Dr. Ashok K. Srivastava

A visionary leader having exemplary academic and administrative experience in the field of Higher Education. He has ability to create an institutional vision and strategy in a complex working environment, and to lead their implementation in such a way that inspires and engages all stakeholders to ensure the participation and support of the University community. Also having ability to be innovative in strategy development and to make difficult choices between multiple strategic imperatives so that the University’s forward planning is both realistic and resource efficient. He has demonstrated experience in educational administration at senior academic leadership position, managing large team of people. He has good understanding of launching innovative academic programs, curriculum enrichment, research, innovation and business development. Experienced in skill development/skill education, accreditation, ranking, strategy, planning, team management, governance and institution building. He has a unique leadership style that creates positive environment and brings out the best in the team for achieving organizational goals and is the one who is hands-on, can visualize the future, articulates it in a lucid manner and ensures implementation. He is an experienced specialist expert in higher education, academic, research, innovation, administration, strategy, leadership, business analytics and Development. He has ample experience in leading a highly complex organization with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities. He has adaptability and responsiveness to a fast-moving external environment and has practical experience, at a senior level, in managing and motivating staff, team building, succession planning and in leading change.

• Appointed as the Chairman, Eastern Region of India, ASM International USA.
• Recently appreciated and acknowledged with Best Vice Chancellor of the Private University in the state by the Academic Advisor to Hon'ble Governor of Jharkhand.
• Appointed as an Advisor of the Amity University Kolkata.
• Nominated as an Expert Member of the NEP Strategically Implementation Committee of Jharkhand by Hon'ble Governor.
• Appointed as an Expert Member of the Accreditation and Ranking committee of the Amity Education Group for Ranchi, Kolkata, Patna and Mohali campuses.
• Appointed as an Evaluator by the National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET)-Quality Council of India (QCI), Government of India for the Impacting Research, Innovation and Technology (IMPRINT-IMPRINT I/ IMPRINT II/UAY) projects supported by MHRD (Joint initiative of Pan-IIT + IISc).
• Appointed as an Expert for Infollion Expert Panel (IEP) in the Metallurgy Industry domain by Infollion Research Services Pvt Ltd, Haryana, INDIA and Milwaukee, USA.
• Appointed as the Chairman, Board of Studies, Metallurgical Engineering, Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekananda Technical University (CSVTU), Bhilai (CG).
• Appointed as an Advisor for Technical and Business Development in the Metcon Power Consultant and Engineers, Hooghly, West Bengal.
• Appointed as an Advisor for Business Development and Operation Strategy in the Raj IT Solution Private Limited, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
• Appointed as an Advisor for Strategy in the Tuls Corp Private Limited, Mumbai.
• Acted as a Member, Academic Council, CSVTU, Bhilai (C.G.).
• Implemented at OPJU the innovative learning mechanisms and various e-teaching/learning models like: MOOCs, Intranet, Blended Teaching, Flipped Classrooms, Moodle etc.
• Research Publications (h-index: 11, i10-index: 11 and total citations > 625).
• Evaluated 02 PhD thesis, guided 01 PhD Scholar and guiding at present 03 PhD Scholars.
• Evaluated 15, Guided 06 and guiding at present 02 M. Tech thesis.
• Acting as the reviewer of many journals, some important journals are: Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing, Elsevier; Journal of the European Ceramic Society; Materials Characterization, Elsevier; Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering (MSCE); · Metals and Materials International; Journal of alloys and compounds.
• Appointed as a member of the Editorial Board in the international journals: Materials Sciences and Applications, Scientific Research Publishing; Modern Electronic Technology, Bilingual Publishing Co.
• Organized 06 international conferences with 350-375 Indian (325-350) & Foreign (25-50) delegates and 06 national conferences with 425-450 delegates.

