Anil BandiJul 2021 - Apr 2022
Current Affiliation: Assistant Manager at Amara Raja
Batteries Ltd.
Research: Mechanical anisotropy of rare-earth free Mg
alloys.
Vijayavarman ChakkravarthyMar 2022 - Oct 2022
Current Affiliation: Research Fellow at Cranfield
University, UK.
Research: Additive manufacturing
Nandu V NamboothiriMay 2022 - Feb 2023
Current Affiliation: Senior Associate Engineer at
Caterpillar Inc
Research: Effect of microstructure on fatigue crack
propagation of engineering materials using crystal
plasticity finite element method.
Darshan ChalapathiJan 2023 - Jul 2023
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Associate at Western
University, Canada.
Research: Deformation behaviour of Alloy 625 at
different temperatures.
Narasimha Manoj Settem2020
Current Affiliation: PostDoc at Sapienza University of
Rome, Italy.
Thesis: Atomistic modelling of the structure and the
stability of silver-copper nanoalloys
Darshan Chalapathi2022
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Associate at Western
University, Canada.
Thesis: Micromechanics of duplex stainless steels:
experiments and crystal plasticity modelling
Sukumar Agaram2022
Current Affiliation: Principal Engineer at GE Power
Thesis: Multiscale modeling of stability of residual
stress due to shot peening in IN718
Co-Guide: Prof. M S Sivakumar (Applied Mechanics)
Sanket Sanjay Thakre2022
Current Affiliation: Specialist - Digital twin at Bosch
Global Software Technologies
Thesis: Materials informatics enabled quantification
of structure-property correlations: Application to DP
steels
Sarnath Singh2024Current Affiliation: Post-doctorate at USP, Sao PauloThesis:
Phase-field modeling of damage and brittle fracture
in multi-phase material
Co-Guide: Prof. Ratna Kumar Annabatula (Mechanical)
Avinash Hariharan2015
Current Affiliation: Scientist, Steel Institute at RWTH
Aachen University
Thesis: Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Modeling of
High Temperature Low Stress Creep in Two-Phase
Superalloys
Chaitanya Paramatmuni2016
Current Affiliation: Research Associate at The
University of Sheffield
Thesis: Modeling deformation and texture evolution of
hexagonal close-packed materials using crystal
plasticity fast Fourier transforms : Application to
magnesium alloy AZ31
Nitesh Raj Jaladurgam2017
Current Affiliation: Analysis Engineer Consultant,
Condesign AB, Sweden
Thesis: Dynamic recrystallization and microstructure
evolution of Ni based superalloy Hastelloy C-276
Bhavanish Kumar Singh2019
Current Affiliation: Process Assurance Manager
(R&D), DoDP, Government of India
Thesis: Microstructure evolution in niobium rich gamma
titanium aluminide alloy during hot compression.
Srinivas Chakrapani Yamujala2021
Current Affiliation: PhD Student at Georgia Institute of
Technology, USA
Thesis: An FFT based strain gradient crystal
plasticity study of grain boundaries
Siddhant Lama2021
Current Affiliation: Mahindra & Mahindra, Bombay
Thesis: Numerical study of the grain boundary stress
using fielddislocation mechanics and a fast Fourier
transformation based method
Co-Guide: Prof. Parag Ravindran (Mechanical)
Deepika Tirumalasetty2021
Current Affiliation: Associate Analyst, Lennox India
Technology Centre
Thesis: Study of the influence of orientation
relationships on the deep drawability of two-phase
steels
Co-Guide: Prof. Sankaran S (MME)
Soumya Sourav Sarangi2022
Current Affiliation: PhD student, Purdue University
Thesis: An atomistic study of the influence of carbon
on the core structure of screw dislocation in BCC Fe
and its consequences on non-Schmid behavior
Jayavarshini E2023
Current Affiliation: Process Engineer, Ohmium Operations
pvt. ltd.
Thesis: Electrochemical and hydrogen permeation study
of pearlitic steel.
co-guided with: Prof. Lakshman Neelakantan (MME)
2025
Thesis: Modelling of residual stresses in additively
manufactured nickel and titanium based alloys.
Shyam Sunder Prabhu S
2025
Thesis: Remanant useful life of aeroengine components
undergoing in-service fatigue-creep damage.
Abhineet Kumar
2024
Thesis: Study of low cycle fatigue behaviour of nickel
based superalloy.
Vishal Kumar Kadambala
2024
Thesis: Effect of heat treatment on 3d printed alpha +
beta titanium alloys.
Sakthi Gnanavel S
2023
Thesis: Finite Element Modelling of residual stress
evolution during Directed Energy Deposition of
Ti-6Al-4V.
GVS Subhash
2023
Thesis: Prediction of deformation behavior of
materials using machine learning.
Manvendra Mishra
2022
Thesis: Molecular dynamics study on the effect of
deformation temperature on the tension compression
behaviour of single crystal Mg and Mg-Al alloy.
Ankit Surana
2020
Thesis: Molecular dynamics study of
dislocation-precipitate interaction in Ni-Ni3Al
system.
K Sumanth
2019
Thesis: Modelling static recrystallization using
cellular automata.
B Maheswara
2019
Thesis: Finite element modelling of sheet metal
forming processes.
Faisal Waqar
2018
Thesis: Prediction of deformation behavior of
materials using machine learning.
P. Sandeep
2018
Thesis: Finite element simulations of sheet metal
forming using anisotropic yield criteria.
M Lakshmi Sravani
2017
Thesis: Processing-structure-property correlations in
titanium alloy BT-14.
CNV Chiranjeevi
2017
Thesis: Finite element simulations of springback in
sheet metal forming.
Prince Gideon
2015
Thesis: Nucleation and growth of deformation twins in
magnesium alloy AZ31.
Pawar Kishore Kundlik
2014
Thesis: Study of intragranular misoreintations in
cubic polycrystalline materials.
Dual Degree Students
Mayank Raj
2021
Thesis: Material informatics: Establishing
structure-property linkages using machine learning
techniques.
co-guided with: Prof. Ratnakumar Annabatula (Mechanical)
Mythreyi Ramesh
2020
Thesis: Application of a dual grid rigid viscoplatic
spectral formulation for the estimation of
micromechanical fields in polycrystals.
Chirag Bhattad
2019
Thesis: Building a fatigue strength predictor for
steel using an ensemble deep learning model.
Harshit saxena
2018
Thesis: Quantitative characterization of
microstructural images.
Srihari Sundar
2017
Thesis: GPU implementation of a Fourier transform
based spectral solver for mechanical boundary value
problem.
Ankita Naik
2017
Thesis: Application of materials informatics for
structure-property correlations.
Aaditya Lakshmanan
2016
Thesis: Dislocation and defect density based modeling
of deformation behavior of irradiated FCC
polycrystals.
Siddarth Krishna Kumar
2016
Thesis: Effect of microstructural features on the
deformation behaviour of dual phase steels using
finite element method.
Jatin Mandawat
2015
Thesis: Molecular dynamics study of dislocation
interaction with gamma channel in nickel based
superalloys.
Siddarth Thota
2014
Thesis: Atomistic modelling of interaction energies
between point defects and other crystal defects.
B.Tech. Students
S R Naveen
2018
Thesis: Microstructure evolution using cellular
automata.
Rohit Pinnamaraju
2017
Thesis: Modelling of phase transformations in steels.
Suryanarayan Raju
2016
Thesis: Effect of grain size on processing maps of
nickel based superalloys.
Hari Prasad Bukke
2014
Thesis: Modelling of defects in nuclear materials.
