1. Fabrication technologies (Micro/Nano-fabrication, Laser Machining and Surface Engineering) for MEMS, Micro-fluidics, Bio-fluidics, Bio-devices/bio-medical Devices and Health Care.

1. (1) Bio-flows, Bio-fluidics, Lab-on-Chip and Bio-devices

2. (2) Bio-medical Devices and Health Care

3. (3) MEMS, Bio-MEMS, C-MEMS and Micro/Nano-fluidics

4. (4) Micro/Nano-fabrication and Advanced Manufacturing

5. (5) Laser Machining and Surface Engineering

1. I worked as Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, California, USA.

2. I got the prestigious SERB-SIRE fellowship 2022-2023 to visit Stanford University, California, USA for 6 months.

3. My PhD thesis was nominated for best thesis award by the foreign and Indian examiner.

4. I qualified for Indian Engineering Services in 2010.

5. I secured 98.20 Percentile in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2010).

6. I was selected in India-Sri Lanka youth exchange program 2017, organized by the Ministry of youth affairs and sports, Government of India.

7. I got 9.55/10 in students feed back at IIITDM Kancheepuram for July-Dec 2019.

8. I was awarded DST-International Travel Fellowship in 2018 to visit Hawaii, USA.

9. I visited Dubrovnik, Croatia (June 10-13, 2018) in the ASME 2018 15th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels (ICNMM2018).

10. I visited Hawaii, USA (30 July - 3 Aug 2017) in the ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting (FEDSM2017).

11. I visited Biopolis, Singapore (Jan 3-6, 2016) in the ASME 2016 5th Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference (MNHMT2016).

Teaching

1. Working as Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, California, USA from October 2022 to present.

2. Working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIITDM Kancheepuram, Chennai from 2019 to present.

3. Worked as Assistant Professor (TEQIP Faculty, Sponsored by MHRD and World Bank) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, THDC-Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology, New Tehri, Uttarakhand (2018) for a semester.

Research

1. Working as Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, California, USA from October 2022 to present. I am working on the project titled Theoretical and Experimental Quantification of Uncertainty in CRISPR Diagnostics Systems.

2. Worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur (2018 to 2019): I worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow with Prof. Anindya Chatterjee and Dr. Niraj Sinha in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. I am working on the (a) Hysteresis modelling of bio-sensors and (b) Synthesis of nano-composites and its applications. I wish to develop a research activity in the not yet mature field of identification and control of hysteresis with application to biosensors. Simultaneously I am working on the synthesis of BN and BCN nano-particles/sheets. These particles have applications as nano-composites and micro-systems for energy and packaging industries.

3. Worked as Early Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi (2018): I worked toward extension of my PhD work as Early PDF. I worked in the field of Microfluidics and Laser texturing. I analyzed the effect of texturing on the fluid flow behavior of fluids in the textured micro-channels. I also studied the flow anisotropy in the micro-channels due to textured surfaces.

4. Worked as a project associate at Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical System, Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc, Bangalore) (2012-2013): I was involved in a project sponsored by Robert Bosch, at the M2D2 lab, Mechanical Engineering Department, IISc Bangalore. The project required a real time cyber surgery and haptic visualization. I was doing the modeling and fabrication of endoscopic simulator (with the Ph.D. student) using compliant mechanisms. The project involved using compliant mechanisms because of suitability in small size with easy fabrication and no parts to assemble. I was doing the design, simulation, fabrication, and testing of the compliant mechanism. A prototype was fabricated using sensors, manipulators, and compliant mechanisms. Significant teamwork was required to visualize and model the body parts. I also contributed toward the development of a haptic interface between the kit and operator. The Ph.D. students helped me in establishing the electronic and hardware for the device.

5. Worked as a research associate at Micro-fabrication Lab, Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) (2012): I worked in the field of MEMS and Microfluidics at IIT Kanpur. We fabricated and integrated various micro devices. We have made a peristaltic pump operated by the micro valves. A solenoid valve in PDMS for micro fluid control was fabricated in-house. My contribution to this project was to analyze and fabricate the assembly. I wrote a program in MATLAB for automated image analysis of solenoid valve. The capability of code is in finding the eccentricity of the valve from the central axis. The program takes a picture of the valve from the web cam and estimates the defects, eccentricity, and deflection in the micro valve. We characterized various solenoid valve with the MATLAB code to get an optimized and error free solenoid valve.

Industry

1. Central Workshop, Northern Coalfields Limited, Singrauli (M.P.): Learn about CNC and conventional machine, various machining processes, various welding processes, overhauling and assembly of 4/6/8/10/12/16 cylinder engines, overhauling and assembly of transmission.

1. Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

1. Delivered a talk on Laser Surface modification for Anti-bacterial Applications in faculty development programme (FDP) on Multiomics and Traditional Approaches To Combat Covid-19/virus out break at B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Vandalur, Chennai in association with Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology, Chennai (May 21-June 03, 2020).

2. Delivered a technical webinar on laser Modified Surfaces and its Applications at Sathyabama Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai (May 20, 2020).

3. Delivered a talk on Fluid flow in patterned micro channels in the Six days Faculty Development Program on Advances in Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer- AFFHT (2022) at Department of Mechanical Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, during Jan 03-08, 2022.

4. Delivered an invited talk on Micro-Textured Surfaces for Biomedical Devices in Indo-USA International Confrence on Applications of Nanotechnology in Biology, Biotechnology and Biopharmaceutics (ICNB3) at B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Vandalur, Chennai (August 11-12, 2022) in association with University of Missouri, USA.

5. Collaborating with Stanford University, California, USA on the project titled Theoretical and Experimental Quantification of Uncertainty in CRISPR Diagnostics Systems.

6. Collaborating TU Delft, Netherland on the project titled Femtosecond laser machining for realization of innovative nanostructures.

7. Collaborating UCI, California USA on the project titled Fabrication of Microfluidics and Bio-devices.

8. Coordinated a workshop on Orthopaedic devices for current and future needs organized by CBME, IIT Delhi and AIIMS (Oct 31-Nov 2, 2014).

9. Coordinated a workshop on Lasers: Technology & Application in Engineering and Medicine organized by Department of Physics & Centre of Biomedical Engineering at IIT Delhi (Sept 11-13, 2015).

10. Coordinated a workshop on Human Values and Professional Ethics organised by GBTU Lucknow at IIT Kanpur from July 9-16, 2011.

11. Chair for media and recording and Confrence Admin in the 4th IEEE CICT2020 confrence at IIITDM Kancheepuram, Chennai (Dec 3-5, 2020).

12. Faculty incharge for M.Tech and PhD research laboratory at IIITDM Kancheepuram, Chennai (2020-2021).

13. Class cordinator of B.Tech 2nd year students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at THDC-Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology, New Tehri, Uttarakhand (October to December 2018).

14. Class Committee Chairman for B.Tech. final year students (2018 Batch) IIITDM Kanchipuram, Chennai in academic year 2020-21.

15. Chairman M.Tech. Project Review Committee for M.Tech. 2020 batch (Mechanical and Smart manufacturing) at IIITDM Kancheepuram, Chennai.

16. Chairman Summer Project Review Committee for M.Tech. 2020 batch (Mechanical and Smart manufacturing) at IIITDM Kancheepuram, Chennai.

17. Reviewer in ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Journal of Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Journal of Physics of Fluids, and many more.

1. Micro-System Fabrication

2. Lasers and Optics in Manufacturing

3. Mechanical Design of Electronic Systems

4. Surface Modification Technologies

5. Advanced Numerical Methods

6. Advanced Numerical Methods Practice

7. Manufacturing Processes-2

8. Manufacturing Processes Practice-2

9. Engineering Graphics

10. Design and Manufacturing lab.

11. Engineering Skills Practices

12. Mechanical Vibrations

13. Thermo-fluids Machineries

1. Book: Avinash Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Abhishek Kumar (Editors), Laser Based Green Technologies for Sustainable Manufacturing (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Publishing, USA) (ISBN: 9781032392738).

2. Book: Ashwani Kumar, Yatika Gori, Avinash Kumar, Chandan Swaroop Meena, Nitesh Dutt (Editors), Advanced Materials for Biomedical Application (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Publishing, USA) (ISBN: 9781032356068, DOI: http://doi.org/10.1201/9781003344810).

3. Chapter: Avinash Kumar, Udwesh Panda, Microfluidics based devices and their role on point-of-care testing, Biosensor Based Advanced Cancer Diagnostics (2020), (ISBN: 599105, Elsevier Publication, Amsterdam, The Netherlands). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823424-2.00011-9

4. Chapter: Avinash Kumar, Udwesh Panda, Vinay Kumar Patel, Rishi Kant, Laser-Assisted Fabrication of Polymer by Pushing Down the Limit of Resolution, Trends in Fabrication of Polymers and Polymer Composites (2021), (AIP Publishing, USA). https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735423916_003

