Professor Amber Shrivastava is assistant professor in mechanical engineering department at IIT Bombay, since 2016. Previously, Prof. Shrivastava worked at Corporate Technology Centre of A O Smith at Milwaukee, USA. Dr Shrivastava received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received M.S. in mechanical engineering from Idaho State University. He graduated with Bachelor’s in Marine Engineering from Marine Engineering and Research Institute, Kolkata. Thereafter, he worked as a licenced marine engineer for 4 years. His current research interest lies in the area of joining processes in manufacturing, friction stir technologies, joining of dissimilar materials, additive manufacturing, manufacturing process automation, and sustainable manufacturing. As principal investigator, Dr Shrivastava has received and led sponsored projects from government agencies like DST, ISRO, etc. as well as industries.
Professor Amit Arora is an Associate Professor of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), India. He leads the Advanced Materials Processing Research Group at IITGN. Prof. Arora received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA, in 2011. He worked on heat transfer and material flow modeling of friction stir welding process and developed several numerical models for simulation of this solid-state welding method. Before joining the doctoral program, he was working with IBM India Pvt Ltd as Associate System Engineer. Prof. Arora received B.Tech. (Hons.) in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and M.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering (Dual Degree) in 2005 from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. The broad research area of Prof. Arora includes various advanced material processing and simulation, such as friction stir welding and processing, additive manufacturing, laser material interaction, surface modification. Prof. Arora has worked on several sponsored projects from SERB, BRNS, DST, DTE-Gujarat, and MHRD. He has also been awarded Excellence-in-Research Award from IIT Gandhinagar and Dept. of Atomic Energy Young Scientist Research Award from the Board for Research in Nuclear Sciences. Prof. Arora was also awarded Indian Patent for fabrication process of polymer reinforced metal matrix composites.
Dr. Amit Arora completed his B. Tech. and M. Tech. (Dual Degree) in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2005. He received Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in August 2011. He has worked on heat transfer and material flow modeling of friction stir welding for his Ph.D. thesis. His main research focus is physical understanding of the joining processes, heat transfer and material flow modeling, and advanced material processing. Currently, Dr. Arora is working as Assistant Professor of Materials Scienceand Engineering at IIT Gandhinagar and leading Advanced Materials Processing Research Group.
Chandan Srivastava received Ph.D. (2009) in Materials Science from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. He is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Prof. Chandan Srivastava’s research focuses on microstructure-property correlations in metallic systems. Three representative research topics of his work are: (a) understanding the evolution of morphology, microstructure, texture, and corrosion behavior of electrodeposited metallic coatings as a function of the deposition variables, additive volume fraction, and alloying additions, (b) understanding the atomistic mechanism of degradation of compositionally complex multi-component alloys in severely corrosive environments, and (c) size-dependent phase stability and microstructures in nano-solids.
Professor Nikhil Dhawan is working as Associate Professor at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, IIT-Roorkee, INDIA. He received Outstanding Young Faculty award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He was awarded Mineral Engineering International (MEI) global Young Person award for his work in recycling electronic waste to recover metals. Nikhil Dhawan obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (Metallurgical Engineering) with First Class Honors from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, in 2008. His Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering (Modeling of crushed ore agglomeration for heap leach operations, AMIRA P-986 project) was conferred by the University of Utah, the USA, in 2013. He has his credit to seven sponsored research projects funded by various government organizations and has authored 90 referred international journal articles and 25 international conference papers) and 2 book chapters with an h-index of20. His
