Dr. Achintya Mukhopadhyay

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Jadavpur University

Academic Expert

Dr. Achintya Mukhopadhyay is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Calcutta), India. Dr. Mukhopadhyay has also served as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and held visiting positions at the Technical University of Munich where he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dr. Mukhopadhyay’s teaching and research interests include thermodynamics, heat transfer, combustion, multiphase flows and design and analysis of thermal systems. Dr. Mukhopadhyay has over 270 research publications including over 100 international journal publications. Dr. Mukhopadhyay is a Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, recipient of INSA Teachers Award from Indian National Science Academy, a life member of the Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer, and also the Indian section of the Combustion Institute.

Nandakumar Nayak

Head - Training Engineers & Renewables
Tata Power Skill Development Institute (TPSDI)

Industry Expert

Nandakumar Nayak has more than 35 years of experience in the power sector and has been working in various capacities in thermal generation, operation and maintenance of power plants, and training deliverables. Mr. Nayak also handles the domains of training evaluation and training need identification for corporates in the renewable energy sector involving solar and wind energy. Moreover, he is a key faculty member for content development and training delivery in Solar PV Technology.

Hari Rohra

Head - Training Resource Utilisation
Tata Power Skill Development Institute (TPSDI)

Industry Expert

Hari Rohra, an electrical engineer from VJTI, has nearly 35 years of experience in Tata Power in different capacities and has worked in departments like construction, operations and maintenance of generating and receiving stations. He is the resident expert in solar energy at the Tata Power Skill Development Institute and is keenly sought after as a faculty by organisations such as Tata Power Solar Systems Limited and Walwhan Renewable Energy Limited (WREL). In 2018, Mr. Rohra trained over 800 people in Solar PV Technology.