My name is Rahul Ramesh Kulkarni, and I am currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Foundry & Forge Technology (Formerly, Department of Forge Technology) at National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Formerly, National Institute of Foundry & Forge Technology) Ranchi in the state of Jharkhand and country India.

I completed my PhD from the department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2016.  I earned Master's degree in Materials Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka in 2008. I earned Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur affiliated to Shivaji University Kolhapur, Maharashtra in 2004.  My current areas of research are deformation behavior of materials, thermomechanical processing, Stress-strain analysis, forming processes and structure-property-process correlation with fracture and failure analysis of materials.