Biography and academic profile
Dr. Ram Kumar Kesharwani currently works as an Assistant Professor (II) at the School of Mechanical Engineering of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (Deemed to be University) Bhubaneswar – 751024, India. Before this, he has also worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center of Sabanci University Istanbul, Turkey. His research area broadly involves friction stir welding, formability testing techniques and multiscale modelling of metal plasticity. He earned a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India; and a Master of Technology in Production Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. He holds graduation in Mechanical Engineering.



