About Pankaj Biswas

Prof. Pankaj Biswas, am a Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati. I am working in the area of welding technology and forming by line heating for the past 16 years. My areas of research are on computational weld mechanics, similar and dissimilar friction stir welding, friction stir welding of steel, hybrid welding technology, Finite Element analysis of weld induced distortion and residual stresses, Analysis of large welding structure, forming by line heating and modeling of welding processes using soft computing techniques. I guided 01 PDF, 7 PhD scholars in the area of welding. Currently I am guiding 01 PDF and 7 PhD students in the welding and line heating areas. I already published about 77 journal articles, 73 conference proceedings, 23 book chapters and 3 patents. I worked in ten sponsored / consultancy projects. I got IEI Young Engineers Award 2013- 2014’ in Mechanical Engineering discipline.