5. Chapter: Sanjeev Kumar, Rajesh Kumar Verma, Avinash Kumar, Vinay Kumar Patel, Importance of Chemical Treatments of Natural Fibers in Fabrication of High-Performance Natural Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites, Trends in Fabrication of Polymers and Polymer Composites (2021), (AIP Publishing, USA). https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735423916_010

6. Chapter: Avinash Kumar, S. Nisar Basha, Arpana Parihar, Udwesh Panda, Clinically Available/Under Trial Drugs and Vaccines for Treatment of SARS-COV-2, Computational approaches for novel therapeutic and diagnostic designing to mitigate SARS-CoV2 infection (2021), (Elsevier Publication, Amsterdam, The Netherlands). http://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91172-6.00005-4

7. Chapter: Anka Datta, Avinash Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Abhishek Kumar, Varun Pratap Singh, Advanced Material in Biological Implants and Surgical Tools, Advanced Materials for Biomedical Applications (2022), (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, USA). http://doi.org/10.1201/9781003344810-2

8. Chapter: Avinash Kumar, Anka Datta, Ashwani Kumar, Abhishek Kumar, Recent advancement and Future Trends in Next generation Materials for Biomedical application, Advanced Materials for Biomedical Applications (2022), (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, USA). http://doi.org/10.1201/9781003344810-1

9. Chapter: Ashwani Kumar, Arun Kumar Singh Gangwar, Avinash Kumar, Chandan Swaroop Meena, Varun Meena, Varun Pratap Singh, Nitesh Dutt, Arbind Prasad and Yatika Gori, Biomedical study offemur bone fracture andhealing, Advanced Materials for Biomedical Applications (2022), (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, USA). http://doi.org/10.1201/9781003344810-14

1. Aparna Parihar, Avinash Kumar, Udwesh Panda, Rukhsar Khan, Dipesh Singh Parihar and Raju Khan “Cryopreservation: A Comprehensive Overview, Challenges, and Future Perspectives”, Advanced Biology (2023), 2200285, https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202200285 [Q2]

2. Avinash Kumar, Anuj Kumar Sharma, and Jitendra Kumar Katiyar, "State-of-the-Art in Sustainable Machining of Different Materials Using Nano Minimum Quality Lubrication (NMQL)", Lubricants (2023), 11,2, 64, https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants11020064 [Q1]

3. Yathavan Subramanian, J. Gajendiran, R. Veena, Abul Kalam Azad, V. C. Bharath Sabarish, S. A. Muhammed Ali, Avinash Kumar & Ramesh Kumar Gubendiran, “Structural, Photoabsorption and Photocatalytic Characteristics of BiFeO3-WO3 Nanocomposites: An Attempt to Validate the Experimental Data Through SVM-Based Artificial Intelligence (AI)”, J. Electron. Mater. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-022-10188-7 [Q2]

4. Avinash Kumar, Arpana Parihar, Udwesh Panda, and Dipesh Singh Parihar, “Microfluidics-Based Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) Devices in Dealing with Waves of COVID-19 Pandemic: The Emerging Solution”, ACS Appl. Bio Mater, (2022), 5, 5, 2046-2068, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsabm.1c01320 [Q1]

5. Avinash Kumar, Anuj Kumar Shrama, TVK Gupta and Jitendra Kumar Katiyar, “Influence of hexagonal boron nitride additive nanocutting fluid on the machining of AA6061-T6 alloy using minimum quality lubrication”, Proc IMechE Part E: J Process Mechanical Engineering (2022), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09544089221110980 [Q2]

6. A. Parihar, V. Pandita, A. Kumar, et al., “3D Printing: Advancement in Biogenerative Engineering to Combat Shortage of Organs and Bioapplicable Materials”, Regen. Eng. Transl. Med. (Published in 2021), 8, 173–199 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40883-021-00219-w [Q2]

7. Yathavan Subramanian , Veena R , Muhammed Ali S.A., Avinash Kumar, et al., "Artificial Intelligence Technique Based Performance Estimation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells", Materialstoday (Elsevier), (2021), ISSN 2214-7853, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.06.412

8. Manjinder Singh, Avinash Kumar, Abdul Rahman, "Capillary as a liquid diode", Phys. Rev. Fluids (2020), 5(10), 102101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.102101 [Q1]

9. Vinod Parmar, Avinash Kumar, G. Vijaya Prakash, Subhra Datta and Dinesh Kalyanasundaram, "Investigation, modelling and validation of material sepration mechanism during fiber laser machining of medical grade titanium alloy Ti6Al4V and stainless steel SS316L”, Mechanics of Materials (2019), 137, 103125. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2019.103125 [Q1]

