Dr. Srikari S is a Professor in Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering Department. Specialization in Ceramics and composites, coatings, biomaterials, selection of materials and manufacturing processes for aerospace, automotive applications. Working has Head of Bio-materials Research Center, previously worked has Associated Dean Research and Head of the Department. Had worked as PI and Co-PI for more than 8 sponsored projects from DST, AR&DB, GTRE, ICMR, DBT, BRNS and Faurecia Clean Mobility. Sponsored projects were aimed at development and studies on coatings for various applications like biomaterials, energy and sensors. Have conducted several corporate trainings on Selection of Materials and Manufacturing for Automotive and Aerospace Industries. Have supervised more than 30 PG students on material and manufacturing solutions for automotive and aerospace applications and 2 Ph.D. Scholars. Dr Suresh R is Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore, India. His passion for research runs deep into areas such as the processing of hard and refractory materials, traditional and non-traditional machining, surface Engineering, metal matrix composites, Joining Process, Additive Manufacturing and robotics and automation system. He has organized several national and international conferences and workshops in the field of material science and manufacturing. He has authored more than 150 peer reviewed international journals papers and received research grants from AICTE, DST and KCTU, GoK. He received "Outstanding Scientist Award" from the Centre for advanced Research and Design Chennai in 2015 and ''Annual Exemplary Faculty-Research 2020'' Award from RUAS in 2020. He is an official reviewer of original research articles in the field of materials and manufacturing. He is also a member of MISTE, SAE India and other Professional Societies, and is an active consultant to many reputed manufacturing industries and R&D organizations. Dr. Rahul M Cadambi is a Professor at RUAS. He now heads the Composites Materials and Technologies Research Centre (CMTRC) which he was instrumental in establishing in 2017 in collaboration with Kazan National Technical and Research University (KNRTU-KAI), Russia. He is the Centre Coordinator for Centre of Excellence in 'Computational Mechanics' for the Ramaiah Group which is mentored by Prof. J. N. Reddy, Texas A&M University. He was involved in incubating a private company, Valdel Advanced Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in Peenya campus. As an investigator, he is actively involved in various funded and consultancy projects of around Rs. 450 lakhs for various Defence organizations,Armed Forces and other R&D laboratories. He coordinated to enlist RUAS as a nodal centre for BRDs (Indian Air Force). His 16-year-long career is marked by industrial, research and academic accomplishments. His research interests include polymer composites, synthesis of nanomaterials, elastomeric and polymer nanocomposites, damage tolerant design of composite materials and computational modeling of defects, fracture and fatigue processes in composites.
