Dr. Nilesh Kumar
Assistant Professor
Contact
- 2008 NERC
- phone (205) 348-1581
Research Areas
Education
- Ph.D., Missouri University of Science & Technology, 2011
- M.E., Indian Institute of Science, 2006
- B.E., National Institute of Technology Karnataka, 2004
Nilesh Kumar is an assistant professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at The University of Alabama. Before this, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University Raleigh and the University of North Texas Denton.
He obtained his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Missouri University of Science & Technology Rolla. A common theme that cuts across all the research work Dr. Kumar has carried out so far is establishing a correlation among processing, microstructure, and mechanical properties of metallic materials used across industries.
He has published so far forty-six (46) papers in peer-reviewed journals, co-authored four (4) books, and contributed four (4) book/handbook chapters. Dr. Kumar is a member of several scientific organizations and has been a reviewer for more than two dozen scientific journals. He is the recipient of the Kent D. Peaslee Junior Faculty Award by the Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) Foundation for 2019–2020. He was awarded the title “AIST Foundation Steel Professor” in 2022 by the AIST Foundation. Dr. Kumar also received the NSF CAREER award in 2024.
Affiliated Areas
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Selected Publications
- S. Alomari, N. Kumar, and K. L. Murty, Serrated yielding in an advanced stainless steel Fe-25Ni-20Cr (wt%), Materials Science and Engineering A 751 (2019) pp. 292 – 302, (2019)
- S. Alomari, N. Kumar, and K. L. Murty, Creep behavior and microstructural evolution of a Fe-20Cr-25Ni (Mass Percent) austenitic stainless steel (Alloy 709) at elevated temperatures, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 50 (2019) pp. 641 – 654, (2019)
- S. Alomari, N. Kumar, and K. L. Murty, Enhanced ductility in dynamic strain aging regime in a Fe-25Ni-20Cr austenitic stainless steel. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 729 (2018) pp. 157-160, (2018)
- Kumar, A. Alomari, and K.L. Murty, Thermally activated deformation of recrystallized Zircaloy-4, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 504 (2018) pp. 41-49, (2018)
- Martinez, N. Kumar, R.S. Mishra, and K.J. Doherty, Microstructural comparison of friction stir welded aluminum alloy 7449 starting from different tempers, Journal of Materials Science, 53 (2018) pp. 9273 – 9286
Awards and Honors
- NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, June 2024
Dr. Kumar's Impact
Innovative UA Research Recognized with NSF CAREER Awards
Four professors at The University of Alabama received one of the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious honors for early-career faculty.