Our Faculty
Dr. S. Balaguru
Senior Associate Professor & Dean
Cabin Number: AB204
Email: dean.smec@vitbhopal.ac.in, balaguru.s@vitbhopal.ac.in
He obtained his BE in Mechanical Engineering from Manonmanium Sundaranar University, M.Tech from IIT Madras and PhD from College of Engineering Guindy under Anna University. He carried out his postdoctoral research work at National University of Singapore. He works as Dean in-charge of School of Mechanical Engineering at VIT Bhopal. He has 28 years of experience in leading Engineering Institutions out of which he worked as Professor HoD for 11 years. In 2019, he was invited to Kocaeli University, Turkey, under the Mevlana Mobility Programme with a grant as an International faculty to handle a technical course. He solely authored a best-selling textbook on Dynamics of Machines under the Cengage Learning. He brought out an edited book on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering under Springer publications. In 2008, his proposal fetched a grant of Rs. 8 lakhs under the MODROBS Scheme. He established an International chapter known as Material Advantage Student Chapter at VIT Bhopal as Faculty Advisor. He has guided 3 PhD scholars and 30 M.Tech projects. He published more than 60 papers in reputed journals. He presented 30 papers in the International conferences held in India and abroad. He has 5 patents and several book chapters to his credit. He has been a reviewer for many reputable journals. He visited Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and Turkey for academic works. His research fields are cladding, composites and nuclear materials. He is a Fellow as well as CEng. of the Institution of Engineers. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is a life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).
Programme Chair
Dr. Rohit Sharma
Cabin Number: A320
Senior Assistant Professor and Programme Chair
Email: pc.bme@vitbhopal.ac.in, rohit.sharma@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Rohit Sharma is currently serving as Senior Assistant Professor and Programme Chair-Mechanical at VIT Bhopal University, India. He earned his Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Italy in Energy and Nuclear Science & Technology in 2017. His research focused on the near-field region of turbulent swirling jets in the combustion & propulsion laboratory. Notably, Dr. Sharma received an esteemed Erasmus Mundus fellowship sponsored by the European Commission in 2013 to pursue his Ph.D. Prior to his doctorate, Dr. Sharma received his M.Tech in Thermal Engineering from NIT Warangal in 2013 and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from LNCT Bhopal in 2010. Over the years, he has amassed extensive experience in the field of research and academia. For three years, he worked as a Senior Project Research Scientist at IIT Bombay. He also served as an Assistant Professor at NIT Jalandhar for some time and gained invaluable industrial experience as a Graduate Engineer Trainee at Vardhman Yarns for one year.
Dr. Sharma has an impressive record of 25 publications in esteemed journals and conferences and has been honored with best research paper and poster awards. As a core team member, he actively participated in the student solar ambassador workshop organized under the SoULS project at IIT Bombay, which achieved the Guinness World Record on 2nd October 2018 for lighting the most LED lights based on solar energy. He has contributed to other sponsored projects such as the Energy and Economic Growth (EEG) project in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA. Also, he worked on the TATA Research project in collaboration with Boston College, USA, under the SoULS, IIT Bombay umbrella. He has recently been awarded an International Travel Grant (2022) in the Young Scientist category and a Seminar/Symposia Grant (2023) by SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, serving as the Principal Investigator. He has traveled to numerous countries, including France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, to present his research at various international conferences. Dr. Sharma has successfully organised several international conferences and workshops as Organising Secretary and Convener. His diverse research interests encompass Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Optical Diagnostics, Flow Visualization, Internal Combustion Engines, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, Predictive Modelling, Rural Electrification, and Off-grid Solar Energy.
Faculty
Dr. Pushpdant Jain
Cabin Number: AB412
Senior Assistant Professor
Email: pushpdant.jain@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr Pushpdant Jain has more than 12+ years of experience including, in industries and academic institutions. Currently, he is working with VIT Bhopal University as a Senior Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering. Dr Jain holds PhD in Industrial Design from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (Odisha). He has published more than 30+ publications which includes SCI, SCOPUS journal articles, book chapters and conference publications. He has authored 02 books as an Editor. Dr Jain has published more than 16 patents/design registrations and granted with 13 design registrations. He has organized one international conference as an Organizing Secretary and the conference proceeding was published in Springer Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (SCOPUS indexed) in the year 2023. Dr. Jain is also an active reviewer of various reputed journals such as Scientific Reports (Nature Journal), Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (Springer Nature), BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders (Springer Nature), BioMed Research International (Hindawi Publications), Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express (IOP Publishing), Informatics in Medicine Unlocked (Elsevier) and Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering (Springer Nature) etc. He is an active member of the European Society of Bio-Mechanics (ESB), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), a life member of the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (SMIIIE) and Indian Society for Technical Education. In addition to this, he was awarded with Research Scholar of the Year in the year 2018 at NIT Rourkela for his PhD Work. His research interest includes New Product Development, Spinal Implant, Bio-Mechanics, Finite Element Analysis.
Dr. K Sripriyan
Assistant Professor
Email: sripriyan.k@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. K. Sripriyan is an Assistant Professor at VIT Bhopal University’s School of Mechanical Engineering. He has a Ph.D. in Welding Technology from Anna University in Chennai and a Master’s in Manufacturing Engineering from Alagappa Chettiar Government College of Engineering and Technology in Karaikudi. He possesses two Indian granted patents and has published 15 papers in peer-reviewed international and national journals, as well as 11 papers in international and national conferences. He is a life member of the Indian Society of Systems for Science and Engineering (ISSE) and a member of the Institution of Engineers (India).
Dr. Kumari Ambe Verma
Cabin Number: A410(AB404)
Assistant Professor
Email: kumariambeverma@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Kumari Ambe Verma is an accomplished researcher and academic with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar, Assam, India, and an M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Lovely Professional University (LPU), Punjab, India. Her doctoral research focused on enhancing combustion efficiency in scramjet engines through numerical simulations using ANSYS Fluent.
She has significant international research exposure, having worked as a Senior Researcher at GNU Jinju, South Korea, where she specialized in thermal management of electric motors using COMSOL Multiphysics. Proficient in advanced modeling tools like ANSYS Fluent, OpenFOAM, and COMSOL, Dr. Verma combines technical expertise with sustainable design principles and materials innovation.
Her work reflects a commitment to advancing thermal sciences and fostering engineering solutions with a focus on sustainability and cutting-edge technologies.
Dr. Shiv Manjaree Gopaliya
Assistant Professor
Email: shivmanjaree@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr Gopaliya has served at various academic and administrative positions at various academic Institutes for more than 12 years. She has served at The NorthCap University (Formerly ITM University), Gurugram (2008-2018) for close to a decade where apart from her teaching commitments, she has successfully completed Government and industry sponsored research projects both and has served as Audit Coordinator for various Accreditation bodies namely, NBA, NAAC, IQAC to name a few. Dr Gopaliya holds a PhD in Robotics Engineering and M Tech in Robotics and Automation from Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana. She is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from Government Engineering College, Jagdalpur, Chattisgarh. She is an active researcher in the area of application of Artificial Intelligence in Robotics. She is a life member of Aeronautical Society of India.
