Biosketch

Prof. D. Ravi Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi, and he has nearly 30 years of experience in teaching and research. His broad research area is Manufacturing, with specific research activities focused mainly on Metal Forming and Materials Processing for automotive and aerospace applications. His work includes both finite element simulation and experimental investigations of various metal forming processes involving large plastic deformation.

Prof. Ravi Kumar received the institute's Teaching Excellence Award at IIT Delhi in 2011-12, and he was the first recipient of the J.M. Mahajan award for the Outstanding Young Teacher in Mechanical Engineering in 2008. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for Metal Forming Technology, University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2008. He has been in active research collaboration with the Institute for Manufacturing Technology (LFT), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany, since 2013. He was a visiting faculty member at the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2005-06. Before joining IIT Delhi, he was with Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, where he received the Best R&D project award for the year 1997-98.

Prof. Ravi Kumar has published nearly 90 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and more than 50 papers in international conferences. He supervised 19 doctoral theses, and another 6 are in progress. He has carried out sponsored research projects funded by DST, ISRO and DRDO as the Principal Investigator and consultancy projects sponsored by industries such as Tata Steel, Cessna India, and John Deere.

Prof. Ravi Kumar was Head, Central Workshop (2017-21) at IIT Delhi and contributed to establishing the manufacturing facility (Workshop) at IITD-Abu Dhabi campus. He was also Chairman, Grades and Registration during 2012-16 at IIT Delhi. He was a member of the Board of Governors, NIFFT Ranchi (presently, National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, NIAMT) during 2017-20 and is a member of the Board of Governors, National Institute of Secondary Steel Technology (since 2023). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Production Engineering Journal (Springer) and the Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals (Springer).