Jayanta S Kapat
University of Central Florida, USA
Biography
Dr. Jay Kapat is currently the Pegasus Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He received his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has been at UCF since 1997. Since 2012, he has been the founding director of the Center for Advanced Turbomachinery and Energy Research (CATER) at UCF. He has supervised and graduated 20 doctoral students, most of whom are currently at various OEM’s such as Siemens Energy and Mitsubishi. He has over 200 journal and peer-reviewed conference publications.