programs (workshops and short-term courses). He served as a student’s activities chair, K-12 chair and CWC member for ISHARE Guwahati-sub chapter from year 2016–2018 and Program chair for ISHARE Bhubaneswar sub-chapter from year 2021–2022. Currently, serving as ISHRAE Bhubaneswar Sub- Chapter President for the year 2022–2023. He has about 50 research articles in reputed international journals and conference proceedings. Moreover, Dr. Naik has been invited by various reputed institutes/societies to deliver talk on his research work carried out in energy-water nexus or sustainable energy and buildings. Read More Read Less