Keynote Speakers|
Dr Manoj Gupta was a former Head of Materials Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Director designate of Materials Science and Engineering Initiative at NUS, Singapore. He did his Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, USA (1992), and postdoctoral research at University of Alberta, Canada (1992). He is currently among top 0.6% researchers as per Stanford’ List, among Top 1% Scientist of the World Position by The Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and among 1% among scientists as per ResearchGate. His international rank among Materials Researchers in World is currently at 1305. To his credit are: (i) Disintegrated Melt Deposition technique and (ii) Hybrid Microwave Sintering technique, an energy efficient solid-state processing method to synthesize alloys/micro/nano-composites. He has published over 650 peer reviewed journal papers and owns two US patents and two Trade Secrets. His current h-index is 79, citations greater than 21500 and reads greater than 100,000 (Research Gate). He has also co-authored eight books, published by John Wiley, Springer and MRF - USA. He is Editor-in-chief/Editor of twelve international peer reviewed journals. A multiple award winner, he actively collaborate/visit Japan, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, China, USA and India as a visiting researcher, professor and chair professor.
Speech title: Potential of Cryogenic Treatment in Enhancing Multiple Properties of Magnesium Composites.
Professor Krishna Murari Pandey, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India.
Prof. K. M. Pandey did Ph.D in 1994 from Department of Mechanical Engineering IIT Kanpur, India in 1994. Currently he is working as Professor (HAG) of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam in India since September 2018 and as Professor since May 2006. He obtained B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from BHUIT Varanasi in 1980 now known as IITBHU and M. Tech in Heat Power engineering in 1987 from the same Institute. He has authored more than 135 research papers in SCI/SCIE/ Scopus indexed Journals and Conferences. His h-index is 16 in Scopus and SCI and 22 in google scholar. He has also authored 6 books and 9 book chapters. Currently he is working in the area of thermofluids and manufacturing sciences. He has also served as seconded faculty consultant at CPSC, Manila, Philippines in 2002. He has served NIT Silchar as Dean Faculty welfare and Dean Research in the year 2011 and 2012. He has served as Head of Department for two terms of 3 years at NIT Silchar. He is taken as member of BOG, NIT Silchar twice. He is a fellow of Institution of Engineers India and member of ASME. He is life member of Welding Society of India and life member of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Society of India. .. Prof. K M Pandey had been key note speaker and co-editor in 2nd Annual International Conference on Advanced Material Engineering [AME2016], April 15-17, 2016, Wuhan, Hubei, China., keynote speaker in in International Seminar in Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, Singapore, 22-24 June 2018 and Key note Speaker and General Chair 5th International Conference on Green Materials and Environmental Engineering (GMEE2019), Guangzhou, China, Dec 27 - 29 2019. He is taken as member of editorial boards and reviewer in many reputed International Journals.
Stefano Mariani received an M.S. degree (cum laude) in civil engineering in 1995, and a Ph.D. degree in structural engineering in 1999; both degrees are from the Polytechnic University of Milan. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Milan. He was a research scholar at the Danish Technical University in 1997, an adjunct professor at Penn State University in 2007, and a visiting professor at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2009. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Algorithms, International Journal on Advances in Systems and Measurements, Inventions, Machines, Micro and Nanosystems, Micromachines, and Sensors. He has been a recipient of the Associazione Carlo Maddalena Prize for graduate students (1996), and of the Fondazione Confalonieri Prize for PhD students (2000). He has co-authored around 300 journal and conference papers.His main research interests are: the reliability of MEMS that are subject to shocks and drops; the structural health monitoring of composite structures through MEMS sensors; numerical simulations of ductile fracture in metals and of quasi-brittle fracture in heterogeneous and functionally graded materials; extended finite element methods; the calibration of constitutive models via extended and sigma-point Kalman filters; and multi-scale solution methods for dynamic delamination in layered composites.
Speech title: Truss metamaterials: tuning of band gaps through geometric and material nonlinearities.