Ankur did his B.S. in Marine Engineering from BITS Pilani University (India) in 2008 and obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 2015. Subsequently, he worked as a Brain-Korea 21 Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Aerospace engineering at KAIST (under the guidance of Prof. Seung Wook Baek). He is recipient of the SERB Indo-US Postdoctoral fellowship and currently works as a post-doctoral research associate under the advisement of Prof. Garimella and Prof. Weibel at CTRC. His research focuses on understanding flow-instability and dry-out mechanisms in two-phase parallel micro-channel heat sinks.