Research Associate

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Dr. A. Viswanathan
Dr. Viswanathan is a PhD in Physics from National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
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Dr.Delhibabu Prabhu
Dr. Prabhu is a PhD in Physics from University of Madras, Chennai.

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Dr. Chandan Srivastava
Dr. Srivastava completed his Bachelors of Technology in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2003 from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee followed by a M.S. from University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA. He then completed his PhD there in 2009. Subsequently he joined the department as a centenary post doctoral fellow after which he was apointed a faculty member in the department.

Doctor of Philosophy

Pambannan Padaikathan

Padaikathan is an associate member of the Indian Institute of Metals (AMIIM, 1995) after which he did a MSc. (Engg) in 2005. Currently he is a Scientific Officer in the department. He joined the group for a Ph.D. as a staff registrant in 2007. He completed in March 2016.

Saurabh Dixit
Saurabh completed his Bachelor of Technology in Materials Science and Engineering from C.S.J.M. University Kanpur in year 2009. He was also a Junior Research Fellow at Bhabha Atomic Research Center from 2009 to 2010. Subsequently he joined the institute for a Ph.D which he completed in March 2016.
Dhanalakshmi Palanisamy
Dhanalakshmi completed her M.Tech in Nanotechnology from Anna University of Technology, Tamilnadu in year 2010 followed by which she joined the institute for a Ph.D. She completed in February 2016.
Surendra Kumar M
Surendra completed his Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from National Institute of Technology Rourkela in year 2007. Before joining the institute for a PhD in 2010, he was a Production engineer with HINDALCO Industries Ltd from 2007 to 2009. He completed his PhD in February 2016.
Olu Emmanuel Femi
Femi did his Bachelor of Sciences in Physics from Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria in 2008 followed by M.Sc in Material Science from African University of Science and Technology, Abuja Nigeria in 2010. He joined the institute for a Ph.D. in August 2010. He belongs to the first batch of international students being administered the International Student Fellowship by the institute. He completed his PhD in November 2015.
Sukla Mondal
Sukla completed her Bachelor of Engineering in Metallurgical Engineering from Jadavpur University in year 2004 followed by a short stint as a Junior Research Fellow at National Metallurgical Laboratory Jamshedpur from 2005 to 2006. Subsequently she obtained a M.Tech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from National Institute of Technology Durgapur. Before joining the institute for a PhD in January 2009, she was a project assistant at the department for a short period from July 2008 to December 2008. She completed her PhD in November 2015.

Dulal Chandra Jana
Dulal is a Scientist C at the Center for Non-Oxide Ceramics, International Advanced Research Center for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI). He joined the institute for a Ph.D. in 2007 and completed in March 2015.

Chandrasekhar Tiwari
Chandrasekhar completed his Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from National Institute of Technology Durgapur in year 2008. Before joining the institute for a PhD in 2009, he was a Management Trainee with MECON Limited from 2008 to 2009. He completed his PhD in November 2014.

Kirtiman Deo Malviya
Kirtiman is a Master of Sciences in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. In August 2008, he joined the institute for a PhD. He completed his degree in August 2014.

D R K Sidharda
Sidharada completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Vasavi College of Engineering (Osmania University Hyderabad) followed by a M.Tech. in Manufacturing Engineering from the National Institute of Foundry and Forging Technology, Ranchi. He was an Asst. Professor at NIMRA College of Engineering, affiliated to JNTU Hyderabad from 2000 to 2004. He joined the institute for a Ph.D. in 2004 and completed in August 2014.

Shailesh Kumar Singh

Shailesh has done his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal followed by which he had a brief stint at Mahindra and Mahindra group as an Assistant Manager. In 2008, he joined the institute for a PhD and completed in July 2014.
Althaf Basha
Althaf is a Bachelor of Sciences in Mathematics from Osmania College, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh followed by which he did M.Sc. in Physics from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathy Andhra Pradesh. In 2008, he joined Indian Institute of Science for a PhD. He completed by May 2014.

Shyam Kanta Sinha
Shyam completed his Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from University of Burdwan in 2006 followed by a Masters of Science in Chemistry from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal. He joined the institute for a PhD in 2008 and completed in February 2014.

Chandan Mondal

Chandan completed his Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical Engineering from Jadavpur University in 1998. Subsequently he did his Master of Engineering in Materials Engineering from IISc in 2000. He joined the institute as an external Ph.D. student in 2006. Currently he is Scientist D at Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DRDO, Hyderabad). He completed his PhD in August 2013.

Mithun Palit
Mithun completed his Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical Engineering from Bengal Engineering College in year 2002. Subsequently he joined Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (Defence Research and Development Organisation) as a Scientist B. He joined the institute as an external Ph.D. candidate in 2006. Currently he is Scientist D at DMRL. He completed his PhD in May 2013.

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Sanjay Kashyap .
Sanjay completed his B.Sc in 2000 from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla followed by a M.Sc. in Physics from Barkatullah University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. He further did a M.Tech. in Materials Science in 2004. He joined the institute in 2005 for a PhD and completed in July 2011.

