Profile of Dr. Eswar Prasad

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor (November 2022 onwards), Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Indore

• Assistant Professor (July 2017 - November 2022), Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Indore

• Assistant Professor (2014-2017), School of Engineering, Mahindra Ecole Centrale Hyderabad

• Postdoctorate Fellow (2011-2014), Department of Mechanical Engineering & Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

• Project Assistant (2006-2008), Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

• Postgraduate Engineer (2004-2006), TVS Motor Company limited, Hosur

Professional recognition(s)

• Associate Editor, Sadhana Journal, Indian Academy of Sciences (Jan 2025- till date)

• Visiting Faculty, Mechanics Solids Structures and Materials laboratory, Centrale Superlec, France, June- July 2024

• Visiting Scientist, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, June 2022

• Member, Preliminary Review Committee, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, MHRD for the term 2018-19, 2019-20

• Guest Scientist,  Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (May - July, 2019)

• Belt and Road Overseas expert , School of Materials Science Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China (December 2017)

• Visiting faculty,  School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China (Dec 2017, May - July, 2018)

• Outstanding reviewer recognition, Journal of Alloys and Chemical Compounds (September 2017)

• Visiting Scientist, Mechanics Solids Structures and Materials laboratory, Centrale Superlec, France (June – July 2016, June – July 2017)

• Best oral presentation at NMD-ATM 2016 held at IIT Kanpur in the category of Science of metals and materials. 

• Listed in 33rd and 35th editions of Marquis Who's Who in World (2016,2018)

• Invited to attend a discussion meeting on Frontiers in Structural Materials Research organized by Indo-US Science Technology Forum (IUSSTF) at Coorg – India, Feb 2015

• Invited speaker for International Conference on Mechanical Properties of Materials, held at Hangzhou, China, May 2010

• One among the 14 research students to be selected from India to attend the JSPS-DST Asia Academic seminar held in Yokohama, Japan during December - 2009 (Two of my posters were selected as invited posters for this conference) 

• Best project of the year 2005 at TVS-Motor Company Ltd. (This was given for increasing durability of the gear box by 3 years)

• MHRD fellowship by the Government of India 2002-2004

• All India 16th rank in Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers (GATE - 2002)

• First Rank, B. Tech. Class of '02, NIT Warangal. 

• State 10th rank in Engineering Common Entrance Test (ECET - 1998) 

Service to Academia and Administration

• Nodal Coordinator - PMRF, Broad area of Metallurgical, Materials Science and Mining Engineering (May 2023 onwards)

• Convener, Chemical Engineering UG program at IIT Indore (September 2023 onwards)

• Convener, Makerspace IIT Indore (September 2022 onwards)

• Associate Dean Academic Affairs (PG & Ph.D.), IIT Indore (July 2020 - December 2023) 

• QIP Coordinator, IIT Indore (July 2020 to September 24, 2021)

• TEQIP Coordinator, IIT Indore (Jan 2020 - March 31, 2022)

• Convener COVID Taskforce, IIT Indore (November 2020 - March 2022)

• Convener PMRF selection committee (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

• DUGC Convener, Department of MEMS, IIT Indore (Jan 2020 - August 2020)

• Convener for High strain rate characterization of materials symposium at SICE 2020 held at IITB (December 2020)

• Guest editor Materials today proceedings (December 2020)

• Guest Editor, Special edition on Mechanics of Materials, International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (December 2020)

• Convener 11th ICMPC 2020, IIT Indore, December 15-17, 2020

• Convener, IT Team Convocation 2020, IIT Indore

• Convener, Workshop on R&D opportunities in ARMREB sector, August 26,2020

• Member, Preliminary Review Committee, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, MHRD for the term 2018-2019, 2019-2020

• Faculty adviser for Metacryst, the science and technology club of Department of MEMS, IIT Indore

• Faculty placement coordinator, Department of MEMS, IIT Indore, (2018-2019), (2020 - ) 

• Scientific committee member, International Workshop on Mechanics of Energy Materials (IWMEM 2018)

• Convener - Department website Committee (2017-2018), Department of MEMS, IIT Indore

• Curriculum committee member for new M.Tech programme in Metallurgy, Department of MEMS, IIT Indore 

• Executive committee board member, Mahindra École Centrale (2014 - 2017)

• Industry council member, Mahindra École Centrale (2016 - 2017)

• Curriculum Committee member, Mahindra École Centrale (2015 - 2017)

• Convener - Mechanics of Materials Seminar, Johns Hopkins University (2011-2012)

• Served as a Vice president - Materials Advantage chapter, IISc Bangalore (2010-2011)

Service to Academia as a reviewer to the following journals