TEACHING/MENTORING

Research guidance

  1. Co-supervising Mr MM Hassan of University of New Mexico for his PhD dissertation work.

  2. Co-supervised Mr Sumit Chhangani from University of Rajasthan for his Masters' thesis on magnetic properties of nanocrystalline nickel-cobalt alloys. (Sumit is now a researcher at DRDO, India).

  3. Guided Mr S Nagaraju from Andhra University (now a Research Scientist at BARC), Mr Nikhil Jain from Vellore Institute of Technology (now a grad student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and Mr Bhargav Varma from Andhra University (now a software professional at Infosys) for their summer internship projects.

Teaching

  1. Co-instructor for the undergraduate courses, NE515008 (Special Topic: SEM-FIB characterization) in Spring 2021 and NE371 (Nuclear Materials Engineering) in Spring 2019 at the University of New Mexico.

  2. Instructor for introductory lectures on X-ray diffraction for the undergraduate laboratory course at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

  3. Instructor in the workshop, ‘Structural Characterization in the Materials Science’ organized by NRC-M of University Grants Commission, India.

  4. Teaching assistant for the course, ‘Texture and grain boundary engineering’ at the Dept. of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India.