Dr. Sawan S. Sinha is a professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India. He received his B.Tech. degree in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kanpur (2001) and his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University (Aerospace Engineering), College Station, Texas, USA (2009).

Besides being a faculty member at IIT Delhi, his professional experience from the past includes working as an engineer for Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO) during 2003-2004 and later as a post-doctoral Research Associate at Texas A&M University (2010-2012). Dr. Sinha has more than a decade-long teaching experience at IIT Delhi. He frequently teaches courses on Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics, Turbulence and its Modelling and Computational Fluid Dynamics, as well. Based on students' feedback, he has received Awards for Teaching Excellence at IIT Delhi (Turbulent Flows, 2013 and Fluid Mechanics, 2014).