Dr. Venkateswara Rao Komma

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: kvrao[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: 05322271521(O) 9412979763(M)

Other Academic Achievements

Conferences Attended for Presenting Paper:

Participated and presented a research paper in 6th International and 27th All India Manufacturing Technology Design & Research (AIMTDR) Conference, Department of Production Engineering and Industrial Management, College of Engineering, Pune, India, December 16-18, 2016.

Participated and presented a research paper in 4th International and 25th AIMTDR Conference, Department of Production Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 14-16 December 2012.

Participated and presented a research paper in Advances in Mechanical Engineering (AIME-2006) conference, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, January 20-21, 2006.

Participated and presented a research paper in National Conference on Advances in Manufacturing Systems (AMS-03), Production Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 28-29th March, 2003.

Conferences/ Workshops/Symposium/ Short-term Courses Organized:

Organized as a "Program Chair" an IEEE international conference on Advances in Mechanical, Industrial, Automation and Management Systems (AIMAMS-2017), Department of Mechanical Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad, India, February 3-5, 2017.

Organizing member of First International and 22nd AIMTDR Conference, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India, 21st-23rd December 2006

Organizing member of XIII National conference of Indian Society of Mechanical Engineers (ISME 2003), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee, 30th -31st December 2003

Conducted One Week Self Financed Short Term Course On "Micromanufacturing: Materials, Processes and Systems (MMPS-2014)" as a Coordinator (June 17-21, 2014)

Projects Completed:

“Development of an Experimental Setup for Heat Pipe Assisted Dry Turning”, Institute Sponsored Project, MNNIT Allahabad, duration 18 months (Completed in 2011).

"Cylindrical Electric Magnetic Abrasive Machining (C-EMAM): Development, Modeling and Optimization", Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi sponsored project (project no. 22(0644)/13/EMR-II dated 31/10/2013), as a Co-PI, from 31/10/2013 to 31/03/2017 (2013- 2017), funding 21.4 Lakhs (Completed)

Consultancy(Past):

Third-party evaluation of CCTV, Wi-Fi, and Solar Light under Swadesh Darshan Scheme of Tourism Department of Government of India at Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh (January-March 2022)

Expert Lectures:

Delivered an expert lecture on "Genetic Algorithms" in a short term course - Applications Of Artificial Intelligence Techniques In Engineering Systems - 2013, June 10 - 14, 2013, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad

Delivered an expert lecture on " Systems in Micromanufacturing" in a short term course - Micromanufacturing: Materials, Processes and Systems (MMPS- 2013), July 08 - 12, 2013, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad

Delivered an expert lecture on "Data Exchange in CAD/CAM" in a short term course - Computer Aided Engineering (CAE-2013), July 11 – 15, 2013, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad.

Delivered an expert lecture on " Optimization using Evolutionary Algorithms" in a short term course - Numerical And Optimization Techniques (NOT-2014), October 31- November 04, 2014, Department of Civil Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad.

Delivered an expert lecture on "Systems in Micromanufacturing" in a short term course - Micromanufacturing: Materials, Processes and Systems (MMPS- 2014), June 17 - 21, 2014, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad.

Delivered an expert lecture on " Agent-Based Manufacturing Systems" in a QIP workshop on - Advances in Manufacturing Systems, February 14, 2015, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, IIT Rookee.

Delivered an expert lecture on "Evolutionary Algorithms" in a short term course - Application of Soft Computing Methods in Engineering – ASCME 2014, May 26 - 30, 2014, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad.

Delivered an expert lecture on "Evolutionary Optimization" in a TEQIP-II Sponsored Short Term Course on Bio-Inspired and Geospatial Techniques (BIOGEOS) February 27- March 03, 2015, Department of Civil Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad.

Delivered an expert lecture on "Evolutionary Optimization" in a Short Term Course on - Modelling and Optimization of Chemical & Biochemical Processes (MOCBP-2017) 16th -21st January, 2017, Department of Chemical Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad.

Delivered an expert lecture on " Evolutionary Optimization for Manufacturing Processes" in a TEQIP-III sponsored FDP on Manufacturing Science and Technology 3rd - 7th December, 2018, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shambhunath Institute of Engineering and Technology, Prayagraj

Delivered an expert lecture on " GA Based Optimization Using MATLAB" in a TEQIP-III sponsored STC on Practical Aspects of Optimization, 1st - 5th August, 2019, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kamala Nehru Institute of Technology (KNIT), Sultanpur, UP

Delivered an expert lecture on " Evolutionary Optimization using MATLAB" in a self financed short term course - Numerical and Optimization Techniques (NOT-2019), 8th - 12th November, 2019, Department of Civil Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad

Delivered an expert lecture on "Evolutionary Optimization" in One week FDP on Machine Learning Application in Mechanical Engineering, 21 - 26 December 2020, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Patna

Delivered an expert lecture on " Evolutionary Optimization using MATLAB " in Self Financed Short Term Online Course on Numerical and Optimization Technique (ONLINE NOT-2020), 9 -13 January 2021, Department of Civil Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad

Reviewer for Transactions / Journal / Conferences:

Reviewer of International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (IJAMT), International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM) and International Journal of Simulation Modeling (IJSIMM), AIMTDR 2014 conference

International Conference on International Conference on Innovations in Mechanical and Materials Engineering (IMME 2022), November 04-06, 2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad

Other Significant Achievements:

Attended Workshop On Supply Chain Management during 4th February 2015 to 8th February 2015 at Industrial and Management Engineering (IME) Department, IIT Kanpur.

Retrofitting of CNC Lathe, machining centres