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- Bio Science
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- Vinod Gupta School of Management
Academy
- Academy of Classical and Folk Arts
- Partha Ghosh Academy of Leadership

Mechanical Engineering

Faculty Members

Abhijit Guha

Ph.D., University of Cambridge

Professor

Research Areas

Fluid Mechanics (Incl. Bio, Multiphase)

Heat Transfer & Thermal Science

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Aditya Bandopadhyay

Assistant Professor Grade-I
Assistant Warden, Old VSRC (for Boys)

Research Areas

Fluid Mechanics

Microfluidics

Transport in porous medium

Electrohydrodynamics

Ajay Muljibhai Sidpara

Ph.D., IIT Kanpur

Assistant Professor Grade-I

Research Areas

Surface finishing

Micromachining

Amitabha Ghosh

Distinguished Professor

Research Areas

Coming soon...

Amiya Ranjan Mohanty

Professor
Head, Mechanical Engineering

Research Areas

Noise and Vibration Control

Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis

Machinery Condition Monitoring

Automobile Engineering

Underwater Acoustics

Anandaroop Bhattacharya

Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

Associate Professor
Co-Professor-in-Charge, Academy of Classical and Folk Arts
Program Officer (Vocal Music), National Cultural Appreciation (NCA) coursess
Associate Dean, International Relations / Ranking

Research Areas

Communication, happiness & well-being

Thermal Engineering

Microfluidics

Thermal management of Li-ion batteries

Electronic Packaging and cooling

Transport in porous media

Anirvan Dasgupta

Professor

Research Areas

Mechanics of inflatable structures

Vibration induced transport

Discrete and continuous system dynamics

Rail vehicle dynamics

Arun Kumar Samantaray

Professor

Research Areas

Nonlinear Dynamics

Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis

Modelling & Diagnostics of Industrial Systems

Rail vehicle dynamics

Systems and Control

Ashish Kumar Nath

Visiting Professor

Research Areas

Additive and Laser based Manufacturing

Optimization & Modeling of Manufacturing Processes

Online Process Monitoring in LPM

Underwater Laser Processing

Laser Assisted Cold Spray Deposition

Asimava Roy Choudhury

Professor

Research Areas

Thin/thick Coatings & Nano-polymer Composites

Additive and Laser based Manufacturing

Computer control of machine tools

Design & development of machines

Non traditional manufacturing

Atul Jain

Assistant Professor Grade-I

Research Areas

Mechanics of Composites

Smart and Composite Structures

Inclusion Based Methods-Homogenization

Fatigue and Damage of Composites

Biswajit Maiti

Professor

Research Areas

Coming soon...

Cheruvu Siva Kumar

Professor
Head, Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship

Research Areas

Robotics & Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)

Additive and Laser based Manufacturing

Systems and Networking

Nanofabrication

Biomedical Systems