title: Sanjay Mittal
text: # Sanjay Mittal
  
  Sanjay Mittal is a Professor of computational fluid dynamics in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.
  
  ## Early life and education
  
  After doing his B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur in 1988, he got enrolled at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities for M.S. program. He then received his Ph.D. and worked as a research associate under Tayfun Tezduyar.
  
  ## Career
  
  After working for two years at Army High Performance Computing center he returned to India and joined IIT Kanpur in the year of 1994 as an assistant professor.
  
  ## Awards
  
  Mittal has been the recipient of various awards.
  
  * 2006 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
  * 2015 G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research
  