Dr. Muthukumar Palanisamy is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. He received PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras during 2005. He received DAAD research fellowships during September–December 2000, June–July 2008, and June–July 2010. He is the recipient of IEI Young Engineer Award - 2010 in Mechanical Engineering from Institute of Engineers (India). He received Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy Fellowship (BASE Fellowship) from Indo - U.S. Science and Technology Forum (USIEF), Jan 2014 and also received Er. M.P. Baya National Award 2015 by the Institution of Engineers (India), Udaipur. He served as visiting Professor in many Universities in the USA and Germany and also having research collaborations with over 20 International Universities. He has published over 250 research articles in various International Journals and conference proceedings. He is having seven national patents for his credit. Hehas supervised 15 PhD and 45 M.Tech student’s theses. He has successfully completed 5 sponsored research projects worth of 192 lakhs and five consultancy projects worth of 35 lakhs. Currently he is handling seven research projects worth of 760 lakhs. His area of research includes hydrogen energy storage, metal hydride based thermal machines, coupled heat and mass transfer in porous medium, porous medium combustion, sorption heating and cooling systems, etc.
Dr. Velraj Ramalingam is a Professor, Institute for Energy Studies, and specialized in Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Energy Storage. As a part of his doctoral work he carried out his research in Solar institute, Juelich, Germany, for a period of 20 months (1995–1997) under DAAD Fellowship by Germany. He has 30 years of teaching experience, and held additional responsibilities as Deputy Director, Centre for Affiliation of Institutions, for 6 years from 2004 to 2010; Director, AU – FRG CAD/CAM for 3 years from 2010 to 2013; and Director, Institute for Energy Studies for 5 years from 2013 to 2018. He has to his credit, 33 consultancy projects as principal coordinator, and 15 sponsored research projects as Principal Investigator which includes collaborative projects with Germany and UK. Under his Guidance 40 candidates have completed and 12 scholars are pursuing their Ph.D. research. He has published over 175 research papers in international journals of repute. His H - Index is 41 as per Google scholar citations. He has received Tamil Nadu Scientist Award – 2014 by TANSA in the year 2017, Active consultant award in the year 2011, Best innovation award in 2013 by Anna University, and Achiever Award by Appadurai Chair for contribution to TANGEDCO, Tamil Nadu in the year 2017. He is an expert member in various international and national forums in his field of research, reviewer for several international journals of repute, and member of governing council/academic council/boardof studies for various universities and autonomous institutions.
Dr. Murugan Sivalingam is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. He obtained his master and PhD degree from Anna University, Chennai. His areas of research are in energy/renewable energy, waste management, refrigeration and air conditioning. He has 25 years of teaching experience. He was also a visiting researcher at Cranfield University, the UK. He has carried out his postdoctoral research work at VSB Technical University, Ostrava, The Czech Republic, in 2014–15. He was a Principal Investigator for two major sponsored research projects sponsored by the Government of India, and a sponsored research project funded by the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. He has published more than 75 research articles in reputed peer-reviewed international journals scoring his h-index 30 in google scholar citations. He has guided 8 PhD research scholars and 25 postgraduate and more than 50 undergraduate engineering students.
