Department of Mechanical Engineering

People

Faculty Members of the Department of Mechanical Engineering

Core Faculties:	Research Interests:	Office Location & Contact:
	Modeling machining of ‘difficult-to-machine’ materials (MMCs, Inconel, Titanium) Modeling and development of micro-machining processes. Laser micro-machining, LIGA and Nano-polishing.	Room No.609; Silicon Building Email: ssjoshi[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603130
Dr. Suhas S. Joshi Professor, Director
	Condition monitoring Noise and vibration isolation Signal Processing of Mechanical Systems	Room No. 623; Silicon Building Email: anandp[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603234
Dr. Anand Parey Professor
	Additive Manufacturing of High Melting Point Materials, Surface Modification and Joining of Thin Sheets by µ-PTA Process High Quality Gear Finishing by Advanced ECH, PECH, AFF Sustainable and Green Manufacturing of Gears Near Net-shape Manufacturing of Meso-sized Gears Advanced and Hybrid Machining Processes, Micromachining and Nano-finishing Processes Process Selection, Modeling and Optimization of the Manufacturing Processes	Room No. 612; Silicon Building Email: nkjain[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603327 Homepage
Dr. Neelesh Kumar Jain Professor (HAG)
	Reliability Engineering Assessment Management Prognostics	Room No. 619; Silicon Building Email: bklad[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603235 Homepage
Dr. Bhupesh Kumar Lad Professor
	Internal combustion engines Biofuels Spray and combustion diagnostics	Room No. 618 B; Silicon Building Email: dldeshmukh[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603231
Dr. Devendra Deshmukh Professor
	Optical instrumentation Mechatronics System Design Laser assisted synthesis and characterization of Nano structures for functional devices	Room No. 616; Silicon Building Email: palaniia[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603232 Homepage
Dr. I. A. Palani Professor
	Desiccant Cooling Systems Renewable Energy Heat Transfer	Room No. 625; Silicon Building Email: ritunesh[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603237
Dr. Ritunesh Kumar Professor
	Thermal Engineering Thermal hydraulics Multi phase flows	Room No. 613; Silicon Building Email: santoshk[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603238 Homepage
Dr. Santosh K. Sahu Professor
	Bluff body flows Heat transfer in porous media Nanofluids	Room No. 621 B; Silicon Building Email: sdhina[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603240 Homepage
Dr. S. Dhinakaran Professor, Head of the Department
	Surface Engineering, Manufacturing	Room No. 621 A; Silicon Building Email: skazi[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603236
Dr. Kazi Sabiruddin Associate Professor
	Surface Technology Coatings Tribology Solid Lubrication	Room No. 618 A; Silicon Building Email: satyajit[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603239
Dr. Satyajit Chatterjee Associate Professor
	Computational Nanomechanics of Solids Finite Element Analysis of Composites Nanomechanics & Micromechanics of Composites Nanotechnology in Engineering Smart Materials and Structures	Applied and Theoretical Mechanics (ATOM) Lab,Room No. 620; Silicon Building Email: kundalwal[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603284 Homepage
Dr. Shailesh I. Kundalwal Associate Professor
	Fault Diagnosis of Mechanical Components Condition Based Maintenance Machine Learning Signal Processing	Room No. 615; Silicon Building Email: pkankar@iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603427 HomePage
Dr. Pavan Kumar Kankar Associate Professor
	Laser Material Processing Water Assisted Laser Processing Additive Manufacturing	Room No. 614; Silicon Building Email: yuvrajmadhukar[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603294
Dr. Yuvraj Kumar Madhukar Assistant Professor
	Computational solid mechanics Metallic glass, Nanoglass Frature mechanics Mechanical behaviour of materials Finite element methods	Room No. 622; Silicon Building Email: indrasen[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 731-6603282
Dr. Indrasen Singh Assistant Professor
	Machining processes, Abrasive based finishing process, Ultrasonic-assisted machining process and Additive manufacturing	Room No. 714, Silicon Building Contact : +91 731-6603208 Email: girish.verma[at] iiti.ac.in
Dr. Girish Chandra Verma Assistant Professor
	Experimental Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Fluid Structure Interaction, Shear Flow, Flow and Turbulence Measurement using Optical Techniques, Heat Transfer Enhancement, Renewable and Sustainable Energy	Room No. 713, Silicon Building Contact: +91 731-6603209 Email: krishnpme [at] iiti.ac.in,
Dr. Harekrishna Yadav Assistant Professor
	Energy conversion, storage and harvesting materials Solid State Refrigeration Piezoelectric, Pyroelectric and ferroelectric materials Energy Engineering	Room No. 712, Silicon Building Contact :+91 731-6603216 Email: spatel [at] iiti.ac.in
Dr. Satyanarayan Patel Assistant Professor
	Medium to High entropy alloys Severe plastic deformation (SPD), Recrystallization and grain growth study Micro, Nano- machining of MEAs and HEAs Surface modification Engineering (SMAT, Laser Shot-peening, etc) Mechanical and functional property study	Room No. 711, Silicon Building Contact : +91 731-6603217 Email: dansathiaraj [at] iiti.ac.in
Dr. Dan Sathiaraj Assistant Professor
	Combustion of next-generation fuels: Gel fuels and nanoparticle laden fuels Thermal management of power-dense electronics: Flow boiling in microchannels Microfluidics: Flow freezing in microchannels Soft-matter: Instabilities in drying colloidal droplets	Room No. 715, Silicon Building Phone: +91 731-6603220 Email: amiglani[at]iiti.ac.in
Dr. Ankur Miglani Assistant Professor
	High strain rate material processing, electromagnetic: forming, welding, crimping, cladding, hemming, powder compaction, explosive welding, vaporizing foil actuator.	Room No. 617, Silicon Building Contact: +91-731-6603285 Email: a.rajak [at] iiti.ac.in
Dr. Ashish Rajak Assistant Professor
	Acoustics of Ducts and Mufflers; Industrial Noise and Vibration Control; Automotive Noise Control; and Designing for Quietness;	Room No. 524, Silicon Building Contact: +91-731-6603359 Email: kmkumar [at] iiti.ac.in
Dr. Krishna Mohan Kumar Assistant Professor
	Solid mechanics and design, Finite element method, Theory of plates and shells, Computational material science, Multiscale modelling of nanomaterials	Room No. 525, Silicon Building Contact: +91-731-6603356 Email: sandeeps [at] iiti.ac.in
Dr. Sandeep Singh Assistant Professor
	Energy Storage Materials, Lithium & Sodium-ion Batteries, Polymer Electrolytes, Composites & Thin Film Batteries.	Room No. 202-B, Titanium Building Contact: +91-731-660-3378 Email: janakiramans [at] iiti.ac.in
Dr. S Janakiraman Assistant Professor
	Microfluidics Fluid mechanics Development of lab-on-a-chip/organ-on-a-chip models for healthcare purposes	Room No. 205-A, HUB Building Contact: +91-731-660-3174 Email: vijai.laxmi [at] iiti.ac.in
Dr. Vijai Laxmi Assistant Professor
	Core Research Interest: Artificial Intelligence Probability and Statistics Applied Research Interest: Smart Manufacturing Cyber-Physical Systems Prognostics and Health Management Reliability Engineering	Room No. 202-B, Titanium Building Contact: +91-731-660-5580 Email: vibhorpandhare [at] iiti.ac.in
Dr. Vibhor Pandhare Assistant Professor

