Biography and academic profile
Dr. Sudesna Roy, an accomplished academic with over 15 years of post-Ph.D. experience, is currently associated with the School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University. She holds a Ph.D. from Northeastern University, Boston, and completed post-doctoral research at Boston University. Her academic background includes a B.Tech in Ceramic Engineering from NIT Rourkela and an M.Tech in Metallurgy from IIT Kharagpur. She received the DST Women Scientist Award (2015) and a DST-SERB research grant (2017), and presently leads the DST-FIST Level 1 project at KIIT. Dr. Roy has published widely in reputed journals and conferences. Her research interests include coatings, thin film deposition, cold and thermal spraying, optical materials, and alloy solidification modeling, with extensive expertise in magnetron sputtering and rare earth oxides.
