| Prof Surendra Singh Kachhwaha Professor & Dean Ph.D, M.Tech., B.E. Email : Surendra.Singh@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: He has vast experience in the application of evaporative cooling, sprays, ice slurry generation technology, cascaded refrigeration system, biodiesel production techniques, waste heat recovery systems, renewable energy based poly-generation systems and resource assessment of offshore renewable energy(solar, wind and wave). Brief Profile: Dr. Surendra Singh Kachhwaha is currently engaged with the responsibility of faculty as "Chair Professor Suzlon" in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Technology, PDPU.Dr. Kachhwaha received his PhD and M. Tech. Degree from IIT Delhi and ITBHU, Varanasi respectively. He has teaching experience of more than 30 years in Mechanical Engineering at UG and PG level and have around 60 Technical publications in reputed national and international journals and more than 80 publications in national/international conference proceedings. He has guided five PhDs and 30 M. Tech. Dissertations.
Besides, having been conferred with research awards and fellowships, Dr. Kachhwaha has carried out various awards and fellowships, Dr. Kachhwaha has carried out various consultancy/research project (worth 3.5 crores) where the fundamental and applications of mechanical and energy engineering are the main consideration.
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| Dr Jatinkumar Patel Associate Professor & HoD B.Tech., M.Tech., Ph.D Email : Jatin.Patel@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Solar Desalination, Solar Drying, Solar Cooling, Solar Water Heating, Sustainable water treatment Brief Profile: Dr. Jatin Patel is serving as a faculty member in Mechanical Engg Dept at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University since last 9 years. He is graduated from SVNIT, Surat and Ph. D. from HemChandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat. At present, he is associated with Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Technology, PDPU. He has total 13 years of teaching experience in reputed technical institutions and taught various subjects like Engineering Drawing, Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Thermodynamics, Turbo-machines and Solar Thermal Systems at UG and PG level. He has guided more than 5 post graduated students for their dissertation work. Presently he is involved in the research work towards solar parabolic trough collector for different applications.
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| Prof Anurag Mudgal Professor B.Tech., M.Tech., Ph.D, M.B.A Email : Anurag.Mudgal@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Desalination, Multi-effect DIstillation, Heat transfer applications of renewable energy for cooling, Food preservation and other sustainable environmental issues Brief Profile: Dr Anurag Mudgal has pursued a distinguished career path as an industrial engineer, academic researcher and teacher in higher education. After completing B Tech from Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering and Technology he joined paper industry as a GET and then project engineer for four years before returning to academia. He completed his M Tech and then PhD from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Before joining PDPU in January 2014 he worked in many prestigious Engineering Institutes and University of Uttar Pradesh. He was invited to work on a collaborative project with Aston University, UK by Royal Academy of Engineering in the year 2015 for three months. He his handling many projects including DST, DBT, EU-INDIA (under Horizon 2020 scheme) and Going Global (Under British Council scheme) on application of renewable energy for cooling and low cost advanced water desalination purposes.
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| Dr VISHVESH BADHEKA Professor B.E., Ph.D, Diploma, M.E. Email : Vishvesh.Badheka@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Advanced Welding Processes, Friction Stir Welding, Friction Stir Processing- surface composite, super-plasticity, Friction Surfacing, BT-FSW, Hybrid FSW, FSW of dissimilar metals, Narrow Gap-GMAW/FCAW/MCAW. A-TIG welding of P91,RAFM steels, Hybrid Welding and Wear of surface composites. Brief Profile: Dr Badheka, studied metallurgy at The M.S.University of Baroda, received Bachelor, Master and PhD in Metallurgical Engineering. Presently he working as Professor at Mechanical Engineering as well as Heading the Dept of Mechanical Engineering Dept.
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| Dr Abhishek Kumar Associate Professor Ph.D, M.E., B.E. Email : Abhishek.K@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering. Brief Profile: Working in the area of Manufacuring, ECM, EDM and Industrial Engineering, with work experience of around 20 years.
