RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
· 2015.9-present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University and CAMP NANO, XJTU.
EDUCATION
· 2008.9-2014.10
PhD, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 560012
· 2004.9-2008.6
Undergraduate (B.Tech), Department of Metallurgical and Materials Science, VNIT Nagpur, MH, India.
AWARDS & HONORS
· 2015 Best Thesis award in Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
· 2014 Top Reviewer award for Scripta Materialia
· 2008-2009 Ranked 1st in PhD class of 2009, Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
· 2008 Ranked # 11 in All India Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) in Materials Engineering
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
1. R.L. Narayan, Parag Tandaiya, G. R. Garrett, M.D. Demetriou, U. Ramamurty, “On the variability in fracture toughness of ‘ductile’ bulk metallic glasses”, Scripta Materialia. Vol. 102, pp 75-78, (2015).
2. R.L. Narayan, Parag Tandaiya, R. Narasimhan, and U. Ramamurty, “Wallner lines, crack velocity and mechanisms of crack nucleation and growth in a brittle bulk metallic glass", Acta materialia. Vol. 80, pp. 407-420, (2014).
3. R.L. Narayan, P.S. Singh, D.C. Hofmann, N. Hutchinson, K.M. Flores, and U. Ramamurty, “On the microstructure - tensile property correlations in bulk metallic glass matrix composites with crystalline dendrites”, Acta materialia. Vol. 60, pp. 5089-5100, (2012).
4. R.L. Narayan, K. Boopathy, Indrani Sen, D.C. Hofmann, U. Ramamurty, “On the hardness and elastic modulus of bulk metallic glass matrix composites”, Scripta Materialia, vol. 63, pp. 768-771, (2010).