Promotion to Associate Professor
Cake from students
AMPRG PI Dr. Amit Arora was promoted to the post of Associate Professor of Materials Engineering at IIT Gandhinagar. The group members celebrated this by getting a cassata cake (fav of one of the students!). Prof. Arora is looking forward to many more challenging projects and engaging research activities!
Amit Arora
Associate Professor of Materials Engineering
Amit Arora is Associate Professor of Materials Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. He leads the Advanced Materials Processing Research Group at IIT Gandhinagar which works in the area of numerical modeling of welding and joining processes, additive manufacturing processes, and friction stir welding and processing including tool wear during FSW, numerical modeling of dissimilar FSW, and mechanical and electrochemical characterization of friction stir surface composites. Recent works have been published in journals such as Wear, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Heat and Mass Transfer.