Rohith Mittapally
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 515-5293
- Email: rmittap@ncsu.edu
- Office: Engineering Building III (EB3) 3296
- Website: https://www.mittapallyetl.com/
Dr. Rohith Mittapally is an Assistant Professor who joined NC State in Fall 2025. He received his B.Tech and M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to joining the faculty at NC State, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
His research focuses on developing innovative approaches to address energy management challenges, ranging from semiconductor-scale systems to industrial renewable power generation. By leveraging expertise in precision metrology, nanofabrication, and theory-guided analysis, his work aims to advance the understanding of thermal radiation and phase change phenomena. This fundamentals-driven research has promising applications in energy conversion, thermal management for emerging photonic, electronic, and quantum systems, and energy storage. Recently, his work also focused on theoretical advances and low-cost, scalable solutions for solar desalination, radiative cooling, and atmospheric water harvesting.
Outside of research, he enjoys traveling, hiking, reading, and analyzing movies.
