Prabhu Ramachandran

Awards & Fellowships

• 2008: two FOSS Awards for Mayavi and TVTK(link is external) as two of the top open source projects from India.
• 2010: Nominated member of the Python Software Foundation(link is external).
• 2010: Excellence in Teaching Award for the year 2010 from IIT Bombay.
• 2012: Hotchand Lala Teaching Award for undergraduate teaching, from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay.
• 2014: Kenneth Gonsalves Award 2014(link is external): an annual award constituted by the Python Software Society of India for recognition of substantial and original community contribution towards Python programming by an Indian.
• 2017: D. P. Joshi Award for Excellence in Teaching for the year 2017 from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay.

I'm a member of the faculty at the department of aerospace engineering, IIT Bombay. I am also associated with the Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Science at IIT Bombay. I am currently the Head of the Computer Centre at IIT Bombay. I am an alumnus of the department of aerospace engineering, IIT Madras.

My research interests include particle methods and meshfree methods for computational fluid dynamics, scientific computing, parallel and high-performance computing, machine learning for numerical computation, and applied scientific data visualization. Formerly, I was managing director and later director of Enthought India. I'm an advocate of Free and Open Source software and in my spare time develop some free/open software. I have been a nominated member of the Python Software Foundation since 2010. I blog and tweet very occasionally.