Mechanical Faculty

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Name: Dr. J. Krishnaiah, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)

Designation: Associate Professor
Date of Joining: 
Institute Email Id: krishnaiah (at) iiitk (dot) ac (dot) in
Institute Phone: 08518-289203
Area of Interest






: Applied Research and Development on data-driven systems to support industrial / business requirements in modeling, controlling and optimization based on Predictive Modeling, Advanced Control Techniques, Nontraditional Optimization, Pattern Recognition, Data mining, Information Retrieval, Document Classification, Analytics, Segmentation, Clustering & Classification, Image Processing, Handwritten/Optical Character Recognition.

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Name: Dr. Muvvala Pullarao, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)

Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I) 
Date of Joining: 
Institute Email Id: muvvala (at) iiitk (dot) ac (dot) in
Institute Phone: 08518-289205
Area of Interest: Thermal Management of Electronics; Impinging jet cooling.
  Solar thermal energy; Battery cooling; Phase Change Materials;       Optimization studies

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Name: Dr. Mani Prakash, Ph.D. (TU, Dortmund, Germany)

Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I) 
Date of Joining: 
Institute Email Id: smp(at) iiitk (dot) ac (dot) in
Institute Phone: 08518-289204
Area of Interest: Smart Materials, Solid Mechanics, Constitutive Modeling & Continuum Mechanics
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Name: Dr. Akhtar Khan, Ph.D. (NIT Rourkela)

Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I) & HoD
Date of Joining: 
Institute Email Id: akhtar (at) iiitk (dot) ac (dot) in
Institute Phone: 08518-289206
Area of Interest: Machining of “difficult-to-cut” materials, Machine Tool Technology, Optimization Methods in Engineering Design (Single and Multi-Objective), Design of Experiments & Multi-Criteria Decision Making.
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Name: Dr. Vipindas K., Ph.D. (NIT Calicut)

Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I)
Date of Joining: 
Institute Email Id: vipindas.k (at) iiitk (dot) ac (dot) in
Institute Phone: 08518-289209
Area of Interest: Conventional machining, Metal cutting, Micro machining, Micro end milling, Micro turning, Machining of composites, Surface texturing

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Name: Dr. Ravi Kumar Mandava, Ph.D. (IIT Bhubaneswar)

Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I)
Date of Joining: 
Institute Email Id: ravikumar1013 (at) iiitk (dot) ac (dot) in
Institute Phone: 08518-289208
Area of Interest: Robotics, Soft Computing, manufacturing.





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Name: Dr. R Seetharam, Ph.D. (NIT Warangal)

Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I)
Date of Joining: 
Institute Email Id: seetharam (at) iiitk (dot) ac (dot) in
Institute Phone: 08518-289215
Area of Interest: Metal forming, Development of microstructure and constitutive models, Deformation behavior of light weight metals, Ultra-lightweight HEA based reinforce nanocomposite materials, Development of UFG structure of composite and SMA materials.


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Name: Dr. C. Chandrasekhara Sastry, Ph.D.

Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I)
Date of Joining: 
Institute Email Id: chandrasekhar(at) iiitk (dot) ac (dot) in
Institute Phone: 08518-289210
Area of Interest: Additive Manufacturing; Advanced Manufacturing Processes; Production Engineering; Electronic packaging and manufacturing
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Name: Dr. Somnath Dey, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)

Designation: Assistant Professor
Date of Joining: 
Institute Email Id: sdey(at) iiitk (dot) ac (dot) in
Institute Phone: 08518-289207
Area of Interest: Vibrations, Dynamics and control, Nonlinear dynamics, Micro-scale devices, Scanning probe microscopy.

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Name: Dr. Anuj Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Indore)

Designation: Assistant Professor
Date of Joining: 
Institute Email Id: anuj (at) iiitk (dot) ac (dot) in
Institute Phone: 08518-289213
Area of Interest: Thermal Energy storage, Jet Impingement Cooling, Phase Change Materials, Porous Media, Battery Thermal Management, Inverse Heat Conduction, Gas Turbine Blade Cooling, CFD
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