Members

Debopriyo joined our group in July, 2021.  He obtained his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from MAKAUT, West Bengal, followed by an M. Tech. in metallurgical & materials engineering from NIT Durgapur. Debopriyo's primary research interests involve application of molecular dynamics and machine learning methods to examine the structure and shock deformation behavior of Cu-Zr-Al metallic glasses.

email: debopriyo12101994@kgpian.iitkgp.ac.in

Ranesh is the newest member of our group. He holds an undergraduate degree in metallurgy from NIFFT Ranchi and a masters in metallurgical and materials engineering from IIT Kharagpur. As a PhD candidate in our group, Ranesh  focusses his efforts on gaining a better understanding of the structure and properties of grain boundaries extracted through atomistic simulations. In particular his work involves investigating the extent of grain boundary segregation and its effect on GB mobility and mechanical properties of polycrystalline alloys. He also employs machine learning techniques for analyzing the structural features of grain boundaries.

email: raneshkrsaha@kgpian.iitkgp.ac.in

Bibhu is a metallurgist and carried out his doctoral research under the joint supervision of Prof. Rahul Mitra and Prof. Amlan Dutta. His major theme of study was the fabrication and compositional, microstructural, and mechanical characterization of glassy metallic thin films. He specializes in the experimental methods of sputtering, electron microscopy, and nano-indentation. Moreover, his work also involved molecular dynamics simulations of nano-indentation of metallic glass surfaces. Bibhu is currently a Research Scientist at the Texas A&M University, USA.

email: bibhu.igit@iitkgp.ac.in

Dr. Sweta Kumari holds bachelors and masters degrees in metallurgical and materials engineering. Her doctoral work included atomistically informed numerical modeling of dislocation nucleation. She employed the tools of classical atomistic simulation to evaluate the generalized fault energies and transition pathways for nucleation of dislocation loops. In addition, she also examined the issue of heterogeneous dislocation nucleation from the perspective of yield point statistics. Sweta is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering of NIT Warangal.

email: ksweta@nitw.ac.in

Sadgun holds an undergrad degree in mechanical engineering, and a postgraduate degree in metallurgical engineering. The domain of his doctoral research was atomistic and continuum modeling of core structures and Peiers stresses in crystal dislocations. His tools involved molecular statics and dynamics simulations, numerical implementation of continuum models, and analytical methods. His work involved the Peierls-Nabarro modeling of twinning dislocations in fcc metals. Sadgun is presently a Post-Doctoral fellow at Department of Applied Mechanics of IIT Madras.

email: sadgun.pulagam@iitkgp.ac.in