Biography and academic profile
Dr. Amlana Panda, Ph.D., is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Panda has over 19 years of academic teaching and research experience, focusing on Manufacturing, Metal Cutting, and Sustainable Machining. Dr. Amlan, who has a Ph.D. from KIIT and is dedicated to student-centred, multidisciplinary education, provides extensive knowledge in sustainable machining. His research publications which comprise 98 journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters, had over 1250 citations/H index 19 and one textbook named "Sustainable Hard Machining: Implementation and Assessment" CRC Press, Taylor & Francis. Dr. Panda is well-known for his research on sustainable high-speed machining, cooling lubrication in machining, and cutting tool wear analysis in dry, MQL, and NMQL machining processes of difficult-to-cut materials. To date, he has supervised or co-supervised the ongoing/completion of three PhD students and three M.Tech. projects. Dr. Panda has recently developed a highly integrative, cross-disciplinary technique that encompasses materials and manufacturing innovation to build breakthrough hybrid metal matrix composite fabrication and machinability analysis. He co-authored the books 'Basic Manufacturing Process' and 'Introduction to Physical Metallurgy and Engineering Materials' for India Tech Publishing. He is a lifetime member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).
