MEC - Faculty

Faculty Members

Dr. Arakere Puttaswamy Harsha
Professor

apharsha.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9415343426, +91-9839331157


Area of Interest: Tribology of Materials, Bio-Tribology, Machine Design.

Dr. Amit Tyagi
Professor

atyagi.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9935417729


Area of Interest: Machine Design, Vibration, Engineering Mechanics.

Dr. Arnab Sarkar
Professor

arnab.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-8953829592


Area of Interest: Wind Climate Modeling, Renewable Energy, Hybrid System, Microfluidics.

Dr. Debashis Khan
Professor

dkhan.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9838445007


Area of Interest: Solid Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Continuum Mechanics, Finite Deformation Plasticity, Damage Mechanics, Finite Element Method.

Dr. Jahar Sarkar
Professor

jsarkar.mec@itbhu.ac.in

+91-9919787557


Area of Interest: Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Refrigeration, Air-conditioning, Nanofluids, Radiative cooling, Solar energy.

Dr. Jeewan Vachan Tirkey
Professor

jvtirkey.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9415450968, +91-9648126644


Area of Interest: Renewable Energy: Waste to Energy through Gasification; Hydrogen production through gasification; Life cycle assessment (LCA); Internal combustion engine (SI and CI):Experiment and Simulation; Alternate fuel for an Engine , Miller Cycle based-Over expanded Engine.


Area of Interest: Machining, Grinding, Welding, Material characterization.

Dr. Mohd Zaheer Khan Yusufzai
Professor

mzkhan.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-8853229620, 0542-7165595


Area of Interest: Welding Processes, Welding Metallurgy, Friction Stir Welding, Laser welding and Cladding, Inspection and Testing of Welds, Materials Engineering, New Manufacturing Processes.


Area of Interest: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Design and Innovation, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar thermal and Pumped hydro energy storage systems, Green buildings, Double-diffusive convection, Intellectural Property Rights (IPR).


Area of Interest:Desgn of Production Systems, Operations Management Supply Chain Management.


Area of Interest:Thermal and Fluid Sciences.

Dr. Pradyumna Ghosh
Professor

pghosh.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9415256256


Area of Interest: Heat Transfer, Bio-heat transfer, CFD, Nanofluids, Porous media flow & Microgravity fluid Physics.

Dr. Rajesh Kumar
Professor

rkumar.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9838541945


Area of Interest: Engine Tribology, Surface Contact Modelling, Surface Contact Temperature, Surface Characterization, Running-in, Scuffing, Wear Modelling, Tribochemistry, Probabilistic Machine Design, Optimization, DOE, MEMS.

Dr. Rajnesh Tyagi
Professor

rtyagi.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-7607384674


Area of Interest: Materials Development and Tribology, Composite Materials, High Temperature Wear and Self Lubrication, Wear Resistant Coatings, Solid Mechanics and Manufacturing.

Dr. Rakesh K. Gautam
Professor

rkg.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-8174056865


Area of Interest: Hybrid Cu-base in-situ composite, processing of Light alloy base composites and nano- composite, Microwave sintered composite, Tribological, Mechanical and physical properties of cast in-situ composites, Bio -Tribology, dental tribology and Air jet erosion, Self - Healing and Biomematics Materials.

Dr. Sandeep Kumar
Professor

sandeep.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-7268885105


Area of Interest: Computational Mechanics(Wavelets, FEM, Meshless).


Area of Interest: Production.


Area of Interest: Metal Forming,CAD-CAM-Additive manufacturing & Manufacturing Automation, Machine tools & Unconventional Manufacturing, Integrated Product Design & Development, Casting technology.


Area of Interest:Fracture mechanics, Advanced functional and Smart composite, Finite element analysis, Failure and bursting of pipe and boiler, Graphite and graphene, Impact dynamics and ballistics, Rolling Element Bearings, Bio-mechanics, Cardiovascular stent design.


Area of Interest:Thermal Engineering, Energy Engineering, Alternate Fuels and Renewable Energy.

Dr. Amitesh Kumar
Associate Professor

amitesh.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9439949971


Area of Interest:CFD, Turbulence Modelling, High Mach Number Flows, Cryotherapy, Experimental and Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow.

Dr. Cherian Samuel
Associate Professor

csamuel.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9415450447


Area of Interest: Supply chain management, Production & Operations Management, System Dynamics.

Dr. Joy Prakash Misra
Associate Professor

jpmisra.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-7206169697


Area of Interest: Machining Processes, Machine Tools Design & Machines Development, Advanced Joining Techniques, Metal Cladding & WAAM.

Dr. Nilanjan Mallik
Associate Professor

nmallik.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9793682244


Area of Interest: Smart Materials and Structures including Nanostructures, Mechatronics, Measurements, Dynamics & Control, FEM, Composites, Vibration Damping, Energy Harvesting Technologies, Micromechanics, Piezoelectrics including non-linear behavior, Structural Health Monitoring, Optical Fiber Sensing, Shape Memory Alloys, ER/MR.

Dr. Rashmi Rekha Sahoo
Associate Professor

rrsahoo.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9628721155


Area of Interest: IC Engine, Automobile Engineering, Combustion Technology,Advance Thermodynamics,Alternate fuels, Automotive Cooling systems,nanofluid & hybrid nanofluid applications.

