• Dr.Arun D.I, Research scholar, Department of Aerospace Engineering, jointly guided by myself and Dr.B.Santhosh received the best published paper award under the young researcher category for the year 2020 for the paper titled ''Synergy studies on polyurethene-carbon black multi walled carbon nanotube based heterogeneous electro active shape memory nanocomposite system", coauthored by Chakravarthy P. and  K.S. Santhosh kumar, during the chapter day celebrations of the Indian Institute of Metals Trivandrum chapter, held on March 25 2023.
• Dr.Arun D.I, Research scholar, Department of Aerospace Engineering, jointly guided by myself and Dr.B.Santhosh received the best published paper award under the young researcher category for the year 2019 for the paper titled ''Structural -modeling and experimental validation of percolation threshold for nanotube polyurethene shape memory system", coauthored by R. Arun kumar, Chakravarthy P., B.S. Girish, K.S. Santhosh kumar and B.Santhosh, during the chapter day celebrations of the Indian Institute of Metals Trivandrum chapter, held on March 25 2023.
• Ms.Neelima Patnaikuni, M.Tech. student, jointly guided by myself and Dr.S.V.S Narayana Murty received Prof.Brahm Prakash best thesis award for the project titled ''Experimental and Numerical study on Flux Bounded Tungsten Inert Gas (FBTIG) Welding of Inconel 600'' during the chapter day celebrations of the Indian Institute of Metals Trivandrum chapter, held on March 25 2023.
• Ms.Neelima Patnaikuni, M.Tech. student, jointly guided by myself and Dr.S.V.S Narayana Murty, received the best published paper award under the young researcher category for the year 2019 for the paper titled ''Comparison of prediction capabilities of flow stress by various constitutive equation models for hot deformation of aluminium metal matrix composites'', coauthred by S.V.S. Narayana Murty and Chakravarthy P., during the chapter day celebrations of the Indian Institute of Metals Trivandrum chapter, held on March 25 2023.
• Best oral presentation award for the paper titled 'Effect of grain size on the heat affected zone (HAZ) cracking in nickel base super alloy XH67’ during NMD-ATM 2022 (Nov 13-16), hyderabad
• Best paper award for the paper titled Comparison of prediction models for the hot deformation behaviour of cast Mg-Zn-Y alloy' in the second international conference on recent trends in Metallurgy, Materials science and Manufacturing organised by National Institute of technology Tiruchirappalli, Dec 27-28, 2019.
• Best oral presentation award for 'Effect of fibre orientation on the properties and functional performance of ablative materials for solid rocket motors', in the International conference on emerging trends in materials and manufacturing engineering, organised by NIT Tiruchirappalli
• Best paper award for 'Development, characterisation and qualification of Aerospace Ablative Composites' in National Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology, 2016
• Best paper award for 'Advanced manufacturing processes for Aerospace Ablative composites' in National aerospace manufacturing seminar 2015.
• Best oral presentation award for the technical paper “Formability limit diagrams of sintered P/M preforms of steel” presented in 2nd International symposium for research scholars on Metallurgy, Materials Science and Engineering held at IIT Madras.
• Consecutively Awarded “Academic Proficiency Prize” for the year 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 in National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.

Assessment of machining characteristics of ablative materials - Ongoing

1. Neethu N and  Chakravarthy.P "Recent Advances in TIG welding process" in Recent Advances in Welding, 2020, Edited by  Francisco Jose Gomes Da Silva and Antonio Manuel De Bastos Pereira, Nova Science Publishers
2. P. Neelima, S.V.S. Narayana Murthy, P. Chakravarthy, T.S. Srivatsan, "High Entropy Alloy: Challenges in Commercialization and the Road Ahead" in High Entropy Alloys: Innovations, Advances, and Applications, 2020, edited by T.S. Srivatsan and Manoj Gupta, CRC press
3. Arun D.I., Chakravarthy P., Arockia kumar R., "Smart hydrogels: Theory and applications with particular focus on biomedical sciences" in Advanced materials for emerging applications - Innovations, improvements, inclusion and impact, 2024, edited by T.S Srivatsan, Jimmy Karloopia and Manoj Gupta, Bentham Books

• Shape memory materials
• Flux bounded tungsten inert gas welding process
• Review of the book 'Shape memory materials'
• Neethu N and Chakravarthy.P "Recent Advances in TIG welding process"
• High Entropy Alloys
• Advanced materials for emerging applications, Innovations, Improvement, Inclusion and Impact

Completed

1. Arun D.I. (DoS candidate), Thesis title: Investigations on Electro-Active Shape Memory Polymer Nanocomposites: Polyurethene - Carbon Black/Carbon Nanotube Systems, Graduated in the year 2020.
2. Mohan Kumar L. (DoS Candidate), Thesis title: Investigations on the Critical Parameters Influencing the Properties and Functional Performance of Ablative Composites, Graduated in the year 2021.
3. Rajiv Panda, (DoS) candidate, Thesis title: Synthesis and Deformation Behaviour of 2024 and 2618 Aluminium Alloys and its Composites for Aerosapce Applications

Ongoing

1. Santhosh Kumar (DoS Candidate) - Additive Manufacturing
2. Aishwary Mishra (DoS Candidate) - Additive Manufacturing
3. Vinu Vishwanath (DoS Candidate) - Carbon Carbon Composites
4. Anup Kumar T.M. (Regular Candidate) - Hot Working of Aluminium alloys
5. Bishwajyoti Dutta Majumdar (DoS Candidate) - High energy rate forming
6. Ciju Paul (DoS Candidate) - welding of dissiilar materials
7. Nirmal Ninan (DoS Candidate) - Additive manufacturing of superalloys
8. Muhammed Rijas (DoS Candidate) - Welding and forming of refractory alloys