Ankur Gupta is our star B.Tech. student who will always be admired for his exceptional academic capabilities. He is the recipient of the prestigious President's Gold Medal (PGM) 2012 for the highest CGPA across all departments in IIT Delhi. Ankur also won many other awards during his stay at IIT Delhi namely the 2nd prize for Technical Paper Presentation at CHEMCON 2011 (largest annual Chemical Engineering conference conducted by IIChE), R.Vibhakar Memorial Award for academic excellence across all departments at IIT Delhi (2012), Kalpana Chawla scholarship for significant research contributions at IIT Delhi (2012), Freedom of House award for contributions to Satpura hostel life at IIT Delhi (2012) and the academic Semester Merit Award for all 8 semesters for being in the top 7% students at IIT Delhi. Ankur recently published a paper on 'Euler-Euler Simulation of Bubbly Flow in a Rectangular Bubble Column: Experimental Validation with Radioactive Particle Tracking' (Gupta and Roy, Chem. Eng. J. 2012, In press) and holds a Provisional Indian Patent on 'Design of a new static nixer based on swirl' with Prof. S.N. Singh, a faculty in the Dept. of Applied Mechanics at IIT Delhi. Ankur is currently pursuing a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Doyle.