• Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering IIT Kharagpur

• Presiding Officer, Internal Complaints Committee (ICC)

• Chairman, CRF (Material Science Division)

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Prof. Dutta Majumdar is well known internationally for her research contribution in the field of Metallurgical and Material Engineering with focus on surface engineering and laser surface processing. She made fundamental contributions to a profound understanding of the metallurgy of rapid solidification of metals under the specific heat input of a laser source. Her works also concern a detailed structure-property correlation of laser surface modified metallic materials with a specific goal to improve certain engineering properties. She also stated a brief understanding of the mechanism of wear, corrosion and high temperature oxidation of the metastable microstructures developed in commercial metals and alloys due to laser processing. Extensive efforts were also made for the first time for the development of compositionally graded surface and nano-dispersed surface for thermal barrier and hot corrosion application by application of hybrid coating technology.

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• Professor, Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, IIT Kharagpur

• Chairman, Materials Science Division, Central Research Facility

• Head, School of Nano-Science and Technology

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Prof. Rahul Mitra received B.Tech (Hons.) in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1988 and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA in 1992. Thereafter, he joined the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory at Hyderabad as scientist, and in 2002 he moved to Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he is a Professor and Head of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering department and School of Nano-Science and Technology. He has also been on sabbatical to carry outresearch at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois and University of Southern California. At IIT Kharagpur, he has worked on several sponsored projects with net worth of more than INR. 150Million(USD 2 Million) as Principal Investigator, and supervised 18 PhD students. His research is focused primarily on processing as well as structure-property relations of silicide based intermetallic alloys, ultra-high temperature ceramicmatrix composites as well as Carbon-fibre reinforced composites with emphasis on deformation and oxidation behavior for nearly three decades.His research interests also includeprocessing and mechanical behavior of lightweight metal-matrix composites as well as nanocomposite thin films.His research has involved significant use of transmission electron microscopy to study interfaces, microstructural evolution and deformation behavior of materials. As a teacher, he has contributed to education for use of transmission electron microscopy techniques as research tool. Heis recipient of the Materials Research Society Medal in 2003, and the Metallurgist of the Year award (Metal Science Category)from the Ministry of Steel, Government of India in 2014. He has been elected as the fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2016 and that of the Electron Microscopy Society of India in 2017. He has so far156publications in peer reviewed journals, 8 book chapters, and two patents (h-index: 33 by Google Scholar). Furthermore, hehas authored a book with the title, “Structural Intermetallics and Intermetallic Matrix Composites” published in 2015 by CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, and has also edited a book with the title, “Intermetallic Matrix Composites: Properties and Applications”. He is also a member of the Editorial board of Sadhana, published jointly by Springer and Indian Academy of Sciences.

• Head, Laser Additive Manufacturing Lab

• Dean- Student Affairs, Homi Bhabha National Institute

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Dr. C P Paul is leading a research group in area of Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM) as Head, Laser Additive Manufacturing Laboratory at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT). He has over 15 years of experience in research and development of LAM, from system development to its applications in engineering and prosthesis. His research programs focus on next generation additive manufacturing system and processes. To this end, his group explores novel techniques to develop advanced materials, innovative products, modeling and simulation tools, and holistic in-situ and ex-situ characterization techniques. He is instrumental in promoting LAM technology in India through collaborations with other national labs and reputed academic institutes by extending the indigenous developed facility for experiments. He has contributed chapters to twelve books and published over 100 research papers. His extensive experience and leadership have allowed him to address LAM challenges holistically and promoting this strategic research area. His efforts have been recognized with many awards by Indian and Canadian Governments:

· The indigenous development of first Metal LAM machines in India (for both schemes - Direct Energy Deposition and Powder Bed Fusion) is at his credit and is awarded with DAE-Group Achievement Award for the year 2015.

· As recognition to exemplary works in the development and deployment of laser baser metal additive manufacturing, he has been conferred with highest DAE Excellence in Science, Technology and Engineering award "Homi Bhabha Science & Technology Award" for the year 2017.

· NSERC-Discovery Research Grant (Individual) award for repair of Tungsten carbide tools in the year 2007 by Canadian Govt. during his stay at the University of Waterloo.

· Ontario Centre of Excellence -Conference Travel Award during the year 2006 by Ontario Provential Government for the laser additive manufacturing process development.

Director, National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology, Ranchi

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Professor Partha Protim Chattopadhyay obtained Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering degrees from University of Calcutta in 1984 and 1989, respectively and obtained the PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2000. Professor Chattopadhyay served in Hindustan Motors Lmited, Uttarpara, West Bengal as Foundry Engineer from 1985-90 and as Promotion Officer in Ministry of Industries (SISI), GoI during 1990-91. Subsequently, he joined erstwhile Bengal Engineering College and served in different capacities including Professor and Head of Metallurgy and Materials and Engineering and Dean (Faculty of Engineering and Technology) in Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur. Professor Chattopadhyay has supervised 11 doctoral scholars and published about 127 papers in international Journal of repute and 36 peer reviewed papers in conference proceedings. He has received several awards out of which worth mentioning are guests scientist under the funding of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz program at University of Ulm, Germany (2001-02), Commonwealth Academic Fellowship award at University of Cambridge in 2004, Metallurgist of the year award by Ministry of steel (GoI), Eminent Engineer award by The Institution of Engineers (India) in 2014 and MRSI Medal in 2014. He has acted as Principal and Co-Principal Investigator of different research projects amount in about Rs. 9 crores. He is member of several professional bodies including Council Member of Indian Institute of Metals and Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India). His research interest includes phase transformation in metal and alloys and microstructure property correlation of materials.

Associate Professor, ME, IIT Guwahati

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Dr. Swarup Bag completed his Bachelors’ of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India in the year 2000, M.E. in Mechanical Engineering in 2002 from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, India (now Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology) in the year 2002, and Ph.D on “Development of Bi-directional Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Model for Reliable Design of GTA and Laser Welding Processes” in 2009 from IIT Bombay. Later he has worked at the Center for Material Forming (CEMEF), MINES Paris Tech, France for 20 months in Metallurgy, Structure and Rheology (MSR) group. In the year 2011, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati as a faculty member. He worked as a visiting scholar at Center for Advanced Materials Joining, University of Waterloo, Canada from May 2018 - July 2018. His primary area of research is fundamental process modeling of welding and joining technologies, optimization of manufacturing processes and recrystallization in metal forming processes. Dr. Bag has published about 50 journal papers, 50 Conference papers, and 10 book chapters related to welding and joining processes. He is the author of the book ‘Computational models for GTA and laser welding processes’ and recipient of ‘Royal Arc Award 2009’ from Indian Institute of Welding for the best PhD thesis in welding.

Till now, five students have received doctorate degree and seven research scholars are working under his guidance. Thirteen M. Tech projects and 11 B. Tech projects have completed so far. Two research projects have completed so far in his credit.

Research Interest

Fusion welding processes, Finite element method, Laser microjoining, Heat transfer and fluid flow in fusion welding, Residual stress and distortion, Recrystallization in hot metal forming process, Optimization in manufacturing process

Head Materials Chemistry, CSIR_IMMT.Bhubaneswar

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