Education

PhD, Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay MH (2017-2024)

PhD thesis - Effect of dislocations on phase separation and coarsening: a phase-field study

M.Tech, Materials Science and Engineering (CGPA 9.91)

National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli TN (2012-2014)

M.Tech thesis - Surface modification of ZM21 Magnesium alloys by Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation for bone implant application.

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering (CGPA: 8.27)

TKM College of Engineering, University of Kerala (presently APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University) (2007-2011)

Industrial Experience

Junior Manager (Engineering), Hot Rolling Mill, Rourkela Steel Plant, Steel Authority of India Ltd. (Jun 2014 – Jan 2016)

Responsibilities:

Co-ordintation of the mechanical maintenance activities as shift in-charge at the Hot Rolling Mill.

Deployment and management of manpower for different areas in the mill.

Tracking the status and availability of mechanical spares for periodic replacement during maintenance.

Inspection of equipments, monitoring of various gauges at specific check points in the mill and reporting deviations to section in-charges.

Assistant Manager (Production and Quality Control), Industrial Packaging, Balmer Lawrie and Co. Ltd., Navi Mumbai (Jan 2016 – Oct 2016)

Responsibilities:

Design daily/weekly production schedules by co-ordinating with marketing, sales, supply chain and production departments.

Assist in the implementation of Operational Excellence initiative by M/s KPMG at the new plant at Navi Mumbai.

Establish comprehensive data capture and analysis systems for various production processes to identify bottlenecks and sources of resource-wastage.

Co-ordinate with stores and supply chain for regular availability of raw materials and in-process goods.

Design a quality framework for yield enhancement of raw materials and reduction of rejections and other wastage.

Ensuring regular conduction and data management of non-destructive/destructive tests, measurements as per BIS norms and updation of Integrated Management System.

Co-ordinating customer visits and other third party audits in the plant.

Supervise station wise entry of workflow data in the SAP system.

Programming and softwares

Programming languages: C, C++, GNU Octave / MATLAB, Python, R, Julia

Parallel programming: CUDA, MPI

Visualization: Paraview, Matplotlib, Gnuplot, VisIt, Povray

Tools and Specialized software: Git, Latex, ThermoCalc, Mathematica, Maple, Jekyll

Teaching assistanceships

MM745: Stengthening mechanisms in crystalline solids

MM220: Computation Lab

MM656: Simulation and Optimisation

MM217: Data Analysis and Interpretation

MOOC Course: Phase field modelling (National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning)

MOOC Course: Dealing with materials data: collection, analysis and interpretation (National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning)

Languages

English: Fluent

Malayalam: Mother tongue

Hindi: Fluent

Tamil: Intermediate

Contact

Designation: Postdoctoral fellow

Research group: Feugmo Research Group

Department: Chemistry

Institution: University of Waterloo, ON, CA

Email: avramasi-at-uwaterloo-dot-ca