Dr. Ashish Karn is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies. He was a B.Tech from IIT Delhi in Mechanical Engineering in 2011 and an MS and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in 2013 and 2016, both in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. He is receiving many awards, such as the Early Career Research Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board, DST, India, and National Innovation Foundation. He is also a winner of the nationwide Toycathon-2021 for his ideas on promoting indigenous toys and games in India. He also receives the Nation Builder Award by Rotary International for his excellence in teaching and engineering education. Different government agencies awarded him for his innovations during the recent pandemic crisis. His current research includes renewable energy sources such as kinetic hydropower and small-scale hydropower. He heads the Multiphase Flows Lab (annual.in/mpfl), a research facility at UPES. Apart from education and the history of science, his technical research interests include experimental and computational thermal-fluid sciences and multiphase flows. He is the associate editor of the SCOPUS-indexed Engineering Journal and serves on the editorial board/international advisory panel for several journals. He has published 61 publications, including in SCI journals in thermal-fluid sciences and many other copyrights.