His mother, Sushila Gaind Puri, was a pioneering anesthesiologist in New Delhi,[3][4] and his father, Krishan Kanwar Puri, completed his doctoral dissertation from University of Münster in 1955.[5][6]
Academic publications
The author of archival publications and books,[7][8] and patents,[9] Puri is listed among the top 0.4% of scholars among twenty nine million considered by ScholarGPS in terms of the impact of his publications.[10] He is listed among the top two percent of scientists in the Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators based on citations to his work.[11][12][13]
His books include Combustion Science and Engineering, CRC Press,[21]Advanced Thermodynamics Engineering,[22] and Environmental Implications of Combustion Processes.[23]
Career
Puri is Senior Vice President of Research & Innovation[24] at University of Southern California,[25] where he oversees the USC Office of Research and Innovation, where the research portfolio fhe is responsible for exceeds US$1 billion.[26] He has oversight over protection of human subject research, animal care and use for research, research integrity, research contracts and grants, research advancement, initiatives and facilities, research strategy and technology, intellectual property commercialization, and entrepreneurship and startup programs.[27][28]
Puri is also Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering with affiliate appointments in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science,[29] and Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering.[30]
Before his arrival at USC, Puri served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.[31] Upon his departure from McMaster, the university credited him with developing innovative approaches to engineering education and experiential learning, and furthering research.[32] Puri continues an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at McMaster.[33]
Prior to McMaster, Puri served as N. Waldo Harrison Professor and Department Head of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech from 2004-13.[34][35] He arrived there from the University of Illinois at Chicago after 15 years of service at various ranks, leaving as Professor and Executive Associate Dean of Engineering.
He has served as the elected chair of Engineering Deans Canada (formerly National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science).[41] In 2019, he was appointed as a member of the Council of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.[42][43]
Puri writes on issues at the intersection of science, technology, education and society.[48][49][50] His first publication was a book of poetry, Narcissus Wept,[51] where a reviewer notes, "He has something to say evidently and tries to say it with becoming gravity."[52]
^Baas, Jeroen; Boyack, Kevin; Ioannidis, John P. A. (2020-08-10). "Bibliometrics". Data for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Vol. 2. Mendeley. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.2.
^US application 20190127685, Fattah, Abdel Rahman Abdel; Sahu, Rakesh Prasad & Geng, Fei et al., "3D label-free contactless formation of cellular structures and co-cultures through diamagnetophoresis", published 2019-05-02, assigned to McMaster University
