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Welding Engineering Expert, Welding Research Expert, Welding Processes and Welded Materials Specialist, Materials Science and Engineering Consultant, Research and Development Expert, Engineering Consulting Services
Expertise in welding engineering, welding research, welding processes and welded materials, materials science and engineering.

This expert specializes in welding research including improving reliability of results by optimizing uncertain model parameters, tailoring weld attributes using population based optimization algorithms, and embedding physicochemical processes to make models realistic. Resulting simulations of geometry, composition and structure of welds/materials provide solutions to important production and design problems based on scientific principles. Because these models are useful for quantitative understanding of welding processes and welded materials, they have been widely used by many researchers from all over the world.

Major national and international scholastic awards have consistently recognized research conducted by this consultant, with papers being cited thousands of times in peer reviewed literature.

This consultant offers specific expertise relative to tailoring GTA weld attributes and improving reliability of heat transfer and materials flow calculations during gas tungsten arc and friction stir welding, modeling of heat transfer and free surface flow in gas metal arc fillet welding, computer modeling for welding engineers to achieve defect free, structurally sound, reliable welds, weld pool heat transfer and fluid flow in probing weldment characteristics, computer modeling and understanding the science of welding, mathematical modeling of fluid flow and heat transfer in fusion welding, porosity and alloying element loss during laser welding of 5754 aluminum alloy, experimental and numerical investigation of transport phenomena in conduction mode weld pools, nitrogen dissolution in the weld metal, role of interfacial phenomena in numerical analysis of weldability, mass transfer in welding, and more

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Materials Science and Engineering, Welding Engineering, Welding Research

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc.

Providing expertise in welding engineering, welding research, welding processes and welded materials, materials science and engineering, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

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Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Research Associate, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Postdoctoral Associate, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England

Postdoctoral, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Research Student, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

HONORS AND AWARDS
Charles H. Jennings Memorial Award, American Welding Society, (Three separate awards)
Yoshiaki Arata Award, International Institute of Welding (IIW), Villepinte, France
William Spraragen Memorial Award, American Welding Society (AWS), (Two awards)
Kenneth Easterling Best Paper Award, International Institute of Welding, Villepinte, France and Technical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Honorary Membership Award, American Welding Society
The 57th Comfort A. Adams Lecture of American Welding Society award
Fellow, American Welding Society
Warren F. Savage Memorial Award, American Welding Society
Faculty Scholar Medal
McKay Helm Award, American Welding Society
Wilson Research Award, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Fellow, ASM International

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Editor, Welding and Joining technology publication
Principal Reviewer, Welding Journal Research Supplement
Member, Board of Review (Key Reader), Metallurgical Transactions
Co-Chair, International Conference on Trends in Welding Research (multiple years)
Vice-Chair, Research and Development Committee, American Welding Society (AWS)
Chair, Vice-Chair, Local Chapter of ASM International;
Chair, MacFarland Award Committee, Local Chapter of ASM
Moderator, US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences Panel on Opportunities in Welding Science
Panel Member, Metals and Alloys Review Panel, Division of Materials Research, National Science Foundation
Panel Member, US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences Panel for Identifying Basic Research Opportunities
Panelist, National Materials Advisory Board, National Research Council, Status of Advanced High Speed Computations in Materials Science and Engineering
Panel Member, US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Review Panel on Environmental Management Science Program
Member, NASA Microgravity Materials Science Review Panel on Metals and Alloys
Member, NSF Review Panels, served on several review panels
Member, American Welding Society Strategic Planning Task Force
Member, Awards Committee, American Welding Society (AWS)
Member, AWS Technical Papers Award Sub-committee
Chair, AWS Samuel Wylie Miller Award Sub-committee
Member, AWS Welding Handbook Committee
ASM Joining Division Council, Advisory Committee Member
Chair, Physical Chemistry Committee of AIME; Vice-Chair; Secretary; Program Chair; Member
Co-organizer, Sessions on Modeling of Extractive Metallurgical Processes. AIME Annual Meetings (multiple years).
Member, University Research Ethics Investigatory Committee
Chair, Professional Recognition Committee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Chair, Faculty Scholar Medal Award Committee (Engineering)
Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
Chair, Cooperative Program Committee, Metals Science and Engineering Program
Member, Executive Committee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Chair, Materials Science and Engineering Task force on Departmental Affiliation/Courtesy Appointment

PUBLICATIONS
Extensively published author of numerous publications and presentations in areas related to welding process research and improvement on topics including tailoring GTA weld attributes and improving reliability of heat transfer and materials flow calculations during gas tungsten arc and friction stir welding, modeling of heat transfer and free surface flow in gas metal arc fillet welding, computer modeling for welding engineers to achieve defect free, structurally sound, reliable welds, weld pool heat transfer and fluid flow in probing weldment characteristics, computer modeling and understanding the science of welding, mathematical modeling of fluid flow and heat transfer in fusion welding, porosity and alloying element loss during laser welding of 5754 aluminum alloy, experimental and numerical investigation of transport phenomena in conduction mode weld pools, nitrogen dissolution in the weld metal, role of interfacial phenomena in numerical analysis of weldability, mass transfer in welding, and more.

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