Sumanta Laha

Mr Sumanta Laha is a research scholar (jointly with IIT Kharagpur, India) in the field of Cardiovascular engineering and precisely on the heart valve. He is presently working on the implementation of the SPH in the cardiovascular fluid mechanics. He has worked  in the LVAD developmental project sponsored by MHRD and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Previously He has worked as an engineer in Flowserve Sanmar Limited.

His research interests include cardiovascular engineering, artificial heart valves, mechanical heart simulator, and bio-inspired fluid mechanics and heat transfer.

Mr Sumanta Laha has been awarded the prestigious SITARE-GYTI national award 2020 with a research grant from BIRAC (DBT, Govt. of India). In his undergraduate, he has bagged the best project award (with scholarship) from BITM Kolkata (under the national council of science museum, Govt. of India) in 2016 and third-best project award in industry-academia conclave by West Bengal University of Technology 2017.