Pawan Kumar Rakesh
Assistant Professor

Dr. Rakesh is serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand (NIT Uttarakhand) in Srinagar, Garhwal, India. He has also served as Head of Department, Mechanical Engineering (2013–2016), and Associate Dean (Faculty Welfare) from 2016 to 2020. Working in a growing organization, he has acquired substantial exposure to several lab developments, academic structure, and student welfare. He has also been the coordinator of the Design Innovation Center at NIT Uttarakhand from 2018 to date. He has authored 74 articles that have been published in reputed international and national journals and conferences. He has also organized two international conferences and eighteen workshops at the institute. He has edited six books, namely, “Processing of Green Composites,” Springer, ISBN 978-981-13-6019-0; Advances in Engineering Design, Springer, ISBN 978-981-334-018-3; Joining Processes for Dissimilar and Advanced Materials, ISBN 9780323853996, Elsevier; and Cellulose Composites: Processing and Characterization,” ISBN 978-3-11-076869-5, DE GRUYTER, Innovative Development in Micromanufacturing Processes, ISBN 978-1-032-42918-2, Polylactic Acid Composites: Sustainable Biocomposites, ISBN 9783111067285. He has contributed sixteen book chapters in a different book published by Woodhead Publishing, UK; Wiley-VCH, Verlag Gmbh, Germany; and Springer Nature Singapore Pte. Ltd. He has supervised four PhD and six MTech students. He is the recipient of the Best Faculty Award in 2023.