Biography and academic profile
Dr Ashok Kumar Sahoo, Chairperson & Director, Sponsored Project (RDI), KIIT School of Mechanical Engineering , KIIT Deemed to be University has extensive teaching, research and administrative experience of 24 years. He was the former Dean and Director of School of Mechanical Engineering from 2014-2020. Dr Sahoo has published more than 150 research articles (more than 80 articles indexed in Web of Science) in peer reviewed Journals of International repute and Conferences with h-index 20 (Scopus), h-index 22 (Google Scholar), i10-index 35 (Google Scholar), Scopus research Citations of 1250+ and 1650+ Google Scholar Citations. Three of his research papers have been cited as Science Direct Top 25 Hottest Articles, Elsevier. He has successfully completed four sponsored research projects from DST, SERB and RPS, AICTE in areas of sustainable machining, composites fabrication & machinability, spray impingement cooling, novel minimum quantity lubrication & cooling strategies for cleaner machining and current a RPS project of AICTE on nano fluid assisted multi-nozzle MQL machining is continuing. Dr Sahoo has filed Eight Patent out of which two patents have been published as national and International patent (PCT) by WIPO. Dr Sahoo is actively engaged in research in the area of Sustainable Machining & Machinability of Advanced materials, Hard machining, MQL machining & Nanofluid assisted machining, High speed hard machining, Spray impingement cooling, Composite development and characterization, Tool condition monitoring, Surface characterization and surface integrity, Non conventional machining etc with the development of Machining research Lab and Production research Lab in the School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University. He has attended many national and international conferences, presented papers as keynote speaker, chaired the technical sessions and organized conferences/seminars as chairman in school of Mechanical Engineering. He has supervised already 22 M.Tech & 08 PhD Thesis. He was the recipient of “Best Staff Award” for outstanding contributions in KIIT University, 2010 and “Highly Cited Research Award” from Science Direct in recognition of the contribution to the quality of the journal, Elsevier, Outstanding Reviewer award, and letter of appreciation of reviewing from Elsevier Journals. Dr Sahoo has been the reviewer board member with several Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis and SAGE journals. He was the chairman of the ICAMME-2019, ICAMPD-2019, Thermofluid-2020 international conference held in KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. Dr Sahoo is the fellow member of Institution of Engineers (India), life member of IET (UK), ISTE, Indian Science Congress. He has rich academic administrative experience as FIC (R&D), FIC (Time Table), FIC (Examination), Coordinator (M.Tech programme), Programme Head & Associate Dean (2012-14), Dean (2014-2019), Director of School of Mechanical Engineering (2019-20) and presently continuing as Director, R&D (Technology), KIIT Deemed to be University. He was the President of AICTE-MHRD Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) of MoE Innovation cell for KIIT Deemed to be University from 2018-20 and currently Convener of AICTE-National Innovation & Start up Policy (NISP), KIIT Deemed to be University. He is the member of Academic council, KIIT University and also member of Board of Studies of school of Mechanical Engineering. He is the Executive Editor of KIIT R&D Newsletter of KIIT Deemed University and member of University level research committee and Ethical committee. He is actively involved sincerely in volunteer service and leadership at professional, community and university levels.
