Graduate Students
Name: Karanvir Saini
Faculty Supervisor(s): Dr. Navin Kumar, Dr. Satwinderjit Singh
Email: karans@iitrpr.ac.in
Year of joining: 2010-2015
Department: SMMEE
Areas of Research: Molecular dynamics simulations and nano-indentation
Status: Alumini
Karanvir Saini holds M.Tech (Design Engg.) from IIT Delhi and B.Tech (Mechanical Engg.) from PTU, Jalandhar and has been pursuing PhD at IIT Ropar since July, 2010 as ‘Institute Fellow’. He is currently working on determination of mechanical characteristics of metal nano-wires, nano-composites and biological materials using atomistic modeling and experimental techniques.
Name: Abhishek Kumar Tiwari
Faculty Supervisor(s): Dr. Jitendra Prasad and Dr. Navin Kumar
Email: ktabhishek@iitrpr.ac.in
Year of joining: 2011-2016
Research Interest(s): Orthopaedics biomechanics, Bone adaptation algorithms,
Bone fracture healing
Status: completed
After completing his ‘’Bachelor of Technology degree in mechanical engineering’ ‘from Uttar Pradesh Technical University in 2011. He has joined in School of Mechanical, Material and Energy Engineering at IIT, Ropar as a Research Scholar in 2011. He is currently working on ‘’Numerical Modeling of Long bone cross sectional adaptation due to strain environment induced by mechanical stimuli’’ under guidance of Dr. Jitendra Prasad and Dr. Navin Kumar.
Name: Deonath kumar
Faculty Supervisor(s): Dr. Navin Kumar, Dr. Vishwajeet Mehendia.
Email: deonath.kumar@iitrpr.ac.in
Year of joining: July - 2015
Department: SMMEE
Areas of Research: Mechanical characterization of the of soft tissue: Experiment and modelling.
Status: Full time
Deonath Kumar is active in area of "Mechanical characterization of the of soft tissue: Experiment and modelling" at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (Punjab), India as Ph.D Scholar under Dr. Navin Kumar and Dr. Viswajeet Mehendia since July - 2015. He has received M. Tech. in Mechatronics (Department of Mechanical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Patna (Bihar), India in 2015 and B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. Muzaffarpur (Bihar), India in 2011.
Name: Ram Naresh Yadav
Faculty Supervisor(s): Dr. Navin Kumar
Email: ramnaresh.yadav@iitrpr.ac.in
Year of joining: January - 2015
Department: SMMEE
Areas of Research: Biomaterial characterization, FEA, Biomechanics ,Closed loop drug delivery system
Status: Full time
Ram Naresh Yadav received his Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Punjab Technical University in 2013. He has been working as a research scholar in School of Mechanical, Materials and Energy Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, since Januaryr 2015. His research area includes mechanical and structural characterization of bone with metabolicdiseases, and its finite element modeling to predict bone strength.
Name: Rakesh Das
Faculty Supervisor(s): Dr. Navin Kumar
Email: rakesh.das@iitrpr.ac.in
Year of joining: January - 2016
Department: SMMEE
Areas of Research: mechanical and dynamic mechanical properties of natural structures, soft tissues
Status: National Post Doctoral Fellow (Funded by SERB-DST)
Mr. Rakesh Das is currently working as a National Post Doctoral Fellow in the SMMEE, IIT Ropar. Before joining here, he was working as a Research Scholar in the Department of Polymer Science and Technology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata. He was worked on the Ph.D. thesis entitled “Development of Elastomers From Linseed Oil And Vibration Damping Characterization Through A Fabricated Machine”. In this work, he analyzed vibration damping, shape memory, mechanical, nano-mechanical, dynamic mechanical and microstructures of engineering elastomers and nano-composites synthesized from linseed oil. His current research interests are mechanical and dynamic mechanical properties of natural structures, soft tissues, bones and also Bionic Engineering, specially dynamics and vibration damping of flying insect.
Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rakesh_Das
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakesh-das-bb3b1284
Personal webpage: https://rakeshdas2016.wixsite.com/mysite
Name: Praveer Sihota
Faculty Supervisor(s): Dr. Navin Kumar and Dr. Vishwajeet Mehandia
Email: praveer.sihota@iitrpr.ac.in, praveersihota@gmail.com
Year of joining: July, 2015
Department: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of Research: Mechanical Characterization of Biological Tissues
Status: Full time
Contact No.: 08289094945
Mr. Praveer Sihota has got his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal (MP) in 2010. He received his Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal (Karnataka) in 2013. He did his Master’s thesis from Biomedical Instrumentation Lab at CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh. Subsequently he worked as an SRF at the IIT Mandi and PGIMER Chandigarh prior joining to IIT Ropar.