Dr. Balaguru Sethuraman obtained
his M.Tech from IIT Madras and PhD from College of Engineering Guindy under
Anna University. He carried out his postdoctoral research work at National
University of Singapore. He works as Dean of School of Mechanical Engineering
at VIT Bhopal. He has 28 years of experience in leading Engineering
Institutions. In 2019, he was invited to Kocaeli University, Turkey, under the
Mevlana Mobility Programme with a grant as an International faculty to handle a
technical course. He solely authored a best-selling textbook on Dynamics of
Machines under the Cengage Learning. He brought out two edited books. He is an Editorial team member of
International Journal of Metallic Materials. In 2008, his proposal fetched a
grant of Rs. 8 lakhs under the MODROBS Scheme. He established an International
chapter known as Material Advantage Student Chapter at VIT Bhopal as Faculty
Advisor. He has guided 3 PhD scholars and 30 M.Tech projects. He published more
than 70 papers in reputed journals. He has 5 patents and several book
chapters to his credit. He has been a reviewer for many reputable journals. He
obtained two PG diplomas from Annamalai University. His research fields are
cladding, composites and nuclear materials. He
received INR 2,00,000 under the Support for Excellence in Academic Research
(SPEAR) program as PI. He is a Fellow as well as CEng. of
the Institution of Engineers. He is a member of ASME and ISTE.
Dr. Manoj Gupta He obtained his
M.E from IISc Bangalore with gold medal and PhD from the University of
California Irvine. He carried out his postdoctoral research work at the
University of Alberta, Canada. He works as Provost’s Chair Professor at
National University of Singapore. He has more than 700 journals publications
and 200 conference publications. He has more than 27000 citations and h-index
of 85 to his credit. He has been a Visiting Professor of King Saud University,
Saudi Arabia; Kobe University, Japan; University of Lille, France; and Indian
Institute of Science: Brahm Prakash Chair Professor. He has collaborations with
the Universities in Qatar, Oman, Egypt and Sweden. He has been an invited
Professor of Vel Tech University India and Wuhan University China. He is an
Editor of many reputable journals. His field of research is Magnesium based
Biomaterials including composite materials, Lightweight materials with current
focus on nano composites and syntactic composite and metastable composites.
