Dr. Chandrakant Kumar Nirala
Associate Professor
Office: #322, Satish Dhawan Block, IIT Ropar
Research Areas: Conventional and Non-conventional manufacturing, Surface texturing and modeling of macro-and micro cutting, EDM, µEDM and variants, Micro Manufacturing, Tool condition monitoring through virtual instrumentation, Machine learning and Micro-friction stir welding.
Email: nirala@iitrpr.ac.in
Phone: +91 188123 2357(0), 7357(R)
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Biography
Dr. Chandrakant K. Nirala has been working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical, Materials, and Energy Engineering at IIT Ropar since May 2017. Prior to working at IIT Ropar, he worked for The LNM Institute of Information Technology Jaipur, India, for almost a year as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical-Mechatronics Engineering. He began his research career at the National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur (CSIR) in 2008 by working on the Development of Lighter Metallic Materials for Engineering Applications. After working for a year, he took a strategic career move for higher studies and completed his M.Tech and Ph.D. His research interests span both conventional and non-conventional manufacturing. The research began with Real-time tool condition and process monitoring, sensor-based signal processing, optimization, and feasibility study. In the real-time monitoring arena, he has developed an On-machine Tool Wear Monitoring and Compensation System for Micro Electro Discharge Machining, and the key contributions at many stages have been published in several international journals. While continuing the real-time condition monitoring for non-conventional processes, he has contributed through the new findings in conventional machining and also through new approaches to modeling experimentations.
Education:
PhD: Indian institite of technology Patna, India (2016)
M.Tech: Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India (2011)
B.Tech: Gov. Engineering College Bhagalpur (BCE Bhagalpur), India (2008)
Work Experience
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, from May 2017
The LNM Institute of Information Technology Jaipur: Worked as Assistant Professor from July 2016 to May 2017 in the department of Mechanical-Mechatronics Engineering.
National Metallurgical Leboratory (CSIR), Jamshedpur: Worked as Project Assistant from Oct 2008 to Aug 2009.