• Awarded as the Best Leadership by News11
• Awarded by Editor’s Choice Article for 2015 by the international journal “Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis”, ASM International, Springer.
• Awarded PhD in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from IIT Kharagpur with two sponsored research projects funded by Naval Research Board of India.
• Awarded best M Tech Project thesis.
• Awarded First Class with Distinction in M Phil Prog.
• Awarded 2nd rank in the University and 1st rank in the NIT Jamshedpur in M Sc Prog.

• Launched B.Tech. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering International Students Exchange Program at OP Jindal University, Raigarh in collaboration with Anhui University of Technology, China.
• Established Material Advantage Chapter Charter, USA at OP Jindal University, Raigarh in association with Association for Iron and Steel Technology, USA, ASM International USA, ACeS USA, and The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) USA which is the First Chapter in any private university/institute in India.
• Knowledge sharing collaboration with Colorado School of Mines, Colorado, USA.
• Research Collaboration with Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
• Research Collaboration with Changwon National University, Republic of Korea.
• Research Collaboration with Shinshu University, Japan.
• Research Collaboration with University of Science & Technology, Beijing, China.
• Knowledge sharing collaboration with SWEREA, MEFOS, Sweden.
• Knowledge sharing collaboration with The University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA.

• Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST), USA.
• The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), USA
• ASM International (ASM), USA.
• The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), USA.
• Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), New Delhi, India (Life Member).
• Indian Institute of Metal, Kolkata, India (Life Member).
• Indian Ceramic Society, Kolkata, India – Associate Member

