Faculty

J D Sharma
Associate Professor
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
BE – Metallurgy ME – Industrial Materials & Metallurgy, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Management for Metallurgical Process waste, Transparent Ceramics, Conducting Ceramics and Thin Films, Materials Degradation and Selection, High Strain Rate Materials

Gaurav Pal Singh
Assistant Professor ( on contract )
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal), M.Tech. (Industrial Materials and Metallurgy, Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Chandigarh) and Ph.D. (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Ropar)
Research Interests:Nanofabrication, Plasmonics, Optical devices, Sensing for food safety, FEM simulations, Vibrational spectroscopy, Metamaterials, Blast mitigation technologies, CFD

Kaustubh Kambale
Assistant Professor
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
B.Tech. (College of Engineering Pune) , M.Tech. (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Ph.D. (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Research Interests:Piezoelectric ceramics, Solid electrolytes for batteries and fuel cells, Composite materials, Glasses and glass-ceramics.

Kiran Lata Bhaskar
Assistant Professor
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
BE (Metallurgy) Andhra University, Ph.D ( Academy of Scientific and Innovative research)
Research Interests:Extractive metallurgy, Chromite overburden, Utilisation of industry and mining waste for extaction of valuable metals, Thermal Plasma reactor

Roop Mahajan
Honorary Professor
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University), M.S. (Mechanical Engineering, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh), B.S. (Mechanical Engineering, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh)
Research Interests:Advanced Electronic Cooling, Two-Phase Flows, Porous Media, Graphene and 2D Materials, Biomedical Devices, Heat Transfer, Electronic Packaging, Sustainable Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Engineering Education.

Sumit Bhan
Assistant Professor (on Contract)
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering, UIET, MDU Rohtak), M.Tech. (Material Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur), Ph.D. (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Roorkee)
Research Interests:Physical Metallurgy of Steels, B2-strengthened Lightweight Steel, Alloy Design and Development, Thermomechanical Processing, Phase Transformation, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials and Materials Characterisation.

Suresh Chand
Assistant Professor
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
B.Tech. (Metallurgical & Materials Engineering-NITD), M.Tech. (Materials Science and Engineering-IITK)
Research Interests:3G Advanced High Strength Steel for Automotive industries,Brazing of metals (e.g: Ti and its alloys), Bulkultrafine nanostructured materials produced by ball milling and severe plastic deformation processes,structure,Aging of alloys,High Entropy Alloys

Suvankar Chakraverty
Adjunct faculty
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Ph.D. (Material Physics, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata), M.Sc. (Physics, University of Calcutta), B.Sc. (Physics, University of Calcutta)
Research Interests:Laser Molecular Beam Epitaxy (LMBE), Thin Films and Interfaces, Oxide Interfaces, Two-Dimensional Electron Gas (2DEG), Spintronics, Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling, Magnetic Skyrmions, Strain Engineering, Superlattices, Double Perovskite Oxides

Uma Batra
Professor & Head
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
B.E. (Metallurgy), M.Tech. (Metallurgy), PhD (Metallurgy)
Research Interests:Failure Analysis of Industrial Components, Corrosion and its mitigation, Austempered Ductile Iron Technology, Biomaterials, Ti-Alloy Bio Implants and Biodegradable Magnesium Alloys, Process Design, Structure-Property Correlation

Vibhor Chaswal
Assistant Professor
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
BE (Metallurgical Engineering) ,MS (Materials Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) PhD (Materials Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
Research Interests:Phase Transitions, Thermodynamics and kinetics. multiscale Material modeling, fracture, fatigue, dislocations theory, electron microscopy. solar cells, superalloys, biomaterials, nuclear materials, single crystals

Vishvendra Pratap Singh
Assistant Professor (on Contract)
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering, Uttarakhand Technical University Hamirpur), M.Tech. (Material Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur), Ph.D. (Material Science and Engineering, IIT Mandi)
Research Interests:Functional materials for water remediation, Piezoelectric materials and Glass ceramics.