About Associate Professor Farouk

Tanvir Farouk is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of South Carolina, Columbia. He received his MASc (2004) and PhD (2009) from University of Toronto and Drexel University respectively. His doctoral work on non-thermal plasma discharge earned him the prestigious National Science and Engineering Research council of Canada (NSERC) post-doctoral fellowship award. He was awarded the Irvin Glassman Young Investigator award by the Combustion Institute in 2013 for his work on “Cool Flames” and was invited to be a member of NASA’s Science and Definition for Microgravity Experiments from 2014 – 2016 and also serves in the panel on “Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space 2023-2032”. He was awarded the Young Investigator Award (2018) and Breakthrough Star Award (2016) from the University of South Carolina. In 2019 he was awarded the Ralph Teetor Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers. For his contribution to plasma treated surface functionalization of composites he received the NASA Group Achievement Award in 2020. His research has been supported by DARPA, DOE, DOD, NASA, NSF, Boeing and Holtec.

ReActing System and Advanced Energy Research (RASAER) Lab is primarily dedicated in investigating both fundamental and applied aspects of Plasma, Combustion and Advanced Thermofluids. Our work comprises of modeling, simulations and experiments to understand important aspects of aforementioned research topics. The results and discoveries of our research have far reaching consequences in fields ranging from integrated circuit manufacturing, fossil fuel reforming, reduction in pollutant emission, low temperature “Cool Flame” combustion etc.