• "Highly sensitive and selective nanoengineered PtO2-BNNT heterostructures ppb levels ammonia gas sensing", Published in 'Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical', 400 (Part A), 2024, 134818 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Ashutosh Sharma, Bharat Sharma, K. Karuppasamy, Akram Alfantazi.
• "Structural and electrochemical study about the electrode material of carbon-based biomass for energy storage devices" Published in 'AIP Conference Proceedings 2888 (1), 2003 by A. Srivastava, MS Khan, SS Jain, S Sharma, R Ranjan.
• “Structural Relationship of Interconnection Network”, Published in ‘SN Computer Science’ 4:551 (2023), Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Ramakant Bhardwaj, Manisha Singh, R. N. Singh, Vivek Prasad Patel, Amit Kumar Mishra.
• An experimental approach for achieving high strength dissimilar aluminium-magnesium joints: Application of tool pin profiles on different joint configurations", Published in 'CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology', Vol.45, 2023, pp 49-60 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Uttam Acharya, Uday Kumar, Moupiya Ghosh, Smriti Choudhury, Barnik Saha Roy.
• "Al-guided optimization of manufacturing protocols for AHSS coils", Published in 'MAterials and Manufacturing Processes', Vol.38(2), 2023, pp151-158 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Rajesh Jha, Pradip k Patra.
• "AHSS applications in industry 4.0: Determination of optimum processing parameter during coiling process through unsupervised machine learning approach", Published in 'Materials Today Communication', Vol.31, 2022, 103625 by Ashok K Srivastava, Rajesh Jha, Pradip K Patra.
• "Influence of Inhibitors on the Corrosion of Al and Al-composites in Chloride-containing solutions-A Review", Published in 'Korean Journal of Materials Research', Vol.32(5), 2022, pp.280-286 by Ashok K Srivastava, Neeraj Kumar, Prabhat Gautam, M. K. Manoj.
• "Pulse spray gas metal arc welding of advanced high strength S650MC automotive steel", Published in 'Metallurgical and Materials Engineering', Vol.27 (4), 2021, pp.505-517 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Pradip K Patra.
• "Nanomaterials for advanced photovoltaic cells", Published in 'Emerging nanotechnologies for renewable energy', 2021, pp.239-258 by Ashok K Srivastava, Neeraj Kumar, M.K. Phani, Pankaj Chamoli, Ashutosh Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar, Waqar Ahmed, M.K. Manoj.
• "Correlation of corrosion resistance of Hot Rolled UHSS with its Microstructure", Published in 'Processing and Characterization of Materials: Proceedings of CPCM 2020' 2021, pp.175-186 by Ashok K Srivastava, Pradip K Patra.
• "Study of europium doped CaAl2Si2O8 phosphor prepared by solution combustion synthesis: Optical, fracto-mechanoluminescence and thermoluminescence", Published in 'Optik', Vol. 226, 2021, 165946 by Ashok K Srivastava, GC Mishra, R Sharma, SJ Dhoble.
• "Investigation of electrochemical corrosion behavior of additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V alloy for medical implants in different electrolytes", Published in 'Journal of Alloys and Compounds', Vol. 830, 2020, 154620 by Ashok K Srivastava, Ashutosh Sharma, Min Chul Oh, Jung-Taek Kim, Byungmin Ahn.
• “Strength–Ductility Trade-Off in Dual-Phase Steel Tailored via Controlled Phase Transformation” Published in ‘Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance’, 29, pages2783–2791 (2020) by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Nand K. Patel, B. Ravi Kumar, Ashutosh Sharma, Byungmin Ahn.
• "Low and medium carbon advanced high-strength forging steels for automotive applications", Published in 'Metals', Vol.9 (12), 2019, 1263 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Koh-ichi Sugimoto, Tomohiko Hojo.
• "Microstructure, wetting, and tensile behaviours of Sn-Ag alloy reinforced with copper-coated carbon nanofibers produced by the melting and casting route", Published in 'Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A', Vol.50, 2019, pp.5384-5394 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Ashutosh Sharma, Byungmin Ahn.
• "Effects of Cr and Mo on mechanical properties of hot-forged medium carbon TRIP-aided bainitic ferrite steels", Published in 'Metals', Vol.9 (10), 2019, 1066 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Koh-ichi Sugimoto, Sho-hei Sato, Junya Kobayashi.
• "Fabrication and dry sliding wear study of Al6061/mussel-shell particulate composites", Published in 'SN Applied Sciences', Vol. 1(7), 2019, pp.1-13 by Ashok K Srivastava, Surendra K Dwiwedi, Manoj Chopkar.
• "Impact of non-reactive ceria nanoparticles on the wettability and reaction kinetics between lead-free Sn-58Bi and Cu pad", Published in 'Metals and Materials International', Vol.25, 2019, pp.1027-1038 by Ashok K Srivastava, Ashutosh Sharma, Kwan Lee, Byungmin Ahn.
• "Microstructure, mechanical properties, and drop reliability of CeO2 reinforced Sn-9Zn composite for low temperature soldering", Published in 'Materials Research Express', Vol.6 (5), 2019, 056520 by Ashok K Srivastava, Ashutosh Sharma, Byunmin Ahn.
• “Wear study of Chicken Eggshell-Reinforced Al6061 Matrix Composites”, Published in ‘Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals', Vol.72, 2019, pp 73-84 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Surendra Kumar Dwiwedi, Manoj Kumar Chopkar.
• “An Overview of Fatigue Strength of Case-Hardening TRIP-Aided Martensitic Steels”, Published in ‘Metals', Vol.8 (5), 2018, 355 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Koh- ichi Sugimoto and Tomohiko Hojo.
