Prof. Krishna NagaSai Jonnalagadda is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. His research interests are in the areas of experimental mechanics, fracture mechanics and plasticity. He has published several papers, which includes two best paper awards and the prestigious M. Hetenyi award from Society for Experimental Mechanics. Currently, he is on the editorial board of Experimental Mechanics Journal. He has also been a reviewer for several journals in the area of experimental solid mechanics and mechanical behavior of materials. He has guided several Ph.D. and Master’s theses, and currently leads a group of research students on dynamic deformation and in situ mechanics of materials. Prof. Alankar is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. He is an expert on crystal plasticity, multiscale computational mechanics of crystalline materials. His current research interests span application of AL and ML for scientific problems. He has co-authored several international research publications and technical reports. Prof. Alankar serves on the editorial board of Materials Theory (Springer Nature) and is an active reviewer for several reputed journals in the broad area of mechanics of materials. He leads the ICME and Materials Genome (IMaGen) Group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering IIT Bombay where he is mentoring several Ph.D., masters and undergraduate students.Prof. Nagamani Jaya Balila is an Associate Professor at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. She completed her Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and her post-doctoral research at the Department of Structure and Nano-/Micro-mechanics of Materials, Max Planck Institut für Eisenforschung, Duesseldorf. Her current areas of research are in fracture mechanics at multiple length scales and design of materials with improved damage tolerance. She has published more than 22 journal articles and 3 reviews in the field of microscale deformation and fracture behavior of materials. She is a reviewer of several international journals in the field of mechanics and materials engineering. She is currently leading a group of 5 Ph.D. students, 3 Master’s students, 2 Bachelor’s students while having guided more than 8 Master’s students and 6 Bachelor’s students in their thesis.Prof. Tanmay Kishore Bhandakkar is an Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. His area of interest is mathematical modelling of contact, fracture and elasticity. He has more than 20 international publications and is a regular reviewer of several journals dedicated to solid mechanics. He has guided 4 Ph.D. students and over 40 Master’sstudent towards their thesis.
