Academic Pedigree and Heritage
EDUCATION
PhD, Material Science and Engineering, with Golden Eagle Award Dec 2017 (GPA 3.9/4)
Dissertation: Wear and corrosion behavior of bulk metallic glasses and single phase high entropy alloys
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
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Master of Science, Material Science and Engineering Dec 2015 (GPA 3.89/4)
Thesis: Effect of alloy composition, free volume and glass formability on the corrosion behavior of bulk metallic glasses
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
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Bachelor of Technology, Metallurgy and Materials Technology May 2010 (GPA: 8/10)
Thesis: Influence of rolling path on Microstructure and Mechanical properties in EB refined tantalum
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India
The Indian tradition places much emphasis on the tutelage traditions. My undergradaute professional mentor was Dr. J Viplava Kumar, who traces back his studentship all the way to Grand-old sire of Indian Metallurgy, Dr. T. R. Anantharaman (wiki), who was in turn a close collaborator of Prof. Sir Hume Rothery, who formulated the Hume Rothery Rules.
When I began my graduate career, I was pleasantly surprized to know that Dr. Sundeep Mukherjee was a student of Bill Johnson of CalTech. Bill was the Doctoral Student of Pol Duwez (wiki), the inventor of metallic glasses. Interestngly, Pol and TR were also close collaborators too! TR began his work in Metallic Glases when he visited Keck Lab and Pol too visited that day's India, and spent several days at BHU, which was rather remotely accessible.