Dr. Sankar is a Regents Professor and Sikorsky Professor at the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. As Director of the School's Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab, he leads a research and education program focused on the modeling and simulating unsteady viscous flow around aircraft, helicopters, horizontal axis wind turbines, and turbo-machinery components. He teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in the areas of aerodynamics, helicopter theory, wind energy, aerodynamic design, and computational aerodynamics.

Dr. Sankar is the author or co-author of more than 300 technical publications in the fields of spatially and temporally high-order algorithms, 3-D unsteady transonic flow over aircraft configurations, helicopter aeromechanics, compressor stall and surge, wind energy, and aerodynamic design. He is an AIAA Fellow, a Technical Fellow of the American Helicopter Society, and a member of the American Society of Engineering Educators and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.