Professor Sahu is an Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering Researcher with active educational and research programs and joined as Faculty at IIT Bombay in 2019. Professor Sahu completed his Bachelor’s degree at Utkal University, M.Tech at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,  MS and PhD degrees in Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis 2011. He completed post-doctoral training at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining at IIT Bombay, he worked as Research Scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre from 2001-2006. He worked in Semiconductor and Chemical Industries in Process & Technology Innovation in USA (MEMC Electronic Materials, SunEdison, GCL Solar Materials, 2013-2018) and SABIC Industries (2018-2019) before returning to join IIT Bombay in 2019. 

He currently teaches course on Air Pollution Science and Engineering, and Air pollution Control Technology, and Data Analysis and Interpretation, Environmental Statistics. His research interest is on Aerosol Science and Engineering, Air Quality and Air Pollution Control technology, Data Science and AI application in Environmental engineering, Technology Development at Laboratory Scale and Scale-up for real-life applications. He has active collaborations with faculty from University of Miami, USA, University of Minnesota, USA, Albany Medical School, New York, Chemical Engineering Dept, IIT Bombay and Industrial collaboration with Tata Projects Ltd.