Praveen Sathiyamoorthi's Research Group

Dr. Praveen Sathiyamoorthi | பிரவீன் சத்தியமூர்த்தி

Assistant Professor, Metallurgical Engineering Department, IIT BHU, Varanasi.

Research areas:

Materials: Concentrated alloys

Fabrication & processing: Severe plastic deformation; Additive manufacturing; Powder metallurgy.

Properties: Plastic deformation behavior - Tensile (room temperature & cryogenic) & Superplasticity.

Target: High-performance alloys for critical applications.

Email ID: praveen.met@iitbhu.ac.in;
Tel no: 0542 716 5701

Publications: 51; Book chapter: 2 ; H-index: 37

Conference presentations (presenting author): 15; invited talks: 6

Education

Master of Science (MS) & Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) [Dual Degree]: July. 2009 – July. 2016

Department: Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Institute: Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Advisor: Prof. Ravi Sankar Kottada

CGPA: 8.36/10

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E): Aug. 2005 – Apr. 2009

Department: Metallurgical Engineering

College: Government College of Engineering, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India

Marks: 78.7 %; First Class with distinction

Higher Secondary Examination (XII): April. 2004 – Mar. 2005

School: Vani Vidhyalaya Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Marks: 92.4 %

Secondary School Examination (X): April. 2002 – Mar. 2003

School: Saraswathi Vidhyalaya Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Gudiyatham, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Marks: 88.2 %

Work experiences

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India

Assistant Professor: March 2022 - Present

Department: Metallurgical Engineering

Pohang University of Science & Technology, South Korea

Research Associate Professor: Sep 2021 – Feb 2022

Research Assistant Professor: Sep 2019 – Sep 2021

Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Feb 2017 - Sep 2019

Department: Materials Science & Engineering

Host: Prof. Hyoung Seop Kim

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Senior Project Officer: Oct 2016 – Dec 2016

Department: Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Advisor: Prof. Ravi Sankar Kottada

Awards and honors

Editorial Leadership:
- Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (2025–Present).
- Editorial Committee Member for Metals and Materials International (2019–Present).
Journal Awards:
- Best Article award from Advanced Engineering Materials, Wiley (2018).
- Topmost Cited Article award from Advanced Engineering Materials, Wiley (2018-2019).
Research Excellence:
- Institute Research Award, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2015).
Presentation Awards:
- Third Prize, Oral Presentation: National Metallurgist Day and Annual Technical Meeting (2015).
- Third Prize, Oral Presentation: National Metallurgist Day and Annual Technical Meeting (2013).
- Best Poster Presentation: National Conference on Advances in Naval Materials (2013).
Travel & Endowment Grants:
- TMS travel grant (2014).
- IIM Swarna Jayanti endowment fund (2014).

Fellowships

POSTECH Initiative for Fostering Unicorn of Research and Innovation (PIURI) Sep 2020 – Feb 2022

Funding Agency: Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea

Research Title: Deformation behavior and microstructural stability of nanocrystalline high entropy alloys

Research Host: Prof. Hyoung Seop Kim

Korea Research Fellowship (KRF) Program/Brain Pool (BP) Program April 2017 – Dec 2021

Funding Agency: National Research Foundation, South Korea

Research Title: Experimental investigations on microstructural and deformation mechanisms of high entropy alloys

Research Host: Prof. Hyoung Seop Kim

Half-Time Research Assistantship (HTRA) July 2009 – July 2016

Funding Agency: Ministry of Human Resource Development, India

Research Title: Phase evolution, thermal stability, and high temperature compressive mechanical behavior of CoCrFeNi high entropy alloy

Research Host: Prof. Ravi Sankar Kottada

Summer Undergraduate Mentorship in Mechanical Engineering Research (SUMMER) May 2008 – July 2008

Funding Agency: Indian Institute of Science, India

Research Title: Friction stir processing

Research Host: Prof. Satish V Kailas

Professional service

Editorial committee member in Metals and Materials International, Springer (since 2019)
Editorial board member in Scientific Reports, Springer Nature (Since Jan 2025)
Associate Editor in Frontiers in Metals and Alloys Journal for the specialty section of Mechanical Properties of Materials
Guest Editor
- Additive Manufacturing of Metallic Materials: Characterization, Properties, and Modelling, Journal: Metals.
- High entropy alloy design concept enabled emerging novel materials with enhanced mechanical properties, Journal: Frontiers in Materials
Invited reviewer of Additive Manufacturing, International Journal of Plasticity, Materials Research Letters, Materials Science and Engineering A, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Materials & Design, Materials Characterization, Metals and Materials International, Intermetallics, Materials Letters, Advanced Engineering Materials, JOM: The Journal of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society, Materials Today Communications, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals.

Book chapter

Praveen Sathiyamoorthi and Niraj Mohan Chawake. How Does Powder Metallurgy Facilitate the Preparation of Intermetallics and High-Entropy Alloys? Powder Metallurgy and Additive Manufacturing: Fundamentals and Advancements, Pages 191-206. Editor(s): Shashanka Rajendrachari and Debasis Chaira, ASM International, 2024, ISBN electronic: 978-1-62708-479-6.
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi and Hyoung Seop Kim, Nanocrystalline high entropy alloys: processing and properties, Volume 2, Encyclopedia of Materials: Metals and Alloys, Pages 372-380, Editor(s): Goro Miyamoto and Michael C. Gao, Elsevier, 2022, ISBN: 9780128197264.