Dr. Saurabh Pratap
Associate Professor

saurabh.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-542-7165600


Area of Interest: AI in the Big Data Analytics, Supply Chain Network design and Modeling, Operations Research Applications in Production, Transport, and Logistics Systems, Agriculture 4.0

Dr. Swasti Sundar Mondal
Associate Professor

ssmondal.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9838542109


Area of Interest: Thermal Engg., CFD, Combustion of Coal and Biomass, Refrigeration.

Dr. Uppu Srinivas Rao
Associate Professor

sruppu.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-7206169697


Area of Interest: Modeling and Simulation, Micro-machining, Advanced Machining, Ductile Regime Machining of Ceramics, Composite Materials.

Dr. Akhilendra Pratap Singh
Assistant Professor

akhilendra.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-7458902505, 0542-7165561


Area of Interest: Advanced low-temperature combustion; Optical diagnostics with special reference to engine endoscopy and PIV; Combustion diagnostics; Engine emission measurement; Particulate characterization and their control; Alternative fuels.


Area of Interest: Hydrogen Safety, Combustion and Spray, CFD.


Area of Interest: multiphase flow (polymers, nano particle laden flows), droplet atomisation, microfluidics, biofluid dynamics.

Dr. Deepak Kumar
Assistant Professor

deepakkr.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91 96770 47956


Area of Interest: Mechanics of cellular solids, Fracture of quasi-brittle heterogeneous materials, Spring network model, and Fracture of ice.

Dr. Lakshay
Assistant Professor

lakshay.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-5427165598


Area of Interest: Operations Research, Public Transportation Planning, Electric Mobility, Disaster resilience.

Dr. Manogna Karthik Gangaraju
Assistant Professor

gmkarthik.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9043905299


Area of Interest: Additive Manufacturing; Materials Joining.

Dr. Pawan Sharma
Assistant Professor

pawan.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9899628016, +91-9927465702 (W)


Area of Interest: Additive Manufacturing, Powder Metallurgy, Metal 3D printing, Rapid tooling, 4D Printing, Metal Foams, Next generation bioimplants, Reverse Engineering, Corrosion of bio-materials.

Dr. Prakash Chandra Mani
Assistant Professor

pcmani.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9454592587


Area of Interest: Tribology and Maintenance Engineering.


Area of Interest: Combustion, Laser diagnostics, CFD, Atomization and Sprays.

Dr. Srihari Dodla
Assistant Professor

sdodla.mec@itbhu.ac.in

+91-8978007660


Area of Interest: Multiscale material modelling of polycrystalline materials, Homogenization, Micromechanical formulation, Texture evolution, Machining, Parameter identification using ML and AI.

Dr. Surendra Verma
Assistant Professor

surendra.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-8436929997


Area of Interest: Computational mechanics, Rotating structure, Instability, Buckling, Linear and Nonlinear analysis, Functionally graded structures.

Dr. Vyas Mani Sharma
Assistant Professor

vyasmani.mec@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9046444542


Area of Interest: Additive Manufacturing, Metal Foam, Powder Metallurgy, Friction Stir Welding.

Dr. Yadwinder Singh Joshan
Assistant Professor

yadwinder.mec@itbhu.ac.in

+91-8968912355


Area of Interest: Smart Material and Structures, Computational Mechanics, Non-linear Elasticity, Piezoelectric Materials, Flexoelectric Materials, Electroactive Polymers, Finite Element Method, Plates and Shells, Mechanics of Micro and Nano Actuators and Sensors, Asymptotic Modeling of Membrane and Plates undergoing Finite Deformation, Physics Informed Neural Networks.

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Dr. Aniruddh Vashisth
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Prof. B  Kishore Machine Design 9415303892
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Prof. P. C. Upadhyay Machine Design 9451122797
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Prof. S. N. Gupta Thermal & Fluid Engg. 9415619561
9718492002
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Prof. J. N. Dubey Production Engg. 2276778
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Prof. S.B.L. Asthana Production 9454815180
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Prof. N.K. Das Talukdar Machine Design 9874558518
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Prof. N. K. Samria Thermal & Fluid Engg. 9312274694
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Prof. Anand Shankar Production Engg. 0542-2312352
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Prof. S. K. Sharma Industrial Management 7376266174
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Prof. M.K. Ghosh Machine Design 9935492092
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Prof. H.N. Gupta Thermal & Fluid Engg. 9532022014
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Prof. A Bhattacharya Machine Design 7800875885
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Prof. M. Prasad Thermal & Fluid Engg. 9450183155
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Prof. J. P. Drivedi Machine Design 9415273599
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Prof. Om Prakash Thermal & Fluid Engg. 9336931881
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Prof. R.S. Singh Engineering Drawing 9450708838
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Shri S. K. Shah Production Engg. 9415991767
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Prof. S. P. Tewari Production Engg. 9721683806
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Prof. A.K. Jha Production Engg. 9839556126
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Prof. V. K. Srivastava Machine Design 9453915551
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Prof. V. P. Singh Machine Design 9936847575
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Dr. Anil Kumar Agrawal Industrial Management 09452413766
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Dr. Kripa Sanker Tripathi Mechanisms, Vibrations 9452311350