• “Template-Assisted Fabrication of Nanostructured Tin (β-Sn) Arrays for Bulk Microelectronic Packaging Devices”, Published in ‘Metals', Vol.8 (5), 2018, 347 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Ashutosh Sharma, Yongho Jeon and Byungmin Ahn.
• “Study of lyoluminescence of gamma-irradiated GdCa4O(BO3)3:Ce phosphors: Mass of solute and pH of solvent as a key factor”, Published in ‘Optik', Vol.158, 2018, pp826- 830 by Ashok Srivastava, G.C. Mishra, S. J. Dhoble, Surendra Dwiwedi and R. S. Kher.
• “Microstructural and mechanical characterization of Chicken Eggshell-reinforced Al6061 Matrix Composites”, Published in ‘Open Journal of Metals'’, Vol.8 (1), 2018, pp1-13 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Surendra Kumar Dwiwedi, Manoj Chopkar and Koh-ichi Sugimoto.
• “Advances in Joining and Welding Technologies for Automotive and Electronic Applications”, Published in ‘American Journal of Materials Engineering and Technology’, Vol. 5 (1), 2017, pp7-13, 2017 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava and Ashutosh Sharma.
• “Corrosion Behavior of TiC and (Ti,W)C-Reinforced Fe-17Mn and Fe-17Mn-3Al Austenitic Steel Matrix In Situ Composites”, Published in ‘Metallography, Microstructure and Analysis (ASM International)', Vol. 4, 2015, pp.371–380 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Karabi Das, Sandeep Kr. Toor and Koh-ichi Sugimoto.
• “Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of a TRIP-aided Martensitic Steel”, Published in Published in ‘Metallography, Microstructure and Analysis (ASM International)’, Vol. 4, 2015, pp.344–354 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava and Koh-ichi Sugimoto.
• “Corrosion behaviour of TiC-reinforced Hadfield Manganese Austenitic Steel matrix in-situ composites”, Published in ‘Open Journal of Metals’, Vol. 5, 2015, pp.11-17 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Karabi Das, Sandeep Kumar Toor.
• “Experimental investigation of the effect of Working Parameters on Wire Offset in Wire Electrical Discharge Machining of Hadfield Manganese Steel” Published in ‘Journal of Surface Engineered Materials and Advanced Technology’, Vol. 3 (4), 2013, 295 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Surya Kanta Pal, Probir Saha, Karabi Das.
• “Multi-objective optimization in wire-electro-discharge machining of TiC reinforced composites through Neuro-Genetic technique”, Published in ‘Applied Soft Computing’, Vol.13(4), 2013, pp.2065-2074 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Karabi Das, Probir Saha, Debashis Tarafdar, Surjya K. Pal, Partha Saha.
• “In Situ Synthesis, Microstructure, and Properties of TiC and (Ti,W)C-Reinforced Fe-Mn-Al Austenitic Steel Matrix Composites”, Published in ‘Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance’, Vol. 21, 2012, pp.2438-2445 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Karabi Das.
• “The abrasive wear resistance of TiC and (Ti,W)C-reinforced Fe-17Mn austenitic steel matrix composites”, Published in ‘Tribology International’, Vol. 43, 2010, pp.944- 950 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Karabi Das.
• “Modeling of wire-electro-discharge machining of TiC/Fe in-situ metal matrix composite using normalized RBFN with enhanced k-means clustering technique”, Published in ‘International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (ISSN: 0268-3768)’, Published in Vol. 43 (2009) pp.107-116 Ashok Kumar Srivastava, Karabi Das, Probir Saha, Debashis Tarafdar, Surjya K. Pal and Partha Saha.
• “In-situ Synthesis and Characterization of TiC-reinforced Hadfield Manganese Austenitic Steel Matrix Composite”, Published in ‘ISIJ International (ISSN: 0915-1559)’, Vol. 49 (2009) pp.1372-1377 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava and Karabi Das.
• “Microstructural and mechanical characterization of in situ TiC and (Ti,W)C-reinforced high manganese austenitic steel matrix composites”, Published in ‘Materials Science and Engineering A (ISSN: 0921-5093)’, Vol. 516 (2009) pp.1-6 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava and Karabi Das.
• “Microstructure and abrasive wear study of (Ti,W)C-reinforced high manganese austenitic steel matrix composite”, Published in ‘Materials Letter (ISSN: 0167-577X)’, Vol. 62 (2008) pp.3947-3950 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava and Karabi Das.
• “Microstructural characteristics of Hadfield austenitic manganese steel”, Published in ‘Journal of Materials Science (ISSN: 0022-2461)’, Vol. 43 (2008) pp.5654-5658 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava and Karabi Das.
• “Microstructural and Mechanical characterization of C-Mn-Al-Si cold-rolled TRIP-aided Steel”, Published in ‘Material Science and Engineering A (ISSN: 0921-5093)’, Vol. 445-446 (2007) pp.549–557 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, D. Bhattachrjee, G. Jha, N. Gope and S. B. Singh.
• “Effect of heat treatment on microstructure and mechanical properties of cold rolled C-Mn- Si TRIP-aided steel”, Published in ‘Materials Characterization (ISSN: 1044-5803)’, Vol. 57 (2006) pp.127-135 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, G. Jha, N. Gope and S. B. Singh.
• “High Strength Steels for Automotive applications: Recent Trends and Experience at Tata Steel”, Published in ‘International Society of Automotive Engineers’, (2005) pp.201-211 by Ashok Kumar Srivastava, N. Gope, G. Jha, D. K. Rout, S. Mukherjee, A. N. Bhagat, A. K Verma and D. Bhattacharjee

