UG and PG Student Mentorship

Thesis Supervisor

Name Degree Discipline Thesis title Duration
Mahesh VP Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering Aluminium Matrix Friction Stir Surface Composites - Study On Mechanical and Electrochemical Performance 2013-2020
Pankaj Sahlot Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering Tool wear during friction stir welding - An experimental and numerical study during welding of CuCrZr alloy 2012-2018
Som Dixit M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Study on Formability of Friction Stir welded Dissimilar Aluminum alloys Al-6061-T6 and Al-5083 2019-2021
Ankita Shahi M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Effect Of Friction Stir Welding Process Parameters on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of AA -7075 T6 Along with Formability Analysis and Numerical Modelling 2019-2021
Vats Shah M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Optimization of Process Parameters and Effect of Tool Pin Profile on Friction Stir Welding of AA 6082-T6 Alloy 2019-2021
Gaurav Jogi M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Design optimization of Torus Cryo Pump Housing 2018-2021
Nishkarsh Srivastava M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Comparative Intergranular Corrosion Susceptibility Studies of Retrogression & Reaged 7075 Al Alloy 2018-2020
Sudha Gautam M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Development of Antibacterial Surface Composite by Friction Stir Processing and Aluminium 1050 as Matrix 2018-2020
Akshay Srivastava M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Optimization of the Tool Dimensions and Process Parameters for Friction Stir Welding of AA2219 and Thermal Analysis using Numerical Simulation 2018-2020
Rakesh Tunk M.Tech. Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Property Investigation of Aluminized IN-RAFM steels 2017-2019
Ashish Yadav M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Development of Molybdenum Coating on CuCrZr Alloy with Laser Assisted Material Deposition Process 2017-2019
Anurag Gumaste M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Fabrication, Characterization and Particle Distribution Analysis of Al 1050-B4C Friction Stir Surface Composite 2017-2019
Litton Bhandari M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Variability in Fatigue Life of near-α Titanium Alloy IMI-834 2017-2019
Arpan Rout M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Effect of tool shoulder diameter on the Friction Stir Welding of AA 5083-Cu ETP and AA 6061-Cu ETP 2016-2018
Ashutosh Kumar M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Effect of tool rotation speed and shoulder diameter on mechanical and microstructural properties of molybdenum reinforced surface composite 2016-2018
Bhoopendra Kumar M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Friction Stir Welding of additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V alloy sheets : Mechanical and Microstructure characterization 2016-2018
Vipul Anand M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Effect of in-process heat sink on distortion and residual stresses during GTAW of thin sheets 2016-2018
Shubhankar Gurav M.Tech. Mechanical Engineering Thermal analysis of minichannels fabricated using friction stir channeling process 2016-2019
Sourabh Singh M.Tech. Mechanical Engineering Heat treatment of AA 6082- Effect on Mechanical Properties and Electrical Conductivity 2016-2018
Nishant Kumar M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Flow modeling of Friction Stir Welding 2015-2017
Ronit Dey M.Tech. Mechanical Engineering Formability of tailor welded blanks produced by friction stir welding - A study on the effect of tool pin profile and eccentricity 2015-2017
Niladri Naskar M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Heat transfer and fluid flow modeling of conduction mode CuOF-316L SS Dissimilar Laser Welding 2014-2017
Amit Singh M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Heat transfer and material flow modelling of friction stir welding of dissimilar materials: Al 6061-AZ31 2014-2016
Pragya N Banjare M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering A new tool design for friction stir welding of polymer 2012-2015