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| Dr KIRAN MYSORE Associate Professor B.E., M.E., Ph.D Email : MB.Kiran@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Project management, Surface Metrology- Image processing applications, Additive manufacturing, Nano-Surface Metrology & Pattern recognition. Brief Profile: Dr.M.B.Kiran received his Ph.D. in the area of Surface Metrology from the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T), Madras, India, in the year 1997. He is a certified project manager (P.M.P. from Pennsylvania, U.S.A.). He has teaching, industry, and research experience of 25 Years. He has worked in many multinational companies. He has more than 15 years of post-Ph.D. experience. He is currently guiding five research scholars pursuing Ph.D.
Dr. M.B.Kiran has been working actively in many academic and professional bodies. He has successfully completed many mission-critical projects for clients from U.S.A and U.K.
Dr.M.B.Kiran has published many technical papers in National /International Journals/and conferences. He has conducted many training programs for practicing engineers pursuing P.M.P. certification.
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| Dr Nanji Hadia Associate Professor B.Tech., M.Tech., Ph.D Email : Nanji.Hadia@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Enhanced oil recovery, CO2 storage, solar thermal applications, heat transfer Brief Profile: Dr. Nanji Hadia has joined the department in 2022 as Associate Professor. He earned Ph.D. in 2008 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He did post-doctoral research at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. He had worked at A*STAR, Singapore as Scientist from 2014 to 2021. He has published 28 research articles in journals and conferences of international repute.
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| Dr Pavan Gurrala Associate Professor Ph.D, M.E., B.Tech. Email : Pavan.Gurrala@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing, Bio-Printing, Implants, Medical Aids, Reverse Engineering. Brief Profile: Dr. Pavan Kumar G has completed his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. He has done his ME in Design Engineering and PhD in Additive Manufacturing from BITS Pilani. He works in the area of polymer-based extrusion technologies. His areas of interest are the Design and Manufacturing of Bio-Implants, Medical aids for the needy in collaboration with prominent Orthopedic Surgeons and Dentists.
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| Dr Rajesh Patel Associate Professor B.E., M.E, Ph.D Email : Rajesh.Patel@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Battery Thermal Management System, Water Desalination and Thermal System Designs. Brief Profile: Dr. Rajesh Patel has pursued PhD from New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA in year 2011. After completing PhD, he has joined PDPU as an Assistant Professor in year 2011. He has more than 20 years of teaching, research and administrative experience. Dr. Patel has worked on various key positions such as Head IQAC, Dean - Faculty of Engineering and Technology etc. He has visited many countries like USA, Canada, Australia, Portugal, Dubai and South Korea for International collaboration and professional activities. He has worked as Principal (In Charge) at Gujarat Power Engineering and Research Institute, Mehsana on deputation from PDPU for three years.
Dr. Patel has more than 25 research papers in Scopus indexed journals, 01 product patent granted, 02 product patents granted and 06 design patents.
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| Dr RAMESH GUDURU Associate Professor Ph.D, M.Tech., B.Tech. Email : Ramesh.Guduru@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: CORROSION
ENERGY STORAGE (BATTERIES AND SUPERCAPACITORS)
NANOMATERIALS
SPRAY COATINGS
MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF MATERIALS
SENSORS
CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE Brief Profile: Prof. Ramesh obtained his bachelor's and masters' degrees from IIT Roorkee and IIT Madras, respectively. Following that he obtained his PhD from NC State University (USA) in Nanomaterials research. He has completed his postdoc at a navy base in Monterey Bay, California, and then University of Arkansas. Following that he worked at University of Michigan as a Scientist and then became an entrepreneur and started a company "CSquared Innovations LLC" in partnership with his colleagues and sold it off by 2014. He then joined Texas State University - Lamar University as a full time tenure track faculty in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. In 2019 July, he moved back to India and joined SOT - PDPU. He has more than 60+ articles published in journals and conference proceedings. He holds four international patents. He is in the process of submitting two more patent applications on - Synthesis of Nanomaterials and Heat Shields.
He has guided/graduated more than 20 students for their PhD and MS. Currently he is running research programs with B. Tech Mechanical and Chemical Engineering students.
He is the convener/lead of the newly formed Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research Group at PDPU.
