Dr. Pranab Kumar Kundu

Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: pranabk[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: 0532 227 1512(O) 9433887700(M)

Other Academic Achievements

Keynote Address/Invited Talks in Conferences & Workshops:

Delivered a talk on "MEMs Fabrication – An Approach for Construction of Microfluidic Systems" as a resource person in the Short Term Training Program(STTP) cum Workshop on "Intelligent Biomedical Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems" scheduled during 22.09.2020 to 28.09.2020 organized by IIIT Allahabad

Delivered a talk on “Fabrication Aspects of Microfluidics Devices" as a resource person in the TEQIP-II sponsored Short term Course on “Advances in Micro System Technologies (AMST)" scheduled from 20.02.2017 to 24.02.2017 at Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Durgapur, West Bengal, India.

Delivered a talk on "Construction of Microfluidic Systems to be used in biomedical applications" in the Short-Term course on "Nanoinformatics for Biomedical Applications (NBA-2021)" held during 27-29th August 2021 organized by IIIT Allahabad

Delivered a talk on “MEMs Fabrications for constructing microfluidic systems” as a resource person in the FDP on “Emerging Trends in Thermal Engineering (ETTE 2021)” during 27th -31st, December 2021 organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology in association with Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE), Vijayawada chapter.

Delivered a talk on “Smart home through the applications of IoT” as a resource person in the two-week ATAL - FDP on "Applications of IoT in Mechanical Engineering" during 14th -25th, November 2022 organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology in association, Kunuru, Vijayawada, AP- 520007.

Conferences Attended for Presenting Paper:

Int. Conf. On Mechanical Engineering, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 26-28, 2001.

4th Workshop on Application of Laser in Mechanical Industry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Feb. 22-24, 2002.

Int. Conf. On Manufacturing, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Aug. 9-11, 2002.

20th AIMTDR Conference, BIT, Mesra, Ranchi, Dec. 13-15, 2002.

Conference on Advances and Recent Trends in Manufacturing (CARTM), Kalyani Government Engineering College, Kalyani, Nadia, November 14-15, 2003.

International Conference on Materials and Manufacturing Methods (3M – 2019), July 5-7, 2019, NIT Tiruchirappalli, India.

6th International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE-2019), June 8-10, 2019, NIT Jalandhar, India.

2nd International Conference on New Frontiers in Engineering, Science & Technology (NFEST 2019), Feb. 18-22, 2019, NIT Kurukshetra, India.

Innovations in Mechanical and Materials Engineering (IMME 2022), November 4-6, 2022, MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh 211004.

Award and Honors:

RECIPIENT OF VISVESVARAYA YOUNG FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (FROM MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, GOVT. OF INDIA)

On-going Projects:

USHA: Urine Sense towards Health Analysis of kidney. Sponsored by - Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Position: PI Rs. 50 Lakh

An Affordable Diagnostic Instrument: ColOSENS (Sponsored by Department of electronics & information technology, Govt. of India) Position: PI (NIT Sikkim) Rs. 299 Lakh

Overseas Assignments:

Research Visit to University of California, Irvine, CA. June-July 2009

Reviewer for Transactions / Journal / Conferences:

Physics of Fluids, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences, Sadhana, SN Applied Science, Journal of Institution of Engineers-Series C, Material Today: Proceeding