A nation’s wealth and sophistication depend on materials, because materials can improve standard of living and are key to meeting society’s need from national security and communications to health and housing. Within the last decade, dramatic changes have occurred in the field of materials science and engineering. Formerly, the scope of the field and its intellectual core comprised the invention of new materials, their processing and microstructure, and the development of a mechanistic understanding of their properties. Today, this scope represents necessary but insufficient knowledge, because system requirements and affordability motivate and constrain the role of materials. My research focuses in this area of materials science by understanding the relationship between processing-properties-microstructures of a materials process using scientific approach and suggesting improvement or optimizing the process parameters to make it efficient and cost effective.
My research interests are in the area of advanced as well as traditional materials processing to develop a mechanistic understanding of their properties-processing-microstructures through experiments and numerical modeling, and controlling and optimizing the process to make the process energy efficient and economical. The projects I have worked on are funded by various governmental agencies (DOE, NSF and USASDC) and industry. My research has produced numerous technical publications, technical reports and presentations in review meetings and national and international conferences.