New Horizons in Metallurgy, Materials and Manufacturing

Principles of Alloy Design.- Correlative Microscopy.- Additive Manufacturing.- Multiscale modeling in arc welding using secondary thermal cycle.- Materials Recycling.- Process Development and Stability Modeling of High-speed Micromachining.- Materials Degradation.- Bio Materials.- Energy & Battery Materials.- An Odyssey from High Entropy Alloys to Complex Concentrated Alloys.

Professor Amber Shrivastava is assistant professor in mechanical engineering department at IIT Bombay, since 2016. Previously, Prof. Shrivastava worked at Corporate Technology Centre of A O Smith at Milwaukee, USA. Dr Shrivastava received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received M.S. in mechanical engineering from Idaho State University. He graduated with Bachelor's in Marine Engineering from Marine Engineering and Research Institute, Kolkata. Thereafter, he worked as a licenced marine engineer for 4 years. His current research interest lies in the area of joining processes in manufacturing, friction stir technologies, joining of dissimilar materials, additive manufacturing, manufacturing process automation, and sustainable manufacturing. As principal investigator, Dr Shrivastava has received and led sponsored projects from government agencies like DST, ISRO, etc. as well as industries.


Professor Amit Arora is an Associate Professor of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), India. He leads the Advanced Materials Processing Research Group at IITGN. Prof. Arora received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA, in 2011. He worked on heat transfer and material flow modeling of friction stir welding process and developed several numerical models for simulation of this solid-state welding method. Before joining the doctoral program, he was working with IBM India Pvt Ltd as Associate System Engineer. Prof. Arora received B.Tech. (Hons.) in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and M.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering (Dual Degree) in 2005 from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. The broad research area of Prof. Arora includes various advanced material processing and simulation, such as friction stir welding and processing, additive manufacturing, laser material interaction, surface