Invited talks

Microstructure evolution and deformation mechanisms in Fe-based medium–entropy alloys, Symposium of Deformation and Failures in Metals, IIT Madras, May 15-16, 2025.[National].
Additive manufacturing of advanced materials, Hands-on training workshop on metal additive manufacturing technologies, IIT BHU, June 24-30, 2023. [National].
Compositionally complex alloys and potential applications in extreme environments, R&D, Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, June 29, 2022. [Online].
Nhung Thi-Cam Nguyen, Peyman Asghari-Rad, Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, and Hyoung Seop Kim. Superplastic behavior of multi-principal element alloys, High entropy alloy symposium– KIM Spring Meeting, April 28-30, 2021. [National].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, Peyman Asghari-Rad, Jeong Min Park, Jongun Moon, Jae Wung Bae, and Hyoung Seop Kim. Superior mechanical properties of CoCrNi medium entropy alloy processed by high-pressure torsion followed by annealing, International Conference on High Entropy Materials, Jeju, South Korea, Dec 9-12, 2018. [International].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, Jae Wung Bae, Jeong Min Park, Peyman Asghari-Rad, and Hyoung Seop Kim. Ultra-high strength CoCrNi nanocrystalline equiatomic alloy processed by high-pressure torsion, High entropy alloy symposium– KIM Spring Meeting, Jeju, South Korea, April 25-27, 2018. [National].

Publication list

Conference presentations

Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, Nhung Thi-Cam Nguyen , Peyman Asghari-Rad , Hyoung Seop Kim. Superplastic behaviour of high-pressure torsion processed high entropy alloys, 8th International Conference on Nanostructured Materials by Severe Plastic Deformation, Feb 26 – Mar 3, 2023, International. [Oral]
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, Hyeonseok Kwon, Manogna Gangaraju Karthi, Peyman Asghari-Rad, Alireza Zargaran, and Hyoung Seop Kim. Superior cryogenic strength and ductile ferrous medium entropy alloy via martensite lath microstructure, 35th Conference on Advanced Structural Materials, Nov 11-12, 2021, National. [Oral]
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, Peyman Asghari-Rad, Jeong Min Park, Jongun Moon, Jae Wung Bae, and Hyoung Seop Kim. Superior cryogenic tensile properties in medium entropy alloy through grain refinement and heterogeneous microstructure, International Symposium on Innovation in Materials Processing, Jeju, South Korea, Nov 6-8, 2019, International. [Oral].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, Jeong Min Park, Jongun Moon, Jae Wung Bae, Peyman Asghari-Rad, and Hyoung Seop Kim. Achieving superior mechanical properties in Al0.3CoCrNi medium-entropy alloy by utilizing heterogeneous microstructure, 26th International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous, and Nanostructured Materials, Chennai, India, July 08-12, 2019, International. [Oral].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, BS Murty, and Ravi Sankar Kottada. High-temperature compression creep of high entropy alloy nanocomposite, 7th International Conference on Creep, Fatigue, Creep-Fatigue Interactions, IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India, Jan 19 - 22, 2016, International. [Poster].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, BS Murty, and Ravi Sankar Kottada. Exceptional resistance to grain growth and remarkable resistance to creep behavior in nanocrystalline CoCrFeNi high entropy alloy, National Metallurgist Day – Annual Technical Meeting, Coimbatore, India, Nov 13-16, 2015, National. [Oral].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, BS Murty, and Ravi Sankar Kottada. Thermal Analysis and Subsequent Phase Analysis of Quaternary and Ternary High Entropy Alloys Synthesized by Mechanical Alloying, National Metallurgist Day – Annual Technical Meeting, Pune, India. Nov 12 - 15, 2014, National. [Poster].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, Raj Tilak, BS Murty, and Ravi Sankar Kottada. Thermal stability and creep studies of NiCoCrFe high entropy alloy, TMS, San Diego, USA, Feb 16-20, 2014, International. [Oral].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, BS Murty, and Ravi Sankar Kottada. Effect of Cr, Mn, and Cu on Phase Evolution and Densification of CoFeNiM (M =Cr, Mn, Cu) High Entropy Alloys, TMS, San Antonio, USA, March 3-7, 2013, International. [Oral].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, BS Murty, and Ravi Sankar Kottada. Alloying and Creep Behavior of Mechanically Alloyed NiCoCrFe High Entropy Alloy, ADNAM, NIOT, Chennai, India, Feb 22 – 23, 2013, National. [Poster].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, BS Murty, and Ravi Sankar Kottada. Thermal stability studies of CoCrFeNi high entropy alloys synthesized by mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering, National Metallurgist Day – Annual Technical Meeting, Varanasi, India, Nov 12-15, 2013, National. [Oral].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, BS Murty, and Ravi Sankar Kottada. Sintering and Thermal Stability Studies on NiCoCrFeMox (x = 0 and 5 at %) High Entropy Alloys, National Metallurgist Day – Annual Technical Meeting, Hyderabad, India, Nov 14-17, 2011, National. [Oral].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, BS Murty, and Ravi Sankar Kottada. Phase evolution studies of multicomponent NiCoCrFe High Entropy Alloy, National Metallurgist Day – Annual Technical Meeting, Jamshedpur, Nov 16 – 20, 2012, India National. [Poster].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, BS Murty, and Ravi Sankar Kottada. Alloying and Mechanical Behavior of Mechanical Alloyed Multi-Component MCoCrCuFe (M=Al or Ni) alloys, International Symposium for Research Scholars, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, Dec 20 - 22, 2010, National [Poster].
Praveen Sathiyamoorthi, BS Murty, and Ravi Sankar Kottada. High Strength High Entropy Alloys AlCoCrCuFeMox (x= 0 and 0.5) Prepared by Mechanical Alloying and Spark Plasma Sintering, National Metallurgist Day – Annual Technical Meeting, Bangalore, India, Nov 14-17, 2010, National [Oral].

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