Speaker's Profile
Prof. Naresh Bhatnagar
IIT-Delhi
Dr. Naresh Bhatnagar is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi. Professor Naresh Bhatnagar and his team lead a decade-long research and development of novel Dental Implants. They have developed multiple designs based on minimum stress generation (optimized using FEM analysis) for various dimensions and shapes and manufactured using state of the art ten axis precision CNC machining. Along with making dental implants, Prof Naresh also developed surgical and prosthetic accessories for doing the surgical procedures thereby enabling replacement of a missing tooth or the entire arch and complete restoration. They have generated multiple Indian and PCT patents on this topic and it has been funded by prestigious CSIR-NMITLI (New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative) program. Developing a human implant is a challenging task as safety and biological efficacy needs to be established in vitro, followed by an animal model and finally human testing. After successful animal and Phase 1 clinical trials at Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, the project is nearing completion of Phase 2 large clinical trials. This is a unique achievement for IIT Delhi and India to develop a medical product technology from scratch.
His research work is focused in the areas of FRP Composite materials, Processing and Manufacturing, Injection Molding, Biomaterials. He has published more than 93 papers in reputed journals.
Prof. Naresh Bhatnagar of Mechanical Engineering Department has been felicitated with the 7th National Award for Technology Innovation under the category of "Polymers in Public Health Care" of Petrochemicals and Downstream Plastic Processing Industry (2016-17), constituted by the Government of India, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. He shares the prize with his PhD student Dr K K Gaur, currently serving as a Scientist E in Defence Research and Development Organi sation (DRDO)Hq, Delhi.
Prof. Pulak Mohan Pandey
IIT-Delhi
Dr. Pulak Mohan Pandey is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi. Dr. Pulak M. Pandey completed his B.Tech. degree from H.B.T.I. Kanpur in 1993 securing first position and got Master’s degree from IIT Kanpur in 1995 in Manufacturing Science specialization. He served H.B.T.I. Kanpur as faculty member for approximately 8 years and also completed Ph.D. in the area of Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing from IIT Kanpur in 2003. He joined IIT Delhi as a faculty member in 2004 and is presently serving as Professor. In IIT Delhi, Dr Pandey diversified his research areas in the field of micro and nano finishing, micro-deposition and also continued working in the area of 3D Printing. He supervised 30 PhDs and more than 34 MTech theses in last 10 years and also filed 17 Indian patent applications. He has approximately 154 international journal papers and 45 international/national refereed conference papers to his credit. These papers have been cited for more than 4403 times with h-index as 33. He received Highly Commended Paper Award by Rapid Prototyping Journal for the paper “Fabrication of three-dimensional open porous regular structure of PA 2200 for enhanced strength of scaffold using selective laser sintering” published in 2017. Many of his B.Tech. and M.Tech. supervised projects have been awarded by IIT Delhi. He is recipient of Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship (IIT Delhi) sponsored by Kusuma Trust, Gibraltar and J.M. Mahajan outstanding teacher award of IIT Delhi. His students have won GYTI (Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award) in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2018.
Prof. Ravi Kumar, Digavalli
IIT-Delhi
Dr. D. Ravi Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engg., IIT Delhi. He obtained his Ph. D. from IIT Madras in 1996 and joined R&D, Tata Steel, Jamshedpur. He joined as a faculty at IIT Delhi in 1998. His research interests include Sheet Metal Forming and FE Analysis. He published over 40 research papers in national and international journals and conferences. Dr. Ravi Kumar won the Best R&D project award in Tata Steel for the year 1997-98. He was a visiting faculty at the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2005-06. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for Metal Forming Technology, University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2008. He received J.M. Mahajan award for the outstanding young teacher in Mechanical Engg. at IIT Delhi in 2008. He was principal investigator of sponsored research projects funded by DST, ISRO and DRDO and supervised several Ph.D. and M.Tech. theses.