10. Vinod Parmar, Avinash Kumar, Manimuthu Mani Sankar, Subhra Datta, G. Vijaya Prakash, Sujata Mohanty and Dinesh Kalyanasundaram, "Oxidation facilitated antimicrobial ability of laser micro-textured titanium alloy against gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus for biomedical applications”, Journal of Laser Applications (2018), 30, 032001. http://doi.org/10.2351/1.5039860 [Q2]

11. Avinash Kumar, Subhra Datta, and Dinesh Kalyanasundaram, “Liquid slippage in confined flows: Effect of periodic micropatterns of arbitrary pitch and amplitude”, Journal of Heat transfer (2017), 140(1):012403-012403-7. http://doi.org/10.1115/1.4037363 [Q1]

12. Avinash Kumar, Subhra Datta, and Dinesh Kalyanasundaram, “Permeability and effective slip in confined flows transverse to wall slippage patterns”, Physics of Fluids (2016), 28(8):082002. http://doi.org/10.1063/1.4959184 [Q1]

13. Rajiv Kumar Singh, Avinash Kumar, Rishi Kant, Ankur Gupta, E Suresh, Shantanu Bhattacharya, "Design and fabrication of 3-dimensional helical structure of polydimethylsiloxane for flow control application", Microsystems Technologies (2014), 20 (1), 101-111. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-013-1738-7 [Q2]

14. Avinash Kumar, Ankur Gupta, Rishi Kant, Syed Nadeem Akhtar, Nachiketa Tiwari, Janakrajan Ramkumar, Shantanu Bhattacharya, “Optimization of LASER Machining process for the preparation of photo masks and its application to Micro-systems fabrication”, Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3) (2013), 12 (4), 041203-041203. http://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMM.12.4.041203 [Q2]

1. Avinash Kumar, Omnish Kumar, “Health Monitoring System using Wrist Pulse Detection”, North-East Research Conclave 2022 (IIT Guwahati).

2. Avinash Kumar, Anka Datta, “Current Energy Challenges in India and Proposed Novel Low Cost, Flexible, Thin and Transparent Solar Cell Solutions”, North-East Research Conclave 2022 (IIT Guwahati).

3. Yathavan Subramanian , Veena R , Muhammed Ali S.A., Avinash Kumar*, et al., "Artificial Intelligence Technique Based Performance Estimation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells", International Conference on Nanoelectronics, Nanophotonics, Nanomaterials, Nanobioscience & Nanotechnology, Mangalam college of Engineering, Kottayam, Kerala (29-30 April, 2021).

4. Anitha Dhanasekaran, Veena R , Yathavan Subramanian, Avinash Kumar, "Deformation Analysis for BFO Thin Films with Different Thickness by Finite Element Method", ASEAN International Conference on Energy and Environment, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, (15-16 September, 2021).

5. Avinash Kumar, Subhra Datta, and Dinesh Kalyanasundaram, " Design, optimization and stability of textures of contacting surfaces in micro-flows", ASTFE 5th International Conference on Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC2020), New Orleans, LA, USA (April 5-8, 2020).

6. Avinash Kumar, Subhra Datta, and Dinesh Kalyanasundaram, "Reduction of hydraulic friction in confined flows by laser texturing: Experiments and theoretical validation", ASME 2018 15th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels (ICNMM2018), Dubrovnik, Croatia (June 10-13, 2018).

7. Avinash Kumar, Subhra Datta and Dinesh Kalyanasundaram, "Confinement effects on effective slip of patterned surfaces", ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting (FEDSM2017), Hawaii, USA (30 July - 3 Aug 2017).

8. Avinash Kumar, Subhra Datta and Dinesh Kalyanasundaram, "Liquid slippage in con fined flows: effect of periodic micropatterns of arbitrary pitch and amplitude", proceedings of ASME 2016 5th Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference (MNHMT2016), Biopolis, Singapore (Jan 3-6, 2016).

9. Shanthanu Chakravarthy, Avinash Kumar, Ramu G and Ananthasuresh G.K, "Haptic Display for an Endoscopic Simulator Using an Integrated Ring-actuator", Proceedings of 1st International & 16th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms (iNaCoMM 2013), IIT Roorkee (December 18 to December 20, 2013).

10. Avinash Kumar, Rishi Kant, Ankur Gupta, Shantanu Bhattacharya, "Fabrication and parameter optimization of co2 laser machined photo mask for photolithography process", Proceedings of the International Conference on Innovations in Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, India, (Dec 5-7, 2012) (IIITDM Jabalpur-2012, InnDeM-5015).