Dr. Gajanan M Naik., joined the Mechanical Engineering Department of RV Institute of Technology (RVITM) Bengaluru as Assistant Professor, in 2021. Before joining RVITM, he had worked as Assistant Professor in MITE-Moodbidri, Mangalore for 2 years. Prior to that, he was working as JRF and SRF at NITK-Surathkal. He is awarded with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Surathkal, in the year 2020.  He had earned M-Tech in Manufacturing Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Surathkal, in 2016 and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from MIT-Kundapura in 2011. His area of interests are advanced machining, lightweight materials, severe plastic deformation and corrosion. Also, he has presented papers at various conferences in India and abroad and has published more than 80 papers in journals and conference proceedings. He has received best paper award from NIT-Trichy, India, in 2018, received Best Paper Award by ICDMC 2019, Vel. Tech. Rangarajan Dr Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, and received best poster award from Cochin University of science and technology Kerala, India, in Jan-2019. Received ownership for “Flipping type ECAP die” from Government of India. Reg. No: L-79923/2018.