Mechanical Faculty

Name: Dr. J. Krishnaiah, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)
Designation: Associate Professor
Email: krishnaiah@iiitk.ac.in  |  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.

Name: Dr. Muvvala Pullarao, Ph.D. (IIT Madras)
Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I)
Email: muvvala@iiitk.ac.in  |  Phone: 08518-289205
Area of Interest: Thermal Management of Electronics; Impinging jet cooling; Solar thermal energy; Battery cooling; Phase Change Materials; Optimization studies.

Name: Dr. Mani Prakash, Ph.D. (TU, Dortmund, Germany)
Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I)
Email: smp@iiitk.ac.in  |  Phone: 08518-289204
Area of Interest: Smart Materials, Solid Mechanics, Constitutive Modeling & Continuum Mechanics.

Name: Dr. Akhtar Khan, Ph.D. (NIT Rourkela)
Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I) & HoD
Email: akhtar@iiitk.ac.in  |  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.

Name: Dr. Vipindas K., Ph.D. (NIT Calicut)
Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I)
Email: vipindas.k@iiitk.ac.in  |  Phone: 08518-289209
Area of Interest: Conventional machining, Metal cutting, Micro machining, Micro end milling, Micro turning, Machining of composites, Surface texturing.

Name: Dr. Ravi Kumar Mandava, Ph.D. (IIT Bhubaneswar)
Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I)
Email: ravikumar1013@iiitk.ac.in  |  Phone: 08518-289208
Area of Interest: Robotics, Soft Computing, Manufacturing.

Name: Dr. R. Seetharam, Ph.D. (NIT Warangal)
Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I)
Email: seetharam@iiitk.ac.in  |  Phone: 08518-289215
Area of Interest: Metal forming, Development of microstructure and constitutive models, Deformation behavior of lightweight metals, Ultra-lightweight HEA-based reinforced nanocomposites, Development of UFG structure of composites and SMA materials.

Name: Dr. C. Chandrasekhara Sastry, Ph.D.
Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I)
Email: chandrasekhar@iiitk.ac.in  |  Phone: 08518-289210
Area of Interest: Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Production Engineering, Electronic Packaging and Manufacturing.

Name: Dr. Aswani Pratap, Ph.D. (IIT Patna)
Designation: Assistant Professor (Grade-I)
Email: pratap@iiitk.ac.in  |  Phone: +91-9430983401
Area of Interest: Grinding, Time-dependent sub-aperture polishing, Shape adaptive grinding, Digital manufacturing.

Name: Dr. Somnath Dey, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Designation: Assistant Professor
Email: sdey@iiitk.ac.in  |  Phone: 08518-289207
Area of Interest: Vibrations, Dynamics and Control, Nonlinear Dynamics, Micro-scale Devices, Scanning Probe Microscopy.

Name: Dr. Anuj Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Indore)
Designation: Assistant Professor
Email: anuj@iiitk.ac.in  |  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.

Name: Dr. Pankaj Kaushik, Ph.D. (IIT Roorkee)
Designation: Assistant Professor
Email: kaushik@iiitk.ac.in  |  Phone: +91-7217456422
Area of Interest: Sustainable Manufacturing, Solid-state Additive Manufacturing, Dissimilar Metal Joining, Recycling of Manufacturing Waste.