People

  1. The group outside the Joining and Additive Manufacturing Laboratory

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Postdoctoral fellows (3)

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Dr. Nikhil Vinayak Thawari

Additive manufacturing of forging tooling

Dr. Savyasachi N

Additive manufacturing of high temperature components for micro nuclear reactor applications

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Dr. Tilak J.V.

Hybrid additive manufacturing

PhD scholars (22)

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Mr. Shakti Swaroop Choudhury

Modelling of powder spreading behaviour in laser powder bed fusion process by discrete element method

Co-guide; together with Prof. Ratna Kumar Annabattula (primary guide), Dept. of ME

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Mr. Jag Parvesh Dahiya

Additive manufacturing of novel CoCrMoFe alloys for maxillofacial and dental implants

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Mr. Kishoore Kumar S

High strain rate deformation behaviour of titanium deposited with copper by directed energy deposition and cold spray

Guide; Joint Doctoral Programme with Ecole Centrale Nantes, France, co-guide Prof. Guillaume Racineux

Mr. Pravin Roy

Fatigue behaviour of thick-section aluminium alloy welds for cryogenic space applications

Co-guide; together with Prof. H.S.N. Murthy (primary guide), Dept. of AE

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Mr. Akshay Kumar Chaturvedi

High temperature fatigue behaviour of dissimilar superalloy welds

Guide; together with Prof. S. Sankaran (co-guide)

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Mr. Gurbarn Singh

Electrical resistance welding of linepipe steels

Guide; Joint Doctoral Programme with University of Alberta, Canada, co-guide Prof. Patricio Mendez

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Mr. Vishwas Swarnkar

Fractal based path planning strategies to minimise residual stress and distortion during laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing

Co-guide; together with Prof. G. Saravana Kumar (primary guide), Dept. of ED

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Mr. Sumit Katiyar

Fatigue behaviour of additively manufactured H13 tool steel components

Co-guide; together with Prof. S. Ganesh Sundara Raman (primary guide)

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Mr. Aman Mohtta

Improving stretch flangeability by additive patch working of advanced high strength steels

Co-guide; together with Prof. Uday Chakkingal (primary guide)

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Mr. Tousif Anwer

Laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing of IN718-YSZ functionally graded composites

Prime Minister’s Research Fellow

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Mr. Devendra Nagpure

Stress relaxation in electric-assisted deformation

Co-guide; together with Prof. K. Hariharan (primary guide), Dept. of ME

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Mr. Sherin Thampi

Electro-plastic annealing of additively manufactured aluminium components

Prime Minister’s Research Fellow; Guide; together with Prof. K. Hariharan (co-guide), Dept. of ME

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Mr. Kesava Murthy Pakala

Role of electron beam pulsing on distortion mitigation during welding of titanium alloys

Guide; together with Dr. Ch. Sreenivasa Rao (co-guide), LPSC Bengaluru, ISRO

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Mr. Revanth Metla

Beam shaping in laser powder bed fusion

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Mr. Ayyappadas C

Stretch flangeability studies in aluminium alloys

Co-guide; together with Prof. Uday Chakkingal (primary guide)

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Mr. Zaheen Zahoor Banday

Laser powder bed fusion of pure copper components for induction heating applications

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Mr. Muzammil Aizaz

Development of light-weight high temperature alloys for additive manufacturing

Guide; Joint Doctoral Programme with TU Darmstadt, Germany, co-guide Prof. Eckhard Kirchner

Mr. Aravind P

Hydrogen embrittlement in additively manufactured components

Co-guide; together with Prof. Lakshman Neelakantan (primary guide)

Mr. Sailesh Kamath

Laser powder bed fusion of CM247LC alloys – process development and creep analysis

Co-guide; together with Prof. Ravi Sankar Kottada (primary guide)

SK Ansar Ghousiya Nahid

Laser powder bed fusion of niobium alloys

Guide; together with Dr. Vijay (co-guide), ARCI Hyderabad

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Ms. Anjali Rathish

Repair and remanufacturing of high speed steel tooling

MS scholars (1)

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Mr. Vishaal Harikrishna K

A novel high carbon tool steel for additive manufacturing – from alloy design to industrial applications

Thesis submitted

M.Tech and dual degree students (2)

Mr. Pothula Suresh

Design for additive manufacturing of a die casting mandrel with conformal cooling channels

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Ms. Shivanjali Sambhaji Gunjal

Surface roughness mitigation during laser powder bed fusion of stainless steel aerospace components

