Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM 29) September 68, 2023

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Dr. Ajay Kumar is the assistant professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati India. Prior to joining IIT Tirupati he was a postdoctoral fellow at Washington State University (WSU) Pullman USA and University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM) USA. He obtained his B.E. (Mechanical) from Madhav Institute of Technology and Science (MITS) Gwalior (MP) India and M.Tech. (Materials Engineering) from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) Bhopal (MP) India and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore India. His major areas of research interests include advanced metal casting metal forming tribology and surface engineering and advanced materials characterization. He is focusing at constructing a quantitative and predictive understanding of the phenomena underlying the materials development for industrial applications by employing a variety of experimental and computational tools to establish process-structure-property relationships in materials. He has published 2 patents 30 papers in respected international journals and 4 book chapters. Dr. T. S. Srivatsan is a professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Akron (Akron Ohio USA). He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering (B.E. 1980) from Bangalore University (Bangalore India) and graduate degrees Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering (M.S. 1981) and Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (Ph.D. 1984) from Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta Georgia USA). Dr. Srivatsan joined as the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Akron in August 1987. Dr. Mamilla Ravi Sankar is the assoc. professor of Mechanical Engineering at Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati India. Prior to joining IIT Tirupati he served at IIT Guwahati for about 7 years. He obtained his B.Tech. (Mechanical) from S. V. University College of Engineering Tirupati and M.Tech. and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Uttar Pradesh India. His major areas of research interests include advanced machining processes abrasive micro and nanofinishing additive and smart manufacturing sustainable machining processes advanced material (biomaterial polymers composite) precision agriculture and food processing advanced coatings and tribology and online monitoring of manufacturing processes. Dr. N. Venkaiah is the assoc. professor of Mechanical Engineering at Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati India. Prior to joining IIT Tirupati he served at NIT Warangal for about 10 years. He obtained his B.Tech. (Mechanical) from S. V. University College of Engineering Tirupati M.E. (Manufacturing Technology) from NIT Tiruchirappalli and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His major areas of research interests include engineering metrology electric discharge machining additive manufacturing (3D printing) modeling and optimization techniques computational geometric techniques. He has published 30 papers in reputed Journals and Conferences. Dr. N. Venkaiah received Young Scientist Project Award in 2013 from Department of Science and Technology Govt. of India. Currently he is a reviewer for Int. J. Advanced Manufacturing Technology Journal of Engineering Manufacture Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering and Journal of Process Mech. Engineering. Dr. S. Seetharamu joined CPRI in 1985 after serving in L&T and Best and Crompton Engineering and retired as the director of CPRI in June 2015. He is a chartered engineer and has served as a Faculty at Toyohashi University of Technology Japan. Power engineering with special reference to energy efficiency environmental engineering materials technology and condition assessment and diagnostics (RLA and asset management) are his areas of expertise. Special thrust is toward coordination/networking with professional working groups for collaboration accreditation and implementable work programs.