Dr. Nilesh Prakash Gurao
Professor

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Professional, Educational & Achievements Details

Professional Details


Professor
MSE Deptartment at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Jul 2022 to date
Associate Professor
MSE Deptartment at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Jul 2018 to Jun 2022
Assistant Professor
MSE Deptartment at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Nov 2012 - Jun 2018
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Advisor: Prof. Jerzy Szpunar read more...
Mar 2011 - Oct 2012
Research Associate
Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Aug 2010 - Feb 2011
Assistant Manager
Tata Motors, Pune, India
Jun 2005 - Jul 2005

Educational

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)
Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Advisor: Prof. Satyam Suwas read more...
Aug 2005 - Jul 2010
Bachelor of Engineering (BE)
Metallurgical Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India
2005

Achievements

  • Teaching Excellence certificate for the course "Mechanical Behaviour of Materials" Laboratory at IIT Kanpur for 2018-19
  • Teaching Excellence certificate for the course "Microscopy and Microanalysis of Materials" at IIT Kanpur for 2017-18 and 2018-19
  • INSA Medal for Young Scientist 2015 INSA Medal for Young Scientist 2015
  • INSA-DFG, Bi-lateral Exchange Fellowship, Dresden, Germany 2015
  • Young Metallurgist of the Year 2015
  • Teaching Excellence certificate for the course "Crystallographic Texture and Microstructural Engineering" at IIT Kanpur for 2013-14
  • Teaching Excellence certificate for the course "Mechanical Behaviour of Materials" at IIT Kanpur for 2013-14
  • Invited speaker for International Symposium on Plasticity 2013 to 2015
  • Invited speaker for Electron Microscopy Society of India Conference 2013 and 2014
  • Second Best poster presentation at Microstructure-2009 in BARC, Mumbai
  • Second Best oral presentation in the International Conference on Microstructure and Texture in Steels (MATS) 2008, organized by Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, India
  • Highest GPA (7.4/8) for the first semester in Dept. of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (First student to be admitted for PhD after Bachelors Degree in the Department of Materials Engineering at IISc, Bangalore)
  • First Rank in Bachelor of Engineering, VNIT Nagpur
  • All India Rank 24 in Graduate Aptitude Test Examination (GATE) 2004 in Metallurgical Engineering
  • Tenth merit in Secondary School Certificate exam

Reviewer

  • Member Materials Advantage
  • Life Member Indian Institute of Metals
  • Reviewer for
    • Scientific Reports
    • Acta Materialia
    • Scripta Materialia
    • Journal of Materials and Design
    • Materials Science and Engineering A
    • Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
    • Journal of Alloys and Compounds
    • Materials Characterization
    • Acta Metallurgica Sinica
    • Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance
    • Bulletin of Materials Science
    • Transactions of Indian Institute of Metals
    • Emerging Materials Research
    • Composites A
    • Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation Journal
    • Transactions of Non Ferrous Metals Society of China