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Faculty Members of Department of Mechanical Engineering

Core Faculty

 

  Dr. Suhas S. Joshi

Professor, Director

 Room No.609; Silicon Building
Email: ssjoshi[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603130
 Research Interests:

  • Modeling machining of ‘difficult-to-machine’ materials (MMCs, Inconel, Titanium)
  • Modeling and development of micro-machining processes.
  • Laser micro-machining, LIGA and Nano-polishing.

 

 

 

Dr. Anand Parey
Professor		 Room No. 623; Silicon Building
Email: anandp[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603234
Research Interests:

  • Condition monitoring
  • Noise and vibration isolation
  • Signal Processing of Mechanical Systems
Dr. Neelesh Kumar Jain
Professor (HAG)

Room No. 612; Silicon Building
Email: nkjain[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603327
Homepage
Research Interests:

  • 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
  Dr. Bhupesh Kumar Lad
Professor		 Room No. 619; Silicon Building
Email: bklad[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603235     Homepage
 Research Interests:

  • Reliability Engineering
  • Assessment Management
  • Prognostics
Dr. Devendra Deshmukh
Professor		 Room No. 618 B; Silicon Building
Email: dldeshmukh[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603231
Research Interests:

  • Internal combustion engines
  • Biofuels
  • Spray and combustion diagnostics
  Dr. I. A. Palani 

Professor

 Room No. 616; Silicon Building
Email: palaniia[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603232 Homepage
Research Interests:

  • Optical instrumentation
  • Mechatronics System Design
  • Laser assisted synthesis and characterization of Nano structures for functional devices
Dr. Kazi Sabiruddin
Associate Professor		 Room No. 621 A; Silicon Building
Email: skazi[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603236
Research Interests:

  • Surface Engineering, Manufacturing
Dr. Ritunesh Kumar
Professor		 Room No. 625; Silicon Building
Email: ritunesh[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603237
Research Interests:

  • Desiccant Cooling Systems
  • Renewable Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  Dr. Santosh K. Sahu
Professor, Head of the Department		 Room No. 613; Silicon Building
Email: santoshk[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603238     Homepage
Research Interests:

  • Thermal Engineering
  • Thermal hydraulics
  • Multi phase flows
Dr. Satyajit Chatterjee
Associate Professor		 Room No. 618 A; Silicon Building
Email: satyajit[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603239
Research Interests:

  • Surface Technology
  • Coatings Tribology
  • Solid Lubrication
Dr. Shanmugam Dhinakaran
Professor		 Room No. 621 B; Silicon Building
Email: sdhina[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603240     Homepage
Research Interests:

  • Bluff body flows
  • Heat transfer in porous media
  • Nanofluids
   

Dr. Shailesh I. Kundalwal
Associate Professor
Applied and Theoretical Mechanics (ATOM) Lab

  

Room No. 620; Silicon Building
Email: kundalwal[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603284     Homepage
Research Interests:

  • Computational Nanomechanics of Solids
  • Finite Element Analysis of Composites
  • Nanomechanics & Micromechanics of Composites
  • Nanotechnology in Engineering
  • Smart Materials and Structures
Dr. Indrasen Singh 
Assistant Professor		 Room No. 622; Silicon Building Email: indrasen[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603282
Research Interests:

  • Computational solid mechanics
  • Metallic glass, Nanoglass
  • Frature mechanics
  • Mechanical behaviour of materials
  • Finite element methods
Dr. Yuvraj Kumar Madhukar
Assistant Professor		 Room No. 614; Silicon Building Email: yuvrajmadhukar[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603294
Research Interests:

  • Laser Material Processing
  • Water Assisted Laser Processing
  • Additive Manufacturing
Dr. Pavan Kumar Kankar
Associate Professor		 Room No. 615; Silicon Building

Email: pkankar@iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 731-6603427   HomePage
Research Interests
  • Fault Diagnosis of Mechanical Components
  • Condition Based Maintenance
  • Machine Learning
  • Signal Processing
    Dr. Girish Chandra Verma         

Assistant Professor

Room No. 714, Silicon Building

Contact :  +91 731-6603208                                                      Email: girish.verma[at] iiti.ac.in
Research Interests:

  • Machining processes,
  • Abrasive based finishing process,
  • Ultrasonic-assisted machining process and Additive manufacturing
Dr. Harekrishna Yadav
Assistant Professor		  

Room No. 713, Silicon Building
Contact: +91 731-6603209
Email: krishnpme [at] iiti.ac.in,               krishna.04p@gmail.com
Research Interest:

  • 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
 

 

Dr. Satyanarayan Patel
Assistant Professor

  

 

Room No. 712, Silicon Building
Contact :+91 731-6603216
Email: spatel [at] iiti.ac.in
Research Interests:

  • Energy conversion, storage and harvesting materials
  • Solid State Refrigeration
  • Piezoelectric, Pyroelectric and ferroelectric materials
  • Energy Engineering
 

 

 

 Dr. Dan Sathiaraj
Assistant Professor		 Room No. 711, Silicon Building
Contact : +91 731-6603217
Email: dansathiaraj [at] iiti.ac.in
Research Interests:

  • 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
Dr. Ankur Miglani

Assistant Professor

 

 Room No. 715, Silicon Building

Phone: +91 731-6603220

Email: amiglani[at]iiti.ac.in

 
Research Interests:

  • 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

 
Dr. Ashish Rajak

Assistant Professor

 

 Room No. 617, Silicon Building    Contact: +91-731-6603285

Email: a.rajak [at] iiti.ac.in

 
Research Interests:

  • High strain rate material processing, electromagnetic: forming, welding, crimping, cladding, hemming, powder compaction, explosive welding, vaporizing foil actuator

 

 

Dr. Krishna Mohan Kumar

Assistant Professor

 

 Room No. 524, Silicon Building Contact: +91-731-6603359

Email: kmkumar [at] iiti.ac.in
Research Interests:

  • Acoustics of Ducts and Mufflers;
  • Industrial Noise and Vibration Control;
  • Automotive Noise Control; and Designing for Quietness;

 
 

Dr. Sandeep Singh

Assistant Professor

 

 Room No. 525, Silicon Building Contact: +91-731-6603356

Email: sandeeps [at] iiti.ac.in
Research Interests:

  • Solid mechanics and design,
  • Finite element method,
  • Theory of plates and shells,
  • Computational material science,
  • Multiscale modelling of nanomaterials
      Dr. S Janakiraman

Assistant Professor

  

Room No. 202-B, Titanium Building

Contact: +91-731-660-3378

Email:  janakiramans [at] iiti.ac.in
  Research Interests:

  •  Energy Storage Materials,
  •  Lithium & Sodium – ion Batteries,
  •  Polymer Electrolytes, Composites,  & Thin Film Batteries.
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Dr. Vijai Laxmi

Assistant Professor

 

 

 Room No. 202-B, Titanium Building

Contact: +91-731-660-3174

Email: vijai.laxmi [at] iiti.ac.in

 
Research Interests:

  • Microfluidics
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Development of lab-on-a-chip/organ-on-a-chip models for healthcare purposes
  • Low-cost and bio-inspired micro fabrication techniques

 

 

Adjunct Faculty

Profile
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

Profile
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

Profile
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)