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| Dr Vivek Patel Associate Professor Ph.D Email : VivekP@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Thermal system design, Soft computing techniques for thermal system design and optimization, Non-conventional refrigeration, Advanced refrigeration and air-conditioning, Cryogenics Brief Profile: Dr. Vivek Patel has obtained his Ph.D. from S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat with the specialization in advanced optimization algorithms and its application to thermal system design and optimization. He has published several research papers in the international journals of repute.
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| Dr Garlapati Nagababu Assistant Professor B.Tech., M.Tech., Ph.D Email : Nagababu.Garlapati@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Offshore renewable energy, Wind and Wave resource assessment, GIS-based analysis of Wind and wave farm development, climate change studies, Finite element analysis, Machine design Brief Profile: Dr. Garlapati Nagababu is presently working as an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department, PDPU, Gandhinagar since 2013. He completed his PhD in the field of offshore wind energy and M.Tech from IIT Guwahati in machine design specialisation. Dr. Nagababu has a teaching experience of more than seven years in the field of mechanical engineering at UG and PG level. His research mainly focuses on offshore renewable resource assessment and software development, development of small-scale wind turbine and hybrid energy system. He has published several research articles in highly reputed journals and international conferences in the field of energy. He received the best paper award at AEDCEE 2017, Thailand and ICCGE 2018, Paris. He is currently working on different projects funded by ISRO and ORSP.
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| Dr Jaydeep Patel Assistant Professor B.Tech., M.Tech., Ph.D Email : Jaydeep.Patel@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Wind energy system design and analysis, Wind farm layout optimization, Wind farm cost analysis, Optimization of renewable energy systems, Computational optimization, Multi-disciplinary optimization of mechanical design and systems Brief Profile: Dr. Jaydeep Patel received his Ph.D degree from Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University with the specialization in renewable system optimization. He had developed the geometric pattern-based approach for turbine placement in a wind farm. He also modified the recently developed meta-heuristics optimization method for the optimization of a turbine positioning in a wind farm and cost optimization. His major areas of research interests are lie in wind energy systems modeling and optimization, wind farm layout optimization, wind farm cost analysis, and multi-disciplinary optimization of mechanical design and systems and R&D. He completed M.Tech from National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur- India, in 2011. He has also work as a nodal officer for Siemens Center of Excellence-PDPU.
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| Dr Jaykumar Vora Assistant Professor B.E., M.Tech., Ph.D Email : jay.vora@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Advanced Welding technology, Welding metallurgy, Advanced manufacturing processes Brief Profile: Dr. Jaykumar Vora completed his Ph.D. in the field of advanced welding technology at PDPU. His Ph.D. research project was pivoted to A-TIG welding of RAFM steel. He completed his Masters in welding technology from MSU Baroda. He also worked as a visiting faculty and research scholar at Lamar university, USA. He has extensive industrial experience and completed his masters research project at M/s Larsen & Toubro Limited. He is currently working on techniques to incorporate nanotechnology in welding processes for improving the performance. He is also currently working on multiple projects funded by BRNS, ORSP and other funding bodies.
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| Dr Nirav Patel Assistant Professor Ph.D, M.Tech., B.Tech. Email : Nirav.Patel@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Stress Analysis, Design Optimization, Finite element analysis, Composites, Computational mechanics, Impact Analysis Brief Profile: Dr. Nirav Patel completed his B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Vishwakarma Mahavidhyala Engineering College, Vidhyanagar, Gujarat, India in 2009. He did his M.Tech. in CAD/CAM (2011) and Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics (2015) from Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Gujarat, India. Presently he is working as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India since December 2013.
Dr. Patel has a teaching experience of more than 8 years in the field of Mechanical Engineering at under graduate and post graduate level. He worked 3 years at Gandhinagar Institute of Technology, Gujarat Technological University, India. Dr. Patel has published number of research articles in reputed journals and in international/national conferences in the field of computational mechanics. Recently, he has started exploring new areas of research, in stress analysis of plates weakened by complex shaped cut-outs, dynamic stress concentration, impact analysis of plates and optimization of composite materials.
