Dr. M. A. Rafe Biswas is a NASA JSC Faculty Research Associate Engineer through a
cooperative agreement. His expertise and interest include thermal fluid science, control
theory, process and system dynamics, fuel cell systems, and engineering education.
He is a co-inventor of a patent on control architecture for direct methanol fuel cell
systems. He has also co-authored several journal and conference publications on various
topics including fuel cells, thermal management, software verification, and residential
building energy modeling. He is a member of ASME. Dr. Biswas received a Doctor of
Philosophy in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida and a Bachelor of
Chemical Engineering from Auburn University. He came on as an adjunct faculty in Fall
2013 prior to joining full time in January 2014.