Ashok Kamaraj

Dr. Ashok Kamaraj is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering at the IIT Hyderabad with 14+ years of industrial research experience. Before joining IITH, he was a Senior Scientist at CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur. He obtained a B.E., in Metallurgical Engineering from the Government College of Engineering, Salem, in March 2011. From Sep 2012 - Aug 2015, he held the Trainee Scientist fellowship to pursue an M.Tech., in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering. He continued his Doctoral Research in Process Metallurgy (Steelmaking) at CSIR-NML and obtained a doctoral degree from AcSIR in February 2020. The overarching theme of his research work is the physical simulation of metallurgical processes, metal recycling, waste utilization, and the life cycle and sustainability analysis of metallurgical processes. He also has a keen research interest in the deployment of machine learning and artificial intelligence towards the design of efficient waste management, metal recycling, and metallurgical processes. To his credit, he has published over 35 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, 14 articles in conference proceedings, one software copyright, and one design patent. He was conferred the Young Metallurgist (metal science) award by the Steel Ministry (GOI) in April 2022, the Prof. Shilowbadra Banerjee Award (for the best In-house project) by CSIR National Metallurgical Laboratory in Nov 2022, and the M. S. Khan Memorial Award by the IIM Jamshedpur chapter in Feb 2020. He is presently one of the editors of Transactions of IIM and IIM Metals News. His hobbies are listening to music and gardening.