Professional Activities

Institute Acivities

• Chairman, Senate Undergraduate Committee (SURGC) 2024-25
• Vice-Chairman, GATE 2023, GATE2022, GATE2021. IIT Kanpur is the organizing Institute for GATE2023 and our team is overseeing the conduct and organization of the exam for all of India in coordination with 7 other zones.
• Warden, Hall-13 (December 2019 onwards)
• Member, UGARC (2020-2022): As UGARC member spearheaded following changes: o Termination Reforms which eliminate the need of termination of student on academic ground o Inclusion of Exit Option for students who wish to leave the program early
• Convener, Departmental UGARC (2021-2022): As departmental UGARC convener, made following contributions: o Revised the lab curriculum to introduce modular labs o Included Capstone Project o Introduced Instrumentation for Materials Engineering Lab
• Member, Staff Affairs Committee: As a member of Staff Affairs Committee organized Staff Skill upgradation workshops in 2021 and 2022. It was received well by all the staff members
• Convener, Engineering Metallurgy Lab: As convener of engineering lab, overseeing the transfer to new location (Diamond Jubilee Complex) and modernization of the lab (2021- 2024)
• Convener, Electron Microscopy Lab, ACMS (2014- Present)
• Co-Organizer, IIM NMD-ATM, November 2016, IIT Kanpur
• DUGC Convener (2013-2014)
• Member of various Departmental Committees
  • Staff Affairs Committee (2021-Present)
  • MSES Coordinator (2017-18; 2018-19)
  • DPGC (2021-22; 2017-2019)
  • Student Placement Coordinator (2016-2017; 2015-2016)
  • DUGC (2021-21; 2019-20; 2014-15; 2011-13)
• Institute Representative for JEE and GATE on several occasions

Contributions outside the Institute

• Participated in the workshop on "Materials and Metallurgy Curriculum" organized by Indian Academy of Sciences, March 2020. The objective of the workshop was to design a template curriculum for all the metallurgy and materials related departments in the country. As part of this workshop, contributed to the preparation of course curriculum for "Mechanics and Mechanical Behavior" related courses and for "Processing and Manufacturing" related courses. The committee submitted a comprehensive report on the course curriculum for the Metallurgy/ Materials stream. (March 2020)
• Conducted short course on "Structure and Characterization of Materials" at NIT Srinagar July 2015.
• Co-organizer for Automotive Materials and Manufacturing Conference, April 2014, Pune
• Provided consultation to Ordnance Factory, Kanpur on the problems arising in the Russian imported barrels. Several cases had been reported to Field Gun Factory where Russian imported barrels burst open from the two-thirds of the base of the T-72 and T-90 barrels. The discussions involved the Russian counterparts who had provided the parts and our role was to convince them to allow us to conduct some experiments which can help assess the core of the problem in the barrels. We also listed out the methodology of sectioning and listed the experiments which needed to be conducted at Indian side and the Russian side to transparently and fairly examine the problem.
• Provided preliminary analysis to Air-Force on the failure of a cable (2015)
• Associated with RUTAG: Bael cutting machine was developed by students under my mentorship
• Member, Technical Evaluation Committee, Global Conference on Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE 2013)
• Conducted Workshop on "Principles and Applications of EDS/ EBSD" at Kalyani Center of Technological Innovation (Bharat Forge Ltd.) (May 2013), Pune
• Talk on "Advances in Nanostructured Materials Manufacturing and Nanomanufacturing Systems" at SVNIT, Surat (June 2011). (Organized by Prof. B. Bidanda of University of Pittsburgh on Advances in Manufacturing Systems, as part of IUCEE program)
• Coordinator (along with Prof. S. Sangal and Dr. Partha Ghosal), Metallography Contest, 67th IIM-NMD, IIT (BHU), Varanasi
• Reviewer for Materials Characterization, Materials & Design, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Materials Letters, Materials Today Communications, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions - A, Bulletin of Materials Science, Journal of Engineering Tribology, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Current Science, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, International Journal of Nanomanufacturing.
• PhD Thesis Reviews for various IITs and NITs
• Review of Starts through Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre
• IIM Kanpur (2011 - Present): Have been actively associated with Indian Institute of Metals, Kanpur Chapter, first as Student Advisor (2011-2012), then as treasurer (2011-2012) and also as Secretary IIM (2012- present). Actively participated in the organization of the flagship event of Batra Quiz since 2011 and several other events.