All About IISc Professor Duvvuri Subrahmanyam Who'll Speak At NDTV World Summit 2026

Duvvuri Subrahmanyam, Associate Professor of aerospace engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), will be speaking at the NDTV World Summit 2026, which will be held in New Delhi on October 22 and 23. 

Subrahmanyam leads the Turbulent Shear Flow Physics and Engineering Laboratory (TSFPEL) at the IISc and area of research includes aero/fluid dynamics. 

He will speak on Day 2 of the summit at 12:45 pm. He will join Dr Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, CEO of the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), for a session titled “Can India Build a Research Superpower?”

Who is Duvvuri Subrahmanyam?

Born in 1989, Duvvuri Subrahmanyam did his Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Aerospace Engineering, from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, from 2006-10. He then attended California Institute of Technology for his Master of Science (MS), Space Engineering before doing his PhD in aeronautics from the same institution. 

In 2016, Subrahmanyam joined Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. In 2018, he returned to India and joined IISc as an Assistant Professor. Six years later, he became an Associate Professor at IISc's Department of Aerospace Engineering. 

During the Covid-19 Pandemic, under his leadership, the institute's laboratory, TSFPEL, played a key role to develop novel low-cost high-functionality medical ventilator technology, according to information on his website. 

Subrahmanyam also writes about space and aeronautics for national media and has been a recipient of numerous fellowships and professional honours including, Young Associate (2024) of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Saroj Poddar Young Investigator Award (2021 to 2023) by Indian Institute of Science with support from Saroj Poddar Trust and Donald Coles Prize (2016) for the PhD thesis in Aeronautics at Caltech that displays the best design of an experiment or experimental equipment, among others.

NDTV World Summit 2026

The NDTV World Summit 2026, scheduled for October 22 and 23 in New Delhi, will bring together policymakers, world leaders, technology experts and academics under the same roof to discuss global issues. 

The theme of this year's summit is "A World Between Orders".