Awards & Activities


Awards & Achievements
  • Selected as a APS Career Mentoring Fellow in 2023-2024
  • Awarded Purdue Post-Doctoral Association (PPDA) conference travel grant in 2022.
  • Recipient of Institute Best Doctoral Thesis Award in the Mechanical Engineering domain from IIT Guwahati for the year 2020-2021.
  • Recipient of American Physical Society Forum for Early Career Scientists (APS-FECS) Mini Grant for the APS March Meeting, 2021.
  • Recipient of International Society for Porous Media Conference grant for InterPore annual meeting, 2020.
  • Recipient of MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Travel Grant (Full Grant) for attending the Fluids and Health 2019: Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Conference held at The Cargese Institute of Scientific Studies, France. 2019
  • Recipient of “Tse Cheuk Ng Tai Innovations in Fluids and Health 2019 Award” in the Fluids and Health 2019: Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Conference held at The Cargese Institute of Scientific Studies, France. 2019
  • Recipient of prestigious M. G. Deshpande Memorial Prize for Best Paper in the 7th International and 45th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics & Fluid Power (FMFP 2018) held at IIT Bombay, 2018
  • Best Poster Award in Research Conclave 2018 organized by IIT Guwahati. 2018
  • Award of Appreciation from Royal Society of Chemistry for conducting a pre-conference workshop in the Complex Dynamical Systems and Applications conference(CDSA-2017) held at IIT Guwahati, 2017
  • Recipient of North-East Scholarship for showing Excellent Performance in Academics, 2010-2013
Award receieved by Bhaskarjyoti Sarma
Award receieved by Bhaskarjyoti Sarma
Award receieved by Bhaskarjyoti Sarma
Membership of Professional Bodies
  • International Society for Porous Media (Student Membership)
  • American Physical Society (Student Membership, ID: 61316895)
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Student Membership, ID: 100122666)

Leadership
  • Represented Maruti-Suzuki India Limited with a group of 5 members in the drama category for the inter-corporate cultural competition in 2013.
  • An official of the Gymkhana Union Body, NIT Silchar (2012), the official union body of students. Led in the post of “Drama Secretary” and organized first-ever “Inter Hostel Drama Competition.”
  • Executive member of the core committee of Incandescence, a biggest cultural extravaganza in the Barak Valley, Assam- responsible for sponsorship and event management that involved a budget of over $40,000.
  • Executive member of the core committee of Techniche, a flagship national level technical festival, NITS- responsible for event management that involved a budget of over $20,000.
  • Founder of Dramatics Club, NIT Silchar and acted as president for two years.
  • Organizing Secretary of “POSUA 2013”- a flagship event held at NIT Silchar showcasing the rich cultural heritage of the North-Eastern part of India.
  • Editorial member of the assamese section of the annual magazine of NIT Silchar- “IGNITS” in the year 2010 and 2013.
  • Actively participated in the social activities such as cloth donation, voluntary teaching, cleanliness drive, etc. of National Service Scheme group of NIT Silchar.
  • One of the founding members of “Eco Club,”- a green club initiative of NIT Silchar, in 2011.

Community outreach

I served as the president of "Praktan Chatra Bharati," an alumni association of the Sankardev Sishu Niketan, Karara, from October 2018 to September 2020. I am also one of the founding members and founding secretary of the same organization. As a head of the organization, working closely with the school committee, my prime focus was ensuring the school students' multilateral growth by enhancing their participation in various extracurricular activities. We organized several social activities, including science exhibitions and quiz competitions (for school students) felicitation of outstanding students for their performance in board examinations, to name a few. By organizing blood donation drives and plantation drives, we also ensured the betterment of the communities in the nearby areas of the school. Community outreach by Bhaskarjyoti Sarma
Community outreach by Bhaskarjyoti Sarma


Instrument Operational Skills
  • High Speed Visualization camera by Photron
  • Contact Angle Goniometer
  • Wire Electro Discharge Machine.
  • 3D printing Machine
  • Optical Microscope (Leica)
  • Thermal Imager
  • High Voltage AC/DC source
  • Spin coating unit (Apex instruments co., India make)
  • Operation of the Source-meter (Keithley instruments inc., USA)
  • Ultrasonicator

Methods & Other Skills
  • Lab Methods: Ultrathin film manufacture, film characterization (structural, optical, electrical properties), all basic analytical methods.
  • Programming: C, C++, LaTeX, Python (Plotting + Basic), Seaborn (Plotting), Django (Basics), Linux tools
  • Computational Software: ANSYS, COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS 5.2, SPSS
  • Quantitative: ImageJ, Tracker, Origin, Tecplot, Mathematica, Microsoft Office
  • Languages: English and Hindi, Assamese (mother tongue)
  • Currently participating in writing 1 research grant proposal to DST-SERB India

Hobbies
  • Sports: Played Cricket as a Batsman in school and college level; practices Body-building
  • Arts and Music: Actively engaged in creative content writing of all kinds, including prose, poetry, sketch, skits, drama, ads. Also, served as an editor of several schools, and college magazines. Actively participated in performing arts specifically skit, drama, and mime both as actor and director since school days.
  • Digital Graphics Design: Ad and Video making using Adobe Premiere Pro, and Movavi Video Suit. Active user of Adobe Photoshop.
  • Social Activities: Currently engaged as President of an NGO, “Praktan Chatra Bharati SSNK,” working in various sectors of rural health and education. The NGO has successfully conducted various social activities such as blood donation drive, cleanliness campaigns (Swachh Bharat mission), fundraiser activities for flood victims of Assam, rural school development, to name a few.