About Kripa Varanasi
Kripa Varanasi is co-founder and chairman of Infinite Cooling, where he also serves as a board member. Infinite Cooling uses real-time monitoring and AI analytics to improve cooling performance. He is a mechanical engineering professor at MIT. His research examines engineered surfaces, interfaces, and coatings for energy, water, and other industries. Varanasi is also AgZen's co-founder and chairman. AgZen's RealCoverage system measures and controls spray coverage on leaves. He is an Alsym Energy co-founder. Alsym Energy is building nonflammable sodium-ion batteries in the United States. He has also co-founded LiquiGlide and DropWise.
Before joining MIT's faculty, Varanasi was a lead researcher and project leader at GE Global Research. He earned a B.Tech from IIT Madras and an SM and Ph.D. from MIT. His honors include the NSF Career Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, and ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Heat Transfer Award. Other honors include Boston Business Journal's 40 Under 40, DOE's National Cleantech University Prize, and the MIT 100K Award. He also received the ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award and MIT's Frank E. Perkins Award for graduate advising. Time and Forbes named LiquiGlide among their best inventions of the year.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Kripa Varanasi in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Kripa Varanasi works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