Prof. Ravinderjit Singh Walia
Delhi Technical University
Prof. Rajesh Prasad
IIT-Delhi
Dr. Rajesh Prasad is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at IITD. He obtained his B.Tech. in 1984 from Metallurgical Engineering branch at, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi Ist. Div. With Honours, M.E. in 1986 in Metallurgy from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Ist Class with Distinction in which he received AA Krishnan Gold medal for the best M.E. Thesis.
He did his Ph.D. in 1991 from Materials Science and Metallurgy at University of Cambridge, UK. Thesis entitled: “Metastable Phases in Cr-Ti Alloys”
Prof. Zahid A Khan
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Prof Zahid A Khan is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Prof Zahid A Khan completed his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India in 2001. The title of his Thesis was Ergonomic investigations on human performance in HCI environment involving operations on Desktop and Laptop systems under the impacts of orgasmic variables and noise-induced stresses. He obtained his M.Sc. Engineering in Industrial and Production Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh in 1989. And also B.Sc. Engineering in Mechanical Engineering (1986) from Aligarh Muslim University in 1986.
His research work is focused in the areas of Production and Industrial Engineering, Optimization of design and manufacturing processes parameters, ANN & Fuzzy modeling, Quality Engineering, Ergonomics/Human Factors Engineering, Environmental Ergonomics.
He taught many subjects which includes Production Engineering, Manufacturing Sciences, Workshop Technology, Advance Manufacturing Processes, Advance Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Engineering, Quality Engineering, Engineering Economy & Management, , Manufacturing Systems, Elements of Mechanical Engineering, Ergonomics & Industrial Safety, Production & Operations Management (Production Planning, Facility Design), Operations Research (Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, Stochastic Processes), Application of Statistics in Research Methodology, and Managerial Economics. He also supervised no of Ph.D. scholars.
Ravinderjit Singh Walia is working as a professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Delhi Technological University. He published many articles in national and International journals. His research interests are Advanced Manufacturing Processes and Industrial Engineering.
Prof. Jayant Jain
IIT-Delhi
Dr. Jayant Jain is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi. Dr. Jayant Jain completed his B. Tech with Honours in Metallurgical Engineering from NIT Raipur, India. He obtained his M. Tech in Materials Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India in 2004 and PhD in Materials Engineering from University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 2010. He also worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Institute for Frontier Materials in Deakin University, Geelong, Australia till 2012. He joined Department of Applied Mechanics as an Assistant Professor in 2012.
His research work is focused in the areas of materials characterization, microstructure-property correlation, alloy design and control of microstructure and texture through processing. The work also includes investigation of nanoscale deformation, wear, creep and fatigue in novel materials.
Prof. A N Siddiquee
Dr. N Siddiquee is working as a professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Graduated from Govt Engg College, Jabalpur, India in Mech Engg; M Tech & PhD from IIT Delhi in Production Engg. Presently committed to grooming of Metrology & Micro measurement Lab and Production Engineering Lab at Mech Engg Dept, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Facilities include testing of Roughness & micro hardness, Micro-Image Analysis, Optical Microscopy, Electro-chemical Workstation, Production machines include Wire-EDM, Ultrasonic Assistance, VMM & Entire cell of standalone FSW facility.
He is a Recipient of National Merit Scholarship for Bachelor's in Engineering. He also Recieved Raja Ram Bapu Patil National Award for Promising Engineering Teacher (2004). His research interests are Welding Engineering, Manufacturing & Production Engineering, working with C++, HTML & RDBMS (Access), Programming of MACROs and Object Classes He has guided Doctoral Research of Ten Nos of students, Supervised more than 12 students of Master's Dissertation and Guided Bachelor's Projects more than 15 students.