• “Effect of Different Aqueous Electrolytes on Corrosion Resistance of Selective Laser Melted Ti-6Al-4V Alloy”, Presented in ‘TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition 2019’ to be held on March 10-14, 2019 held at San Antonio, USA.
• Participated in the International Exhibition and Conference "INDIA STEEL 2019", organized by Ministry of Steel, Government of India and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) held at Mumbai, during January 22-24, 2019.
• “Weldability Assessment of Advanced High Strength Steel (YS>650 Mpa) Produced through CSP route” Presented in ‘ASIA Steel International Conference (ASIA Steel 2018)’ to be held on Feb 6-9, 2018 at Hotel Mayfair, Bhubaneswar, India.
• “Development of a hot rolled Ultra high strength steel with YS >700 MPa through CSP route by optimizing coiling temperature” Presented in ‘ASIA Steel International Conference (ASIA Steel 2018)’ to be held on Feb 6-9, 2018 at Hotel Mayfair, Bhubaneswar, India.
• “Ferrite Channel Effect on Ductility and Strain Hardenability of High Strength Dual Phase Steel” Presented in ‘Third International Conference on "Advance in Steel, Power and Construction Technology’ held on March 22-23, 2017 at Raipur organized by OPJU, JSPL Raigarh.
• “Effect of Hydrogen Embrittlement on Fracture toughness of API Grade Steel - A REVIEW” presented in ‘Third International Conference on "Advance in Steel, Power and Construction Technology’ held on March 22-23, 2017 at Raipur organized by OPJU, JSPL Raigarh.
• “Conventional melting and casting of carbide-reinforced austenitic steel matrix in-situ composites”, Presented (Keynote) in ‘The National Conference on Emerging Technologies in Foundry and Forge (NCETFF 2016)’ held on November 25-26, 2016 at NIFFT Hatia, Ranchi.
• “Morphological and Mechanical Characterization of Low Alloy TMT Steel with Dual Phase” Presented in ‘International Conference on Advance in Steel, Power and Construction Technology’ held on January 14-16, 2015 at OPJU, JSPL Raigarh.
• “Preparation and Characterization of Polyaniline (PANI) – Platinum Nanocomposite” Presented in International Conference (International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation) held on February 26-27, 2015 at Dubai, UAE.
• “Pancaking in Cold Rolled Al-Killed Low Carbon Extra Deep Drawing Steel”, Presented in ‘International Conference on "Advance in Steel, Power and Construction Technology’ held on January 14-16, 2015 at OPJU, JSPL Raigarh.
• “Failure Analysis of Shear Blade of Wire Rod Mill” Presented in ‘International Conference on Metallurgical and Materials Processes, Products and Applications’ held on January 8-10, 2014 at OPJIT, JSPL Raigarh, India.
• “Investigating the Machinability Evaluation of Austenitic Hadfield Steel in the Wire-Electrical Discharge Machine (WEDM) based on the effect of Working Parameters on Cutting Speed” Presented in ‘International Conference on Metallurgical and Materials Processes, Products and Applications’ held on January 8-10, 2014 at OPJIT, JSPL Raigarh, India.
• “Modelling of heat flow path during heat transfer in heat conductive hyperbolic metallic surface” Presented in ‘AMPT 2012’ held on September 23-26, 2012 at Wollongong, Australia.
• “The abrasive wear resistance of TiC and (Ti,W)C-reinforced austenitic high manganese steel matrix in situ composites” Presented in ‘2nd International Conference on Advanced Tribology 2008 (iCAT 2008)’, held on December 3-5, 2008 at NUS Singapore.
• “Microstructural study of (Ti,W)C-reinforced high manganese austenitic steel matrix composite”, Presented in ‘INCCOM-VI’, held on December 12-14, 2007 at IIT Kanpur, India.
• “In situ synthesis and characterization of TiC-reinforced steel matrix composite”, Presented in ‘International conference on Advanced Materials and Composites (ICAMC-2007)’, held on October 24-26, 2007 at RRL Trivandrum, India.
• “An Advanced high strength steel (TRIP-aided steel) for automotive car body: An Overview”, Presented in ‘INCCOM-IV’, held on December 5-7, 2005 at Amrita Engineering College, Coimbatore, India.
• “Thermodynamic equilibrium calculations of cold-rolled TRIP-aided steel by Thermo-Calc Software”, Presented in ‘International Conference on Advances in Materials and Materials Processing (ICAMMP-2006)’ held on February 3-5, 2006 at IIT Kharagpur, India