Thesis Committee Member

Name Degree Discipline Thesis title Duration
Rishabh Srivastava Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Multi-effect membrane distillation (MEMD) 2020-present
Jeevanaboina Sai Krishna Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering TBD 2020-present
Maithili Tagare Ph.D. Humanities & Social Sciences Culinary Identities: A Study of the Culinary Cultures Marathi Brahmin Families in Western India in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries 2020-present
Deepak Prajapati Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering Superhydrophobic anti-bacterial coatings 2019-present
Rohit Gupta Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering TBD 2019-present
Gitanjali Swarup Ph.D. Biological Engineering The development of in vitro tau aggregation model system to investigate the molecular and cellular mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease 2019-present
Rajdeep Singh Devra Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Golden Plastic 2019-present
Simranjit Singh Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering Nanomaterials application for biological studies 2018-present
Bhumika Longakshi M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Development of high throughput Machine Learning
Interatomic Potential for High Entropy Alloys 2019-2021
Prathmesh Kiran Bhadane M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Effect of the alkaline treatment of pineapple leaf fibres (PALF) on PALF reinforced rice starch bioplastics 2019-2021
Swarup Jana M.Tech. Mechanical Engineering Open die forging simulation of Nickel based superalloy Nimonic 115 using Deform 3D 2018-2021
Mohammad Adil M.Tech. Mechanical Engineering Mechanical and micro-structural behavior of dissimilar AA2014-T6 and AA7075-T6 aluminium alloys plates joined by Friction Stir Welding 2017-2019
Rana Pratap Singh M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide on copper based oxides/pervoskites 2016-2018
Nitish Kumar M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Mechanical behavior and microstructural evolution during friction stir welding of similar and dissimilar Al5083-H111 and Al6063-T4 alloys 2016-2018
Charu Oberoi M.Tech. Chemical Engineering Influence of pH, Protein Concentration and Ionic Strength on the Stability of SBO-Water System using Ovalbumin as Emulsifier 2016-2018
Param Punj Singh M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Material force approach for tire durability analysis 2016-2018
Prateek Goyal M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Fe3O4, ZnO nanoparticles and ZnO-Fe3O4 based nanocomposites for Waste Water Treatment: An Adsorptive-Photocatalytic Based Approach 2015-2017
Ritam Chatterjee M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Enhancing mechanical properties of Aluminuium-Lithium alloy AA2195 using thermomechanical treatment 2015-2017
Garima Patel M.Tech. Chemical Engineering Kinetic Modeling, Simulation and Optimization Of Butylated Urea Formaldehyde Resin Synthesis 2015-2017
Vikalp Kamal M.Tech. Civil Engineering Effect of interaction factors on modelling of piled raft foundation 2014-2017
Amjeth Basheer M.Tech. Civil Engineering Case study of slope failures in canals 2015-2017
Chirag Korat M.Tech. Mechanical Engineering Modeling and simulation of combustion of isolated and packed bed of Nickel coated aluminum particles 2015-2017
Poonam Ratrey Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering Therapeutic applications of cell penetrating peptides 2014-2021
Kaling Taki Ph.D. Civil Engineering Geotechnical and Structural Modulation for Strength and Adsorption Enhancement of Urban Sewage Sludge 2015-2021
Swaroop Chakraborty Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering Reservoir based co-delivery of CuO nanoparticles and Elesclomol to facilitate enhanced dissolution mediated intracellular oxidative stress 2016-2020
Saket Kumar Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Colloidal Particles Self - Assembly in Liquid Crystals and Isotropic medium 2014-2020
Ipsita Das M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Study on microstructural aspect of 6105 and 6463 aluminium based alloys with variation of composition and soaking time 2014-2016
Abhishek Sarmah M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering FEM and Experimental Evaluation of J-Integral for Multi-phased Materials. 2013-2015
Krishna Kumar Saxena M.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering Formability characterization of Al6014 and DP600 alloys considering the effects of non linear strain paths, temperature and bending 2013-2015

Undergraduate Project Supervisor

Name Year Project title Program Home Institution
Yasham Mundada 2020 Microstructural prediction in laser-assisted additive manufacturing processes using computational tools Project Course IIT Gandhinagar
Bidyan Basumatary 2019 Artificial neural network based modeling of friction stir welding process Project Course IIT Gandhinagar
Shivani Patle 2019 Friction stir hybrid surface composites Project Course IIT Gandhinagar
Anjali Kumari 2018 Friction stir welding of Aluminum 2219 alloy Internship IIT Gandhinagar
Sunidhi Astha 2018 Aluminum based TiC reinforced in-situ composite fabrication by friction stir processing Internship IIT Roorkee
Indira Kar 2018 Friction stir welding of Aluminum 6082 alloy Internship ICFAI
Harsh Khandelwal 2017 Friction stir welding of Aluminum alloy with Cu Internship and B.Tech. Project Nirma University
Raviteja Kotamsetti 2017 Waste management at high altitudes Project Course IIT Gandhinagar
Kapil Sharma 2017 Aluminum matrix friction stir surface composites with B4C reinforcement Project Course IIT Gandhinagar
Deepak Dhariwal 2017 Heat transfer and material flow modeling in laser additive manufacturing Project Course IIT Gandhinagar
Mohit Tandale 2017 Characterization of Al6061 minichannels Project Course IIT Gandhinagar
Aditya Kumar 2017 Friction stir welding of Ti-6Al-4V alloy Project Course IIT Gandhinagar
Sushil Kumar 2017 Design of inlet and outlet for thermal analysis of mini-channels Project Course IIT Gandhinagar
Ardizio Salvatore 2016 Characterization and study of metal matrix composite Project Course University of Naples Federico II
Cassese Giovanni 2016 Characterization and study of metal matrix composite Project Course University of Naples Federico II
Aashrith Koundinya 2015 Friction Stir Welding of Composites Project Course IIT Gandhinagar
Lalit Chauhan 2015 Web Interface for numerical model for Friction Stir Welding Internship NIT Raipur
Rajesh Kumar 2015 Characterization of wear debris during friction stir welding of Copper Internship IIT Kanpur
Harshvardhan Singh 2015 Experimental Study of Friction Stir Welding on ABS Sheets Internship IIT Gandhinagar
Koushik Mani 2015 Experimental Study of Friction Stir Welding on ABS Sheets Internship IIT Gandhinagar