Sponsored Project
​Project Title: Development of a novel cooling strategy for dry grinding and experimental investigations on its performance​
Sanctioned Budget: Rs. 29,18,256/-
Role: Principal Investigator
Co-PI: Dr. Pramod Kuntikana, Dr. Vineed Narayanan
Date of commencement: 21 May 2024
Funding Agency: Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
Status: Ongoing
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​Project Title: Plasma electropolishing (PeP) for metal additive manufacturing
Sanctioned Budget: Rs. 35,00,000/-
Role: Principal Investigator
Date of commencement: 19 June 2023
Funding Agency: Seed Grant, IIT Palakkad
Status: Ongoing
Project Title: Establishment of Facilities for Micro/Nano Fabrication, Surface Modification and Characterization of Materials
Sanctioned Budget: Rs. 168,00,000/-
Role: Project implementation group member
Other members: Dr. Samarjeet Chanda (HoD), Dr. Anoop Akkoorath Mana, Dr. Pramod Kuntikana, Prof. T Sundararajan
Sanctioned date: 19 December 2022
Funding Agency: DST FIST​
Status: Ongoing
Ongoing works
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How about cooling the worksurface in grinding without any external fluid supply?
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Metalworking fluid selection for grinding process: Coolant or lubricant? How it can be decided for a given condition?
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How can the form and shape accuracies be maintained in electro-chemistry-based polishing techniques?
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How about a single (or unique) parameter for predicting the extent of grinding process responses?
Ongoing works
Research Group
Current members (2 PhD)
Name: Mr. Gibin George
Degree: MTech + PhD
Year of joining MTech: July 2021
Year of conversion for PhD: July 2022
Working area: A cooling system for grinding without any external supply of coolants
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Name: Mr. Chamind E C
Degree: PhD
Year of joining: July 2023
Working area: Plasma Polishing
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Alumni (1MS + 11 MTech + 3 BTech + 1 Summer Research Fellow + 1 Research Associate)
Name: Mr. Shyam Mishra
Degree: MTech
Year of graduation: July 2021
Current position: Senior Design Engineer, L&T Heavy Engineering
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Name: Mr. Kumar Hemjeet
Degree: MTech
Year of graduation: July 2021
Current position: Associate Data Scientist, ICICI Lombard
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Name: Ms. Nishalini P
Degree: BTech
Year of graduation: July 2022
Current position: Business Growth Strategist, Maini Precision Products Limited
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Name: Mr. Sasanka Sekhar Nayak
Degree: MTech
Year of graduation: July 2022
Current position: SKF
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Name: Mr. Jomin Joy
Degree: MTech
Year of graduation: July 2022
Current position: Technical Lead, HCLTech – Engineering and R&D Services
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Name: Ms. Christabel Madzinga
Degree: MTech
Year of leaving: July 2022
Current position: will be updated
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Name: Mr. Ravi Ranjan
Degree: BTech
Year of graduation: July 2023
Current position: Senior Data Engineer, Jio Platform Ltd.
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Name: Mr. Lokendra Singh Patel
Degree: MTech
Year of graduation: July 2023
Current organization: FIIT-JEE
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Name: Mr. Nikhil Shukla
Degree: MTech
Year of graduation: July 2023
Current organization: FIIT-JEE
Name: Mr. Bhole Nath Singh
Position: Summer Research Fellow
Duration: June 2023 - July 2023
Current Status: L&T Energy (Hydrocarbon)
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Name: Dr. Rakesh P R
Position: Research Associate
Duration: May 2023 - October 2023
Current position: Post Doc Researcher, IIT Kanpur
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Name: Mr. Muyambo Thinkwell
Degree: MTech
Year of graduation: 2024
Current organization: will be updated
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Name: Mr. David T Francis
Degree: MTech
Year of graduation: 2024
Current organization: L&T Heavy Engineering
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Name: Ms. Luse Lusekelelo Munkombwe
Degree: MTech
Year of graduation: 2024
Current organization: will be updated
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Name: Mr. Shubham Tiwari
Degree: MTech
Year of graduation: 2024
Current organization: Force Motors
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Name: Mr. Abhinand S S
Degree: BTech
Year of graduation: 2024
Current organization: Manappuram
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Name: Mr. Vaisakh Babu
Degree: MS
Year of graduation: 2024
Current position: Senior Engineer, TATA Elxsi