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| Dr Pankaj Sahlot Assistant Professor Ph.D, M.Tech., B.Tech. Email : Pankaj.Sahlot@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Additive manufacturing/3D Printing, Friction Stir Welding and processing, Experimental and numerical modeling of advanced manufacturing processes, Tool Wear, Microstructural and mechanical characterization of materials and Simulation of heat transfer and fluid flow. Brief Profile: Dr. Pankaj Sahlot completed his PhD from IIT Gandhinagar and also visited University of North Texas Denton, USA for six months as a visiting researcher during his Ph.D. His research work has been published in various reputed journals and conferences. He has also published 14 patents in the domain of Mechanical Engineering. He did M.Tech from IIT Hyderabad and also received award for Academic Excellence from Prof. C.N.R Rao.
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| Dr Rajat Saxena Assistant Professor B.Tech., M.Tech., Ph.D Email : Rajat.Saxena@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: His principal research interest lies in the field of design, implementation, and testing of Latent Thermal Energy Storage (LTES) systems for various solar thermal applications; design, and development of battery thermal management systems; solar cooling through adsorption and absorption; nano enhancement of Phase Change Materials (PCMs) for increasing the rate of heat transfer. Brief Profile: Dr. Saxena completed his Bachelor's (B.Tech) degree in Mechanical Engineering from U.P. Technical University and did his Master's (M.Tech) and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Presently he is deputed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has won a few laurels to his credit during his research. He was awarded with Best Paper Award at 4th World Congress in International Conference on Heat transfer and fluid flow (HTFF'18) in Madrid, Spain. He has won first prize in Industry Day 2019 for Make in India theme at IIT Delhi. He has also received a runner-up prize in International Conference NFEST 2018 at Delhi Technical University, Delhi in January 2018. He has published several international journal papers, four book chapters and attended more than 15 International and National Conferences in India and abroad.
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| Dr Rakesh Chaudhari Assistant Professor M.Tech., B.E., Ph.D Email : Rakesh.Chaudhari@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Non-Conventional Machining, Electrical Discharge Machining, Shape memory alloys, Optimization, Wire Electrical Discharge Machining, Design of Experiments, Additive manufacturing, Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing. Brief Profile: Dr. Rakesh Chaudhari is presently working as a Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, PDPU, Gandhinagar since July 2014. He completed his bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from Government college of engineering, Jalgaon. He completed his M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from SVNIT, Surat in June 2014. Dr. Rakesh Chaudhari has completed his dissertation from IIT, Bombay. He has completed his PhD research at PDPU in the field of Experimental investigations & Optimization of Electrical Discharge Machining Process Parameters of Shape Memory Alloys.
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| Dr RAVI KANT Assistant Professor B.Tech., M.Tech., Ph.D Email : Ravi.kant@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Robotics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Remote Sensing, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid Flow Instability & Control. Brief Profile: Dr. Ravi has completed his Ph.D degree from IIT Gandhinagar in Jan 2020, in the area of active fluid flow control. His research interests are broadly Robotics, Remote Sensing & GIS, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Fluid flow instability and Control.
He has received his bachelor's degree from IIT Madras in Aerospace Engineering in 2008. He served as a Design Engineer at TAAL tech, bangalore in 2009. He has completed his M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur in Mechanical Systems Design in 2012. His master's thesis work was on design, dynamics and control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). He later worked as an Assistant Manager in Pinnacle Infotech Solutions, Durgapur (CAD-CAM solution).
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| Dr Vinay Vakharia Assistant Professor Ph.D Email : Vinay.Vakharia@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Areas of Interest: Machine Learning,Fault Diagnosis,Signal Processing Techniques,Pattern Recognition. Brief Profile: Dr.Vinay Vakharia completed his Ph.D. from IIITDM Jabalpur in year 2015 in the area of Fault diagnosis.His Thesis title was Diagnosis of Bearing Faults Using Vibration Signatures and Machine Learning Techniques.He has applied Signal Processing techniques such as wavelets and artificial intelligence techniques to diagnose various bearing faults.He did his M.Tech in CAD/CAM from VIT Vellore and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from RGPV Bhopal.
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