Bio Sketch

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati (Feb 2023-Till now)

• Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal (Sep 2022-Jan 2023)

• Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian  Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (March 2021- Sep 2022)

• Teaching Assistant, National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), Funded by the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India.                           

1.  Product Design and Development (04 Times) Course Link 

2.  Processing of Polymers and Polymer Composites (04 Times) Course Link 

3. Operations Management (03 Times)  Course Link 

4. Work System Design (03 Times) Course Link 

5. Manufacturing Guidelines for Product Design (01 Time) Course Link 

Educational Qualification

• Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

• M.Tech., National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli 

• B.E., Government Engineering College Raipur 

Awards/Honours

• Secured 1st position in the class of Mechanical Engineering (2007-2011) during B.E. at GEC Raipur.

• Travel Support funded by the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee for attending “10th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT-2019)” held in Singapore, June 22-29, 2019.

• MHRD Fellowship by Ministry of Education, Government of India, during Ph.D. (Dec 2014 to Dec 2019) and M. Tech. (July 2012 to June 2014).

Membership of Professional Society

• Member, South Asia Institute of Science and Engineering (SAISE) (Membership No: 20180414001), 2018

• Member, Materials Research Society (MRS) Singapore (Membership No: 3660), 2019

Short Term/Special Courses/Workshop/Seminar Attended

• Attended International Workshop on Design and Manufacturing of Composites for Engineering Applications Organized by IIT Mandi, Feb 1-5, 2021

• Attended Webinar on Revisiting CFD: An introduction to ANSYS Workbench, MATLAB, and OpenFoam Organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, PDPU Gandhinagar, Sep 15, 2020 

• Attended the full agenda of  American Chemical Society on Campus India Virtual Event organized by  American Chemical Society August 10, 2020

• Attended the online TEQIP-III sponsored six days online National Seminar on “Advances in Manufacturing, Materials and Modelling Process (AMMMP-2020)” organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katihar Engineering College, Katihar, Bihar, August 17-22, 2020

• Attended an international webinar on Research Writing & Publishing organized by AuthorCafé, July 7-9, 2020

• Attended pre-conference short-course program organized online as a satellite event of the ECCM19 Conference under the patronage of the European Society for Composite Materials (ESCM), June 22, 2020 

• Attended Indo-Belgium Workshop on “Emerging Trends in Smart Nanomaterials” at the Department of Physics, IIT Roorkee in association with K.U. Leuven, Belgium, December 2-3, 2019

• Attended workshop on “Training Session on Web of Science, EndNote & InCites” organized by Mahatma Gandhi Central Library, IIT Roorkee in collaboration with Clarivate Analytics, September 7, 2019

• Attended workshop on “Publishing in Academic Journals: An Author’s Workshop” jointly organized by Mahatma Gandhi Central Library, IIT Roorkee and Taylor & Francis Group, May 4, 2019

• Attended seminar on “Plagiarism and Impact of Research” organized by Mahatma Gandhi Central Library, IIT Roorkee, March 4, 2017

• Attended training workshop on “Reference Management Software-Mendeley” organized by Mahatma Gandhi Central Library, IIT Roorkee, January 29, 2017

• Attended workshop on “Author Workshop on Book Publishing” organized by Mahatma Gandhi Central Library, IIT Roorkee, in association with Elsevier, September 26, 2016.

• Attended QIP workshop on "Failure Prevention of Welded Structure Through Control of Residual Stress and Hydrogen Embrittlement" organized by Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee, March 05, 2016.

Miscellaneous

• A research article titled “PLA/Banana Fiber Based Sustainable Biocomposites: A Manufacturing Perspective” is listed among the most downloaded research articles in the journal Composites Part B: Engineering.

• Involved in writing and submitting a project under Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), MHRD, Govt. of India, in collaboration with the University of British Columbia, Canada.

•  Involved as an assistant in the development of suitable pedagogical methods for an undergraduate course, “Work System Design,” a project initiated by IIT Kharagpur and funded by MHRD, Govt. of India.

•  Assisted Ph.D. supervisor in guiding 03 M.Tech. and 03 B.Tech. thesis during the Ph.D. program.