Subbarayan Sivasankaran
Dr. S. Sivasankaran is working as an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Qassim University. He has received several Deanship of Scientific Research Grants in Qassim University towards research work in the fields of materials and manufacturing. He completed his PhD degree in Production Engineering (Manufacturing Technology—Nanocomposite Materials) from NIT Trichy, India. After his doctoral degree, he worked as an associate professor in the KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology (KPRIET), Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. He has established an advanced materials research laboratory and entrepreneurship development cell in KPRIET. He has received a number of research and seminar grants from government of India. Furthermore, he served as an associate professor in Hawassa University, East Africa, for 2 years where he was involved in curriculum development. He has published more than 75 research articles in refereed international journals, acts as a reviewer for more than 20 refereed international journals (Elsevier, Springer, ASME), and has edited two books. Finally, his research interests are nanocomposites, mechanical alloying;, powder metallurgy, stir casting, advanced welding, 3D printing, metal matrix composites, polymer matrix composites, mechanical behavior, machining behavior, advanced characterization techniques, optimization, and modeling.