Father’s name: Sri Lawlin Prasad

Mother’s name: Smt Lalita Devi

Spouse Name: Mrs. Shubhra Srivastava 

(Working in Indian Railway Service at Tatanagar, Jamshedpur)

Sex: Male

Date of Birth: December 12, 1976

Marital status: Married (01 Daughter: Anvesha and 01 Son: Anirvan)

NATIONAL

Name: Dr. Siddhartha Das

Position and Address: Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Managing Director, Science and Technology Entrepreneurs' Park, IIT Kharagpur-721302, India

E-mail: sdas.iitkgp@gmail.com; Contact: +9194340 16998

Name: Dr. Ing. Omkar Nath Mohanty

Position and Address: Director, Technology & Academic Initiative, RSB Metaltech., RSB Group, Pune, India

Formerly: Professor, IIT Kharagpur,

Director Scientist, NML Jamshedpur,

Director, R&D Tata Steel; Vice Chancellor, BPUT Odisha

E-mail: omkarmohanty45@gmail.com; Contact: +91 9437016808

Name: Dr. B. K. Sthapak

Position and Address: Chancellor - OP Jindal University, Raigarh,

Formerly: Vice Chancellor, CSVTU Bhilai, Chhattisgarh

Director, Directorate Technical Education, Raipur(CG)

E mail: drbksthapak@opjit.edu.in; Contact: +91 9329104892

INTERNATIONAL

Name: Dr. David K. Matlock

Position and Address: University Emeritus Professor

ASPPRC, The George S. Ansell Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, USA

Email: dmatlock@mines.edu; Contact: TEL: 303-273-3775

Name: Dr. Koh-ichi Sugimoto

Position and Address: Professor, Department of Mechanical Systems

Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University 4-17-1, Wakasato, Nagano 380-8553, JAPAN.

Email: sugimot@shinshu-u.ac.jp; Contact: TEL: +81-26-269-5114

Name: Dr. Bin Yang

Position and Address: Professor, State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals &

Materials, University of Science & Technology Beijing, CHINA.

Email: byang@ustb.edu.cn; Contact : TEL & FAX +86-10-62333351

Position and Address: Professor, Department of Mechanical Systems

Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University 4-17-1, Wakasato, Nagano 380-8553, JAPAN.

The facts stated above are true to the best of my knowledge & belief.

(Dr Ashok K Srivastava)