CV at a glance

Professor Dipak Mazumdar   graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from Regional Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur (now an NIT) in 1980. Subsequently, in 1982, he obtained Master degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Ph.D. in Process Metallurgy, in 1985, with honours from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Following his Ph.D. and Post Doctoral Research Associateship at McGill, Dr. Mazumdar returned to India during early 1987 and joined IIT Kanpur as Assistant Professor, where he rose to the position of Associate Professor in 1993 and to a full Professor in 1995. During the periods 1992-1994, 1998-1999 and 2006-2007, Dr. Mazumdar served as a Visiting Scientist and Professor at the McGill Metals Processing Centre, McGill University, Montreal as well as the Department of MSE, University of California, Berkeley. He has over one hundred seventy five publications to his credit and 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. He is a Fellow of The Indian National Academy of Engineering & The Indian Institute of Metals. Prof. Mazumdar is also on the Editorial Board of the Materials & Metallurgical Transactions B and the Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals. He has collaborated extensively with the domestic steel industries during the past decade. The 2012 SAIL gold medal of the Indian Institute of Metals, which he has received recently is the result of his collaborative research work with many steel industries in the country, leading to an annual yield improvement from tundish to the tune of  ~500 crores INR.  For his pioneering contribution to the domestic steel production sector, he has been awarded the Vasvik Industrial Research Award in 2010. Professor Mazumdar was holding the " Ministry of Steel Chair " at IIT Kanpur during 2012-2017 and has been a recipient of the " Distinguished Industry Professorship-2013 " from the Indian National Academy of Engineering. For his sustained contribution to ethics, teaching and research, Prof. Mazumdar recieved the IIM Distinguished Educator Award from the Indian Institute of Metals (2014) as well as Outstanding Teacher Award (2015) from INAE. More recently, in 2019, Prof. Mazumdar has been honoured with the "National Metallurgist" (Academic and R&D) award from the Ministry of Steel, Government of India.

Prof. Mazumdar has superannuated on June 30th, 2023, and is currently continuing as an Emeritus Faculty in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

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