Satwinder Sadhal | AIChE

Satwinder Sadhal

Professor
University of Southern California

Professor Sadhal received his PhD at Caltech in Engineering Science in 1978. He is a Professor of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering and Ophthalmology at USC. He is the lead author of the book, “Transport Phenomena with Drops and Bubbles.” He has worked on NASA projects involving containerless processing using acoustic levitation techniques, and has also made fundamental contributions to nonlinear acoustics, particularly streaming phenomenon with liquid drops. His technical contributions include a large body of scientific of literature on fluid, thermal and material transport. He is a Fellow of ASME and the recipient of the 2007 James H. Potter Gold Medal and the 2019 Heat Transfer Memorial Award. His current activity includes ocular fluid dynamics and transport associated with drug delivery, transport and permeability properties of the vitreous humor and retina. His team has conducted research on intravitreal drug delivery in collaboration with the USC Roski Eye Institute for the last several years with funding from Allergan, Inc. and the National Eye Institute (NIH).