Nilesh Prakash Gurao
(PhD, IISc. Bangalore)
Professor, Department of MSE
Email: npgurao@iitk.ac.in
Office: Western Labs 204A
Phone: +91 512 679 6688
Specialization:
Crystallographic Texture, Thermomechanical Processing and Mechanical Behaviour of Materials
Areas of Interest:
Length and time scale effects in plasticity, in-situ deformation studies, Micro-Laue diffraction using synchrotron, crystal plasticity simulations
Professional Experience
- Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur (Jul 2022 - Present)
- Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur (Jul 2018 - Jun 2022)
- Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur (Nov 2012 - Jun 2018)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada (Mar 2011 - Oct 2012)
- Research Associate, Materials Engineering, IISc, Bangalore, India (Aug 2010 - Feb 2011)
- Assistant Manager, Tata Motors, Pune, India (Jun 2005 - Jul 2005)
Recent Publications | 
- A high-throughput approach to decipher the dynamic deformation behaviour of metallic materials
AK Yadav, V Parameswaran, NP GuraoMaterials Science and Engineering: A, 149033, 2025
- Structural Performance and Failure Behavior of Direct Metal Laser Sintered Honeycomb-Structured Sample of Ti6Al4V
AK Yadav, NP GuraoJournal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 1-11, 2025
- Elucidating the influence of alloying elements on hydrogen embrittlement in steels through machine learning-aided property prediction
S Chandrakar, S Mahato, S Kose, P Gore, NP GuraoModelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 33 (6), 065005, 2025
- Effect of surface mechanical grinding treatment on the microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of commercially pure titanium
B Dhakal, SK Basantia, S Chandrakar, NP GuraoMaterialia, 102506, 2025
- Predicting primary slip systems in HCP metals: A combined geometrical and electronic approach
MF Akhtar, NP Gurao, S BhowmickMaterials Letters, 139019, 2025
Awards/Scholarships
- Teaching Excellence certificate for the course "Mechanical Behaviour of Materials" Laboratory at IIT Kanpur for 2018-19
- Teaching Excellence certificate for the course "Microscopy and Microanalysis of Materials" at IIT Kanpur for 2017-18 and 2018-19
- INSA Medal for Young Scientist 2015 INSA Medal for Young Scientist 2015
- INSA-DFG, Bi-lateral Exchange Fellowship, Dresden, Germany 2015
- Young Metallurgist of the Year 2015