Yogendra Joshi

Professor and John M. McKenney and Warren D. Shiver Distinguished Chair · Georgia Institute of Technology · company speakers →

Dr. Yogendra Joshi joined DARPA in July 2022 as a Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO), and has managed a portfolio of programs on thermal management. He is a professor and the John M. McKenney and Warren D. Shiver Distinguished Chair at Georgia Institute of Technology’s G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, with a courtesy appointment in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in multi-scale thermal management. Joshi is the author or co-author of more than 475 publications, including more than 230 journal articles. He received his Bachelor of Technology in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) in 1979, Master of Science in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1981, and doctorate in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. He has served as the principal investigator for multiple DARPA programs, and for the Office of Naval Research-led Consortium for Optimally Resource-Secure Outposts. He also previously was Site Director for the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems. Joshi is an elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), IEEE, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Society for Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning. He serves as Editor in Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology , and Vice President for IEEE Electronics Packaging Society. Joshi has been recognized for his contributions through the Inventor Recognition Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (2001), IBM Faculty Award (2008), the IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award (2011), ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2013), the AIChE Donald Q. Kern Award (2018), and multiple honors from IEEE.

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Speaking history

ASME Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition

15 June 2026 Milan, Italy “Emerging Heat Transfer Challenges in Information Processing, Sensing, and Communication”

ASME Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference

19 July 2026 Anaheim, United States “Three Decades of Microsystems Thermal Management Research at DARPA”

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