Prof. Qasim Murtaza
Delhi Technical University
Dr. Qasim Murtaza is working as a professor in the department of Mechanical, Production and Industrial Engineering at Delhi Technological University. He got his PhD (2006) in the area of manufacturing process, funded by European Union as Research Assistant, from Metal Thermal Spray Lab, Dublin City University, Ireland. He published many articles in national and International journals. His research interests includes Manufacturing, Thermal spray coatings, Materials Engineering, Manufacturing Machines & Process Engg, Advance Manufacturing Process, Work Method Analysis & Measurements, Material science of Metal Cutting and Tool Design
Prof. Suresh Neelakantan
IIT-Delhi
Dr. Suresh Neelakantan is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi. Dr. Suresh Neelakantan joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics of I.I.T – Delhi since early 2016. Prior to that, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate on “Mechanical characterization of highly porous materials for bio-implant applications” at Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK, since 2011. Before moving to Cambridge, UK he pursued his PhD at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, and graduated in 2010. His PhD research work was on “Tailoring mechanical properties through plasticity induced transformation in metastable β titanium alloys”. Before his PhD he received his M.Sc. (Engg.) by research degree in 2004 for the study on “Aging effects on Cu-based Shape memory alloys properties” at Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Prior to his Master’s degree, he completed his B.E. degree in Metallurgical Engineering in 2001 at Government College of Engineering – Salem, affiliated with University of Madras, Chennai, India.
Dr. Suresh Neelakandan’s broad research focus/interest is on “Mechanical behaviour of advanced materials in bulk and porous forms”. Within that, his current research is focused on i) in situ phase transformation effect on deformation behaviour in β Titanium alloys and TRIP/TWIP steels for various structural applications and ii) structure-property correlations in advanced- and smart- metallic materials such as Ti-, Ni- and Fe- based: shape memory alloys, stochastic fibre networks, auxetic (i.e. negative Poisson’s ratio) materials for structural and biological applications.
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Prof. Sachin Maheshwari is a Professor in the Department of Manufacturing Processes and Automation Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi from April 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. in July 1998 in Welding Engineering from Mechanical Engineering Department, I. I. T. Delhi. His Ph.D. Project was on “some studies on element transfer behaviour of fluxes during Submerged Arc Welding”. He did his Master of Engineering in Jan 1994 in Industrial Metallurgy (Welding) from Metallurgical Engineering Department, University of Roorkee, Roorkee and his M. E. Project: Element transfer behaviour of fluxes during Submerged Arc Welding. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering in June 1992 in Production & Industrial Engineering from Mechanical Engineering Department, M. N. Regional Engineering College Allahabad. He published over 40 research papers in national and international journals and conferences
Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi
Prof. Sachin Maheshwari
Dr. Akshay Dvivedi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at IIT Roorkee, Roorkee. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2009 in Advanced Manufacturing Processes from I. I. T. Roorkee. He did his M.Tech in 2004 in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Roorkee He completed his Bachelor of Engineering in 2000 from Mechanical Engineering Department at Jiwaji University. He has published no. of research papers in national and international journals and conferences. His research interests includes Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Nontraditional Micro-machining, Quality Management, QFD for service sector, Metal Matrix Composites, Primary and Secondary Processing of MMC.
IIT Roorkee
Prof. Akshay Dvivedi
Prof. Apurbba Kumar Sharma
IIT Roorkee
Prof. Apurbba Kumar Sharma is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at IIT Roorkee, Roorkee. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 in Mechanical from IIT. Madras. He did his M. Tech in 1996 in Computer Int. Mfg. (CIM) from IIT Madras. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering in 1988 from Mechanical Engineering Department at Dibrugarh University. He has published no. of research papers in national and international journals and conferences. His research interests includes Micromachining, Fabrication of Microchannels, Microholes, their characterization, Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Hybrid Finishing Processes, Microwave Material Processing, In-situ Microwave Casting, Joining of Bulk Metal, Microwave Cladding, Surface Engineering, Cladding, Wear characterization.
Mr. Hidekazu Tokoro
Japan Desk Manager
Mr. Hidekazu Tokoro is working as a Japan Desk Manager in MMC Hardmetal India Pvt. Ltd. Company which is a Subsidiary of Mitsubishi Materials, Japan. He is residing at Nagano Prefecture in Japan. He received his Bechelor degree from Meiji University. He has joined Mitsubishi Company in 2004 and having more than 15 years’ experience. He has received best sales award East Japan Mitsubishi in 2016. His hobbies is to play Golf and Surfing.