Postdoc, Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute and Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
PhD, Department of Materials Engineering, IISc Bangalore
ME, Department of Metallurgy, IISc Bangalore
B. Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering, NIT Warangal
D.Met. E. in Metallurgical Engineering, Govt Polytechnic, Visakhapatnam
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
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)
Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Indore (July 2025 onwards)
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)
Acta Materialia
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
Scripta Materialia
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Journal of Materials Research
Materials Science and Engineering A
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
Mechanics of Materials
International journal of fracture
Ceramic International
Wear
Transactions Indian Institute of Metals
Scientific reports
International Journal of Applied Mechanics
Journal of Metals
Thin solid films
Bulletin of Materials Science
Composites part A
Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology
Polymer testing
Acta Imeko
Metals Materials International
Polymer composites