Prof. M.J.N.V. Prasad

Assistant Professor : October 2012-May 2018
Associate Professor : May 2018-till date

E-mail: mjnvprasad@iitb.ac.in
Tel: +(91 22) 2576 7642

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D-2010): Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, KA.
Master of Engineering (M.E-2004): Metallurgy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, KA.
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech-2002): Metallurgical Engineering, Regional Engineering College (presently, National Institute of Technology), Warangal, AP.
Diploma in Metallurgical Engineering (D.Met.E-1997), MRAGR Govt. Polytechnic, Vizianagaram, AP.

Post-doctoral research associate (2011-2012), School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI-02912, USA.
Assistant Professor (Since October 2012), Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai.

Excellence in Teaching 2015 award with a cash prize of INR 20,000 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, INDIA.
INAE-Young Engineer 2013 award with a cash prize of INR 100,000 from Indian National Academy of Engineering, New Delhi, INDIA.
Best Ph.D thesis 2010 in Materials Engineering with Prof. K P Abraham medal and a cash prize of INR 3,000 from IISc, Bangalore, INDIA.
2010-Acta student award with a cash prize of USD 2000 for excellent paper published in Scripta Materialia journal, USA.
K K Malik Medal with a cash prize of INR 2,000 for academic excellence in M.E 2002-2004 from IISc, Bangalore, INDIA.

Nanocrystalline, Amorphous, Metal Matrix Composites and Implant Materials
Mechanical Behavior of Materials including Indentation, Fatigue, Creep and Superplasticity
Electrodeposition and Alloy Development
Oxidation and Protective Coatings

Optimization of hot workability and control of microstructure in Cu-Cr-Ti-Zr Alloy: An approach through thermo-mechanical simulation, ISRO, 2016-19
Nature of extraordinary high and low superplastic elongations in severely deformed ultrafine-grained Al-Mg-Sc-Zr alloy, DST, 2013-15.
Synthesis, microstructural stability and mechanical characteristics of Ni-Al and Ni-Ti based nano-EMMCs, IITB, 2012-16.
Thermo-mechanical behaviour of bond and top coats at various length scales and under high temperatures (Co-PI, Jointly with Krishna Jonnalagadda, ME), ARDB, 2016-21.
High strain rate deformation of aerospace Al alloys: Experimental studies and development of constitutive relationships (Co-PI, Jointly with Krishna Jonnalagadda, ME), ISRO, 2013-17.

M J N V Prasad and A H Chokshi, “Deformation-induced thermally activated grain growth in nanocrystalline nickel,” Scripta Materialia, 67 (2012) 133-136.
M J N V Prasad and A H Chokshi, “Microstructural stability and superplasticity in an electrodeposited nanocrystalline Ni-P alloy,” Acta Materialia, 59 (2011) 4055-4067.
M J N V Prasad and A H Chokshi, “Extraordinary high strain rate superplasticity in electrodeposited nano-nickel and alloys,” Scripta Materialia, 63 (2010) 136-139.
M J N V Prasad, S Suwas and A H Chokshi, “Microstructural evolution and mechanical characteristics in nanocrystalline nickel with a bimodal grain size distribution,” Materials Science and Engineering A 503 (2009) 86-91.
M P Phaniraj, M J N V Prasad and A H Chokshi, “Grain-size distribution effects in plastic flow and failure,” Materials Science and Engineering A 463 (2007) 231-237.

Total publications (Nov. 2012): 10

Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science