CV at a glance

Professor Dipak Mazumdar, a distinguished Alumnus of NIT Jamshedpur, obtained his Doctoral degree in 1985 in Process  Metallurgy McGill University, Montreal, Canada, with honours. Following his Ph.D. and Post Doctoral Research Associateship at McGill, Dr. Mazumdar returned to India during early 1987 and joined IIT Kanpur, where he is currently a professor since 1995. Dr. Mazumdar has also worked with McGIll Metals Processing Centre, McGill University Montreal and the Department  of MSE, University of California, Berkeley, during the periods he was on leave from IIT Kanpur. He has over one hundred seventy five publications to his credit and has written two text books on,  "Modelling of Steelmaking Processes (2009) " and a  " A first course in Iron and steelmaking (2015)".

Numerous awards and accolades have been bestowed on Professor Mazumdar for his seminal contributions to steelmaking research and education. These include, "Kamani Gold Medal of IIM (1990)", "International Scientific  Exchange Award from NSERC, Canada (1992)", "Metallurgist of the year award (2000)" from the Ministry of Steel, Govt. of India, "SAIL Gold Medal (2001,2012 and 2020)" from the Indian Institute of Metals, the  "GD Birla Gold Medal of the Indian Institute of Metals (2009)" and the coveted INAE Chair Professorship in 2011 and the Ministry of steel Chair Professorship during 2012-2017. For his pioneering contribution to the domestic steel production sector, he has been awarded the "Vasvik Industrial Research Award" in 2010. Prof. Mazumdar has been a recipient of the  "Distinguished Industry Professorship-2013" award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering. For his sustained contribution to ethics, teaching and research, Prof. Mazumdar received the "IIM Distinguished Educator Award (2014)" from the Indian Institute of Metals, "Outstanding Teacher Award (2015)" from INAE as well as "Excellence in Teaching Award (2021)"  from IIT Kanpur. In 2019, Professor Mazumdar was honoured with the "National Metallurgist Award (Academic and R&D)" by the Ministry of Steel, Government of India.

He is a Fellow of The Indian National Academy of Engineering & The Indian Institute of Metals and served as Editorial Board members for Materials & Metallurgical Transactions B, ISIJ International and Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals and works closely with more than a dozen, domestic steel and refractory industries.

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