Adjunct Faculty:

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Name	Igor Sevostianov
Designation	Distinguished Professor at New Mexico State University
PhD	St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Email Address	igor@nmsu.edu
Biography	Prof. Igor Sevostianovcompleted his PhD. from St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He is a Dwight L. and Aubrey Chapman Distinguished Professor at New Mexico State University and an Adjunct Professor at IIT Indore. His research interests are Micromechanics, Biomechanics, Advanced manufacturing, Contact mechanics, Multi-physics phenomena in solids, Inverse problems, and Mechanics of viscoelastic solids.
Areas of Expertise	Fluid Mechanics (Theory, Experiments, and CFD), Heat Transfer (Theory, Experiments, and Computations), System Design.
Research Project	Mechanisms of amplification and damage in three- and four-phase aluminum matrix composites (Funded by NIH, Germany).

VAJRA Faculty

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Name	Amitabh Narain
Designation	Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University, USA
PhD	University of Minnesota
Email Address	narain@mtu.edu
Biography	Professor Amitabh Naraincompleted his PhD. from University of Minnesota,USA. He is a Professor at Michigan Technological University, USA and Visiting Advanced Joint Research (VAJRA) Adjunct Faculty at IIT-Indore, India – a program initiated by the Department of Science and Technology of Government of India..He is a Fellow of the ASME, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Heat Transfer, and Director of the Energy-Thermo-Fluids area in his department. His current research areas deal with state-of-the-art experimental and computational techniques for single-phase and phase-change (flow-boiling and flow-condensation) flows, particularly those related to energy technologies such as thermal management and power generation applications.
Areas of Expertise	Fluid Mechanics (Theory, Experiments, and CFD), Heat Transfer (Theory, Experiments, and Computations), System Design.
Research Project	Research and education partnership for the development of innovative flow-boiling and thermal-systems – with emphasis on data-centres and power-plants

SPARC Faculty

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Name	YogeshwarNath Mishra
Designation	Researcher at California Institute of Technology
PhD	Lund University, Sweden
Email Address	yogeshwar.mishra@fau.de
Biography	Dr.YogeshwarNath Mishra completed his PhD. from Lund University, Sweden. He is a researcher at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and an Adjunct Professor at IIT Indore under SPARC scheme. His research interests are Light sheet imaging, Laser Spectroscopy, Structured illumination flow and Combustion
Areas of Expertise	Fluid Dynamics, Microfluidics, Combustion, Optofluidics
Research Project	Structured Illumination for Turbid and Turbulent Environments (SITTE)