Kaustubh Kulkarni
Professor

Western Laboratory - 302A
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
0512-259-6102
kkaustub@iitk.ac.in

     

Research Philosophy

The objective of our research group is to develop an understanding of the composition-process-property relationship in multicomponent systems and utilize these fundamental understanding to develop innovative materials and processes of technological importance. Our research is mainly experimental, also supported by modeling tools. The focus of our experimental studies is on mulicomponent diffusion and phase equilibria. The tools we use are kinetic models and computational thermodynamics. The technologies of interest are lighweight alloys, high temperaure materials and lead-free solders.

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Congratulations to Susanta kumar nayak and biswarupa samantaray on successfully defending their thesis

Congratulations to biswarupa samantaray on getting her publication titled "Ternary Interdiffusion Analysis in β-(Ni,Pt)Al System Pertaining to Bond Coat Applications" selected as editor's choice article for free access on springerlink

C.Raviteja has received the best poster award for the poster titled "Experimental determination of interdiffusion coefficients FeNi-Co ternary system utilizing body-diagonal couple approach" at National Symposium for Research Scholars-2025,held at IIT Kanpur, from Feb28 - March 2 2025.

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Education

Ph.D. - School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (2008)​
B.E. - Dep. of Metallurgy Govt. College of Engineering Pune (COEP), Pune, INDIA (2002)
 

Teaching Experience

  1. Diffusion in Solids, (January-May 2013); Instructor IIT Kanpur
  2. Nature and Properties of Materials, (July-December 2012); Tutor; IIT Kanpur
  3. Structures and Properties of Materials (Fall2003); TA; Purdue University
  4. Materials Processing Lab, (Spring 2005); Lab Instructor and TA; Purdue University

Professional Experience

Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India (Jul 2022 - Present)
Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India (Jun 2018 - July 2022)
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India (Jul 2012 - Jun 2018)
Researcher, GM Technical Center India, Bangalore (India Science Lab) (Dec 2010-Jun 2012)
Project Engineer, Automotive Research Association of India, Pune (Apr 2009- Dec 2010)
Process Engineer, Applied Materials Inc, Santa Clara, CA, USA (Jun 2008- Jan 2009)
Research Assistant, School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University, USA (Aug 2003–May 2008) Advisor: Prof. M. A. Dayananda
 

Peer Recognition

  1. Received "certificate of excellence 2024" from Director, IITK
  2. Editor's Choice Free Access Recognition for Paper titled "Ternary Interdiffusion Analysis in b-(Ni,Pt)Al System Pertaining to Bond Coat Applications"; Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A; 55A; 2024; pp. 2200-2212
  3. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching: MSE671, Heat Treatments and Surface Hardening, 2023
  4. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching: MSE617, Mathematics and Computational Methods, 2022
  5. Letter of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching: MSE670, Solidification Processing, 2022
  6. Invited talk in Diffusion in Solids and Liquids (DSL 2022) at Florence, Italy; "Recent Progresses in Understanding Interdiffusion Porcess and defect Kinetics in Multicomponent Alloys"; 2022
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