Alumni

Postdoctoral fellows

  1. Dr. Shiva Sekar, currently Assistant Professor, IIT - Jammu, India.
  2. Dr. Chenna Rao Borra, currently Assistant Professor, IIT - Kharagpur, India.
  3. Dr. Jitendra K. Tiwari, currently INSPIRE faculty, IIT - Bombay, India.
  4. Dr. Basil Mathai, currently Marie Curie Fellow, University of Leeds, UK (jointly with Prof. G. Saravana Kumar).
  5. Dr. Rajeev G.P., currently with Super Auto Forge, Chennai, India.
  6. Dr. Arun G, currently post-doctoral fellow, IIT - Madras, India (jointly with Prof. Manas Mukherjee).
  7. Dr. Sandhya Verma, currently Assistant Professor, NIT - Jaipur, India.

PhD graduates

  1. Dr. Melwin Sajan (2022), currently at R&D and SS, Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, India. Co-guided with Prof. Uday Chakkingal.
  2. Dr. Sudharsanan S (2023) – Engineering safe weld microstructures against hydrogen embrittlement. Co-guide: Prof. G.D. Janaki Ram.
  3. Dr. Jai Tiwari (2023) – Modelling of electroplastic deformation behaviour. Co-guided with Prof. K. Hariharan.
  4. Dr. Mookara Rama Kishore (2024) – Microstructure development during arc-wire directed energy deposition of IN625 components.
  5. Dr. S. Prakash (2024) – Micro-plasma arc wire directed energy deposition for additive patch working of AHSS.
  6. Dr. N. Pradeep (2024) – Data driven modelling of arc wire directed energy deposition additive manufacturing process. Co-guided with Prof. G. Saravana Kumar.
  7. Dr. S. Mithra (2025) – Carbide-free bainitic ultra high strength steels for improved hydrogen cracking susceptibility.
  8. Dr. Soma Maji (2025) – Mathematical modelling of solidification microstructure evolution during laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing.
  9. Dr. Bindu Pal (2025) – High cycle fatigue behaviour of resistance spot welded advanced high strength steels.
  10. Dr. Vivek Kumar Singh (2025, IIT Bombay) – Additively manufactured Inconel 718 by LPBF and LW-DED. Co-guided with Prof. Sushil Mishra and Prof. Shyamprasad Karagadde.

MS graduates

  1. Shakti Swaroop Choudhury (2021) – now a PhD scholar in the group.
  2. E. Nivatha – Arc wire DED additive manufacturing of biodegradable magnesium implants.
  3. Ashutosh Panda – Retained austenite and hydrogen embrittlement in bearing steels. Co-guided with Prof. P. Ramkumar.
  4. Amit Pathak – Additive manufacturing of functional features on extruded aluminium components.

M.Tech and dual degree

  1. L. Dinesh Kumar (2017) - Steel Authority of India Ltd, Rourkela Steel plant, India.
  2. K. Venkatesh (2018) - PhD Student, CMU, USA.
  3. N. Divya (2018) - ARCI - Hyderabad, India.
  4. Viswanath A V R (2019) - William O'Neil India - Bengaluru, India.
  5. Justin Baby (2019) - Cochin Shipyard, Kochi, India.
  6. Wg Cmdr Prajul Katoch (2020) - Indian Air Force.
  7. Kappala Madhusoodan (2020)
  8. Radha Yanamandra (2021) - Applied Materials.
  9. Binoy Mathew (2021)
  10. Achuth Chandrasekhar (2022)
  11. Tharun Jogula (2022) - Masters student, IIM Calicut.
  12. Meher Teja V (2022) - Aditya Birla STC, Mumbai.
  13. Jithu Antony (2022) - LPSC, ISRO Valiamala.
  14. P. Rajendra Babu
  15. Shreya Reddy V.G. (2023)
  16. Sqn Ldr A. Karmalkar (2023) - Indian Air Force.
  17. Muzammil Aizaz (2023) - now a PhD scholar in the group.
  18. Rajinikanth Kanakam (2024)
  19. Sadarla Anudeep (2025)
  20. Peddamallu Jagadeeswara Reddy (2026)

B.Tech projects

  1. R. Aditya Chintapalli (2017)
  2. R.B. Manoj (2017)
  3. Krishna Changlani (2018)
  4. R. Sandeep (2018)
  5. Joseph Ravi Teja R (2019)
  6. Alexander David (2021)
  7. Ashish Jacob Abraham (2021)
  8. Abhishek N.S.