Budaraju Srinivasa Murty
Budaraju Srinivasa Murty | |
|---|---|
| Born | 13 February 1964 NIT Andhra Pradesh |
| Awards | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology(2007) |
Budaraju Srinivasa Murty is an Indian metallurgical engineer. He was awarded the
NIT Andhra Pradesh
from 14 Feb 2024
and he was also director of IIIT Raichur till 2022 Nov. Prior to that he was head of department at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
.
Early life and education
Murty was born on 13 February 1964 in
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology), in 1986 at the top of the class. He then joined Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, for his master's degree. From there he got his Ph.D. in 1992.[4]
His PhD supervisor was Professor S. Ranganathan.
Research
Murty's Ph.D. dissertation was titled "Study of Amorphous Phase Formation by Mechanical Alloying in Ti Based Systems", in which he started one of the earliest works in
Atom-probe tomography. He has set up a National Facility for Atom Probe Tomography at IIT Madras with a remotely operable Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP) (first such facility globally) that can characterize materials in 3D at the atomic scale. He has also set up Deakin-IITM Centre of Excellence on Advanced Materials and Manufacturing at IIT Madras jointly with Deakin University, Australia.[5]
He has authored above 400 journal publications and 4 books. He has supervised 39 PhDs and 20 PhDs are ongoing. He has completed over 55 sponsored research projects and currently handling 13 projects and filed 20 patents.
References
- ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ^ "Bio-Sketch of Prof. B.S. Murty". IIT Hyderabad. 26 August 2019.
- ^ "Department of Metallurgical and Materials". IIT Madras. 2017.
- ^ "Faculty profile". IIT Madras. 2017.
- ^ "Deakin-IIT Madras Centre Of Excellence In Advanced Materials And Manufacturing". IIT Madras. 2019.