Chitra Selvaraj
Chitra joined the institute for her Ph.D. in August 2003 and graduated in December 2009. Her thesis is titled Structural Evolution of Ag based alloy under mechanical milling. Currently she is a Scientist with Cookson Electronics.

Joyita De (2009), Thermoelectirc Properties of Manganese and Ytterbium filled Cobalt Antimonide(CoSb3).

Udaya Bhat K. (2008), Studies on Dissimilar Metal Welding

Subhradeep Chatterjee (2006), Microstructure development during laser and electron beam welding of Ti/Ni dissimilar joints.

Krishanu Biswas (2005),Rapid Solidification Behaviour of Fe-Ge Intermetallic compounds.

Victoria Bhattacharya (2005), Synthesis and Phase Transformation Behavior of Nano Alloys Embedded in Al.

Gandham Phanikumar (2002), Experimental and computational studies on laser processing of dissimilar metals.

Viji Varghese (2001),A study of the role of mechanical energy on the kinetics of reactions and transformations in the solid state.

Sandip Baysakh (2001), Pulsed laser abalation deposition of intermetallic thin film: A study of evolution of metastable phases and ultra-fine microstructures.

Prajina Bhattacharya (2000), Synthesis, morphology, and phase transformation of the metallic embedded nanoparticles and multilayers.

Dheepa Srinivasan (1999), Phase evolution, thermal stability, and hardness of melt spun nanocrystalline Al-X-Zn (X = Si, Cu, Ni) alloys.

Tania Bhatia (1997), Phase evolution of MgO-MgAl2O4 system under non-equilibrium processing conditions.

N. Ravishankar (1997), Mechanism of phase formation and magnetic properties of nanocrystalline materials.

R. Nagarajan (1995), Metallic and nanostructured titanium-nickel and titanium-nickel-aluminium alloys.

Bhaskar Majumdar (1995), Thermodynamics and Microstructural Development in Immiscible systems processed through different routes.

Ramasis Goswami (1993), Microstructure, solidification, melting, and transport properties of nanodispersoids in immiscible alloy systems.

Chitralekha Jacob (1993), Structure and property investigation of tellurium and tellurium based alloys prepared under different conditions.

K. Raviprasad (1991), Microstructure evolution during ordering and magnetic properties of rapidly solidified Fe-Si alloys.

V. Thiruvenkateswami (1989), Non-equilibrium solidification of pure metals (Al, Cu, Ni)-Bismuth, eutectic Al-Cu, and peritectic Al-Cu alloys.

N. K. Mukhopadhyay (1989), Some aspects of synthesis, structure, and stability of quasicrystals.

N. Thangaraj (1987), Electron microscopy of quasicrystalline phases in aluminium-manganese and aluminium-palladium alloys.

Master of Engineering

Amit Kumar Sawant
Amit completed his Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in April 2012 from College of Engineering, Pune. In August 2013, he joined the institute for his ME..
Chandan Kumar
Chandan completed his Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2011 from Birsa Institute of Technology, Sidnri, Dhanbad. He was a GET at Hindustan Moters Ltd. from July 2011 to March 2012. Subsequently he joined the institute for a M.E. in August 2012.
Madhawan Chandrawanshi
Madhawan completed his Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from National Institute of Technology Raipur in year 2009. Subsequently he was an Assistant Manager at Sterlite Industries India Ltd. (Vedanta) from 2009 to 2011. He joined the institute in 2011 for a Master of Engineering. He graduated in July 2013.
Prafull Pandey
Prafull completed his Bachelors of Technology in Metallurgical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Raipur in the year 2010. Subsequently he joined the institute for a Master of Engineering, in the same year. He graduated in July 2012.

Kundan Kumar
Kundan completed his B.Sc. (Engg.) in Metallurgical Engineering from BIT Sindri, Dhanbad in 2009. Subsequently he joined the institute for a Master of Engineering and graduated in 2011.

Jai Prakash

Jai Prakash completed his Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology Ranchi in year 2009. Subsequently he joined the institute for a master of engineering and graduated in 2011.

Proloy Nandi (2010)

Vetrivendran E (2009), Microstructure and Mechanical properties correlation study of rapidly solidified Zn-Al-Cu and Al-Cu-Si ternary eutectic alloys.

Vijaypal Shivran (2008), Synthesis, Characterization and Mechanical Testing of (AlGaIn)30(CoCuNiAg0.5 )40(SnPbSbBi)20 (TiV)10 High Entropy Alloy.

Praveen Kumar (2007), Development of High Strength Ni-Ti-Ta Ternary Eutectic Alloys.

Ratnabhupala Reddy P (2006), Studies on melting temperature depression for Sn-Ag-Cu and  Sn-Zn solder alloys by mechanical alloying/milling.

Amitesh Madeshia (2005), Glassy phase embedded in crystalline matrix.

Abhijit Pramanick (2004), Microstructural characterisation of laser cladded Al-Sn alloy.

Swati Biswas (2003), Mechanical Alloying in ternary Ag-Cu-Fe system.

Sreekant Roy (2002), Development of microstructure and triboligical properties of Al-Si-Bi clad and Al-Si on Cu substrate.

