Prof. Raghu Prakash
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Office: Room # 209, Machine Design Section
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai 600 036, India.
Tel (O): +91 44 2257 4694 / 2257 5687 (Lab)
Email: raghuprakash@iitm.ac.in
Webpage: https://home.iitm.ac.in/raghuprakash
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Academic Biography
Prof. Dr. Raghu V. Prakash is with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) at Chennai, India; He has more than three decades of post-PhD work experience, starting his career as a Scientist at CSIR-NAL; Technical Director of a start-up company in Bangalore, India; Visiting Professor/Scientist at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan before joining IIT Madras as a Faculty in 2004
His research interests include Product design, Mechanical Design of structures and components, Experimental techniques for durability assessment under real-time usage, crash assessment of automotive structural elements. Prof. Prakash has guided 64 Master’s dissertations, 20 Master’s (M.S.) thesis and 14 Ph.D. theses since 2004. He has more than 100 journal, chapter publications (many in ASTM STP’s) and more than 100 Conference publications; he has edited 7 book volumes and a couple of special issues of Elsevier Journals. He teaches courses such as Design with Advanced Materials, Product Design, Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA), Introduction to Fracture Mechanics apart from being a researcher and consultant to several Industries.
Prof. Prakash is a voting rights member of ASTM International (Technical Committees, D-30, E-08 and E-28), former Chair of the Materials Processing Technical Committee of the Materials Division of ASME (2018-20), and executive council member of a number of professional societies. He serves in the Editorial boards of a handful of Journals, and as a Regional Editorial Board Member for an Italian Journal. He is active in organizing topics for the ASME Materials Division since 2009 and has been the Track Chair for the ASME India IMECE 2025 held at Hyderabad, India.
Dr. Prakash received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras (now Chennai); Master’s degree (by Research) and Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is a member of several technical societies (ASTM, ASME, ICF) and has won several prestigious awards (Binani Gold Medal, 1997; Distinguished Fellow of ICCES, 2015), scholarships and Erasmus-Mundus Fellowships (2013; 14).
He has initiated academic MoU's with Universities in Europe, USA and Australia. He has organized a number of International conferences in India since 2013. As part of the academic exchange visitor programs, he invited reputed academics from USA, Italy and Australia to IIT Madras under the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) and Scheme for Promotion of Academic Research Collaboration (SPARC) of MoE, Government of India. He currently heads a project under the Institute of Eminence (IoE) scheme of the IIT Madras sponsored by the Ministry of Education (GoI).