[7][note 1] D. V. Khakhar, born on 7 April 1959 in Mumbai in the Indian state of Maharashtra, graduated in engineering (BTech) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1981 and moved to the US to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from where he secured a PhD in 1986[8] working on Fluid mechanics of laminar mixing: dispersion and chaotic flows under the guidance of Professor Julio M. Ottino.
He returned to India to join the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) as a member of faculty in 1987[9] where he is a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering.
[10] At IITB, he served as the Professor-in-Charge of Continuing Education Program (2001–02), as the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering (2002–04), and as the Dean of Faculty Affairs (2005–08).
Method for improving particulate mixing and heat transfer in tumbling mixers and rotary kiln,[17] Polyurethane Foam−Clay Nanocomposites: Nanoclays as Cell Openers,[18] and Reticulated Vitreous Carbon Controlled Pore Size and Enhanced Electrical Conductivity.
[19] On the academic administration front, during his tenure as the director of IIT Bombay, the faculty strength of institute recorded a 25 percent increase and three new centres viz.