Atish Roy (2002), Evolution of microstructure in undercooled near eutecttic Cu-Cu3P alloys

Suresh Kumar Kotum (2001), MIG welding of copper with mild steel filler material.

Suchismita Sanyal (2001), Microstructural development in laser cladding and remelting of Al-Si-Bi on Al-Bi substrate.

Mainak Biswas (2000), Studies on reaction ball milling of aluminium and copper sulphate pentahydride system.

Suman Kumar Mitra (2000), Investigation of the synthesis of bulk metallic glass in Zr-Ni-Ti and Cu-Ni-Al alloy systems.

Krishanu Biswas (2000),Development of quasicrystalline coating Al-Cu-Fe system by laser cladding and detonation gum process.

T. S. Vishnu Kumar (1999), Deposition and characterization of multiplayer of bismuth and amorphous Al-Fe-Si system by electron beam evaporation.

Anindya Poddar (1999), Microstructural development of aluminium-silicon-bismuth alloy using laser beam.

R Balachandran (1998), Laser surface alloying of nickel on aluminium substrate.

Kalambhatti K. Prashanth (1998), Laser surface cladding of copper on iron substrate.

Ratna Pal (1998), Synthesis and characterization of finely dispersed Pb in aluminium.

Nilanjana Bhattacharya (1997), Investigation of synthesis of metallic foams by powder metallurgy route.

Bikramjit Basu (1996), Laser surface cladding of intermetallics on iron substrate

Finnely David Gilbert (1995), Directional solidification of a ternary monotectic system In-P-Zn.

Srikanth Nandy (1994), A comparative study of the influence of zirconia in non-equilibrium processed alminium rich alluminium alloys.

Prajina Bhattachraya (1994), Synthesis and characterization of SiO2-Pb and Al2O3-Pb nanocomposites prepared by sol-gel method.

L. Sridharan (1994), Evolution of microstructure in unidirectionally solidified zinc-lead monotectic alloy.

Laxmidhar Besra (1993), A comparative study on the microstructural development under different solidification process conditions in a system showing submerged missibility gap: A case of Zn-Sn binary alloy.

Biswajit Tripathy (1992), Microstructural evolution in near eutectic Al-Co alloy.

Shiv Brat Singh (1992), Preparation, characterization, and hardness studies on nanodispersed Zn-10 wt % Bi alloy.

Venugopal K. (1988), Solidification of melts in a flowing melts: A model study.

Manoi Gupta (1987), Quasicrystal in aluminium-lithium-copper system.

K. Sree Kumar (1987), Studies on the early stages of hardening in aluminium-lithium alloys.

Arun Kumar Srama (1986), Studies on age hardening behavior of lithium containing alluminium alloys.

Sanjay Kumar Duha (1985), A search for a metastable miscibility gap in Zn-In system.

 

G. Kannayairam (1985), Undercooling of eutectoid alloys.

S. Vasudevan (1983), Influence of manganese additions on austenitic spheroidal graphite in iron.

E. Ramadasan (1983), Active eutectoid decomposition in hypoeutectoid zirconium-nickel alloy

Master of Science (Engineering)

R. Chitra (2006),Synthesis of Cr3Si by mechanical alloying and mechanically activated annealing process.

R. Bhowmick (2004), Zr-based BMG: A study of processing, welding and subsurface deformation mechanisms

Joyita De (2003), Thermoelectric behavior of nanoscale Ag-Te alloys obtained by mechanical alloying.

Saumyadeep Jana (2002),Surface deformation during indentation of bulk metallic glasses.

Victoria Bhattacharya (2000), Study of friction and wear behavior of nano-embeded alluminium alloys

Sharad Chandra Sharma (1998), Indegenous development of a constant modulus alloy for hemispherical gyroscope, processing, properties, and performance.

Dheepa Srinivasan (1996), Growth morphology and coarsening of metastable Al3Zn in melt spun Al-Ni-Zr alloys.

Sandip Bysakh (1995), Development of laser ablation technique for intermetallic thin films and application to Al-Fe alloys.

N. Ravishankar (1993), Early stage plate growth in Cu-Zn alloys: An attempt at the resolution of the banite controversy.

Ramasis Goswami (1988), Lengthening kinetics in alpha plates in Ti-5.9 at% alloy.

Debashis Dutta (1987), Development and evolution of silicon carbide particulate reinforced aluminium composites.

Anand W. Bhagwat (1985), Phase transformations in Ti-7.9 at% Nb alloy.

Bachelor of Engineering

1) M. B. Arabhavi

Title: The impact of rapid solidification on the precipitation kinetics of Al-Cu alloys.(1986)

2) N. Chandran

Title: Friction and wear characteristics of mrtals Ni78Si08B14. (1985)

3) J. P. N. Srivastava

Title : Existance of metastable miscibility gap in zinc-tin system. (1985)

4) U. Sudarsan

Title: Wear of metallic glasses. (1984)

5) Sambhulal Agarwala

Title: Undercooling of eutectic alloys. (1984)

6) V. A Ravi ,

Title: Studies of metastability in laser surface melted aluminium alloys.(1983)