Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technology

Dr. Jitendra Kumar Katiyar holds the position of an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research Impact & Outcome (CRIO), Chitkara University, Punjab, India. Additionally, he holds the position of local coordinator for the Global Initiative of Academic Network (GIAN) program started by the Ministry of Education at Chitkara University. He has 11 years of total teaching and research experience. His research interest includes modern manufacturing techniques, tribology of carbon materials, polymer composites, self-lubricating polymers, lubrication tribology, and coatings for advanced technologies. He obtained his bachelor's degree from UPTU Lucknow with Honours in 2007. He received his master's from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2010 and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 2017. He is a life member of the Tribology Society of India, the Malaysian Society of Tribology, the Institute of Engineers, India, and The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).

Prof. Dinesh Singh Thakur joined in the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Associate Professor in 2011 and was promoted to a Professor in 2018. Presently, he holds the position of Director, Planning & Policy & NEP and has additional responsibility as a Director, Centre for Training & Placement (CTP), Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DU) Pune. Before joining the institute, he served as an Assistant Professor at Dr. B. A. Technological University (Govt. of Maharashtra), Raigad.

Dr. T V K Gupta is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur. He obtained his Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur in the area of abrasive water jet machining for microchannel fabrication. His research includes hard material machining, CAD/CAM, and metal additive manufacturing. He was a visiting scholar at the University of San Diego, USA, Hong Kong State University and the University of Birmingham, UK. Prior to joining VNIT Nagpur, he had wide experience as a Grade-I Research Engineer at IIT Kanpur for 10 years where he worked on various industry/consultancy projects and for 4 years as visiting faculty at PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur. Currently, he is working on metal additive manufacturing using laser cladding process for which he was awarded the Early Career Research project by DST.