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Dr. Neha Gupta is currently working as Assistant Professor in Department of Metallurgical Engineering, NIT Raipur. Previously she worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Material Engineering at Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Odisha, India from August 2014-May 2015. Before that she pursued her Post Doctoral Research in “Development of nano-composite structures (MWCNT-Epoxy) with enhanced thermo-mechanical properties, damping and self-sensing capabilities” at Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore from June 2013-August 2014. She earned her PhD from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (Jan 2010-Sept 2013). Before that she was a pass-project associate working on p-MUT fabrication in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore from Aug 2009-Dec 2009. Earlier she worked as Assistant Manager (awarded “Performance Par Excellence”) at Abhishek Industries Limited, Trident Group (Process & QC, Paper-I), Dhaula, Barnala, India (Jun 2007-Aug 2009). She attained her Masters in Technology (second university topper) in Materials Science and Engineering from Thapar University, Patiala, India (Aug 2005-Jul 2007) and obtained her Bachelors in Technology in Materials Engineering from Punjab Technical University (University topper), Jalandhar, India (Aug 2001-Jul 2005).

Her research interest includes cellular metals and ceramics, high temperature structural ceramics, armour ceramics, boride based structural applications, dynamic compression failure studies on ceramics, functionally graded ceramics and Carbon nanotube based composites for aerospace applications. Her PhD thesis entitled “Development of TiB₂-Ti based homogeneous/bilayered functionally graded armour materials and ZrB₂-SiC-TiSi₂ composites using spark plasma sintering”, was based on ceramic processing (high temperature and armour intermetallic composites based on TiB₂ and ZrB₂) and their characterizations (XRD, metallography, SEM, TEM, nanoindentation and other mechanical testing to observe the material behaviour in terms of static, ballistic and dynamic properties). The main focus area while processing of these materials was development of a bilayered graded ceramic structure along with studies related with the development of residual stresses in the layered design.