Prof. Dilip Kumar Pratihar

Indian Institute of Technology, India

Email:dkpra@mech.iitkgp.ernet.in

Qualifications

2000  Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, India

1994  M.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, Regional Engineering College (National Institute of Technology), India

1988  BE(Hons.) Mechanical Engineering, Regional Engineering College (National Institute of Technology), India

Publications (Selected)

1. Gupta, P., Pratihar, D. K., & Deb, K. (2025). Dynamic performance evaluation of evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms for gait cycle optimization of a 25-DOFs NAO humanoid robot. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 99, 102144.
2. Singh, A. K., Mahata, A., Nath, A. K., Pratihar, D. K., & Choudhury, A. R. (2025). Thermal stress and crack mitigation in additive manufacturing of tungsten carbide with preheating: An application of analytical modeling with real-time thermal signal feedback. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 148, 330-344.
3. Kumar, V., & Pratihar, D. K. (2025). Biomechanical material selection for ankle-foot prosthetics: an ensemble MCDM-FEA framework: V. Kumar, DK Pratihar. International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM), 1-35.
4. Nahak P, Pratihar DK, Deb AK. Tomato maturity stage prediction based on vision transformer and deep convolution neural networks. International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems. 2025 Feb;21(1):61-78.
5. Singh, A. K., Nath, A. K., Pratihar, D. K., & Choudhury, A. R. (2024). Development and performance of additively manufactured Tungsten carbide tool insert: An application of additive manufacturing towards flexible and customized machining. Tribology International, 197, 109780.
6. Gupta, P., Pratihar, D. K., & Deb, K. (2024). Analysis and optimization of gait cycle of 25-dof NAO robot using particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithms. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 21(02), 2350011.
7. Acharya BR, Sethi A, Saha P, Pratihar DK. High aspect ratio shaped microtool fabrication using sheet-EDG. Materials and Manufacturing Processes. 2024 Feb 17;39(3):427-39.
8. Acharya, B. R., Sethi, A., Das, A. K., Saha, P., & Pratihar, D. K. (2023). Multi-objective optimization in electrochemical micro-drilling of Ti6Al4V using nature-inspired techniques. Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 38(15), 1942-1954.
9. Datta, S., Raza, M. S., Saha, P., & Pratihar, D. K. (2023). Study on mechanical performance of laser-welded NiTinol sheet. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 237(13), 2073-2084.
10. Jaypuria, S., Bondada, V., Gupta, S. K., Pratihar, D. K., Chakrabarti, D., & Jha, M. N. (2023). Prediction of electron beam weld quality from weld bead surface using clustering and support vector regression. Expert Systems with Applications, 211, 118677.
11. Singh, A. K., Sadhu, A., Das, A. K., Pratihar, D. K., & Choudhury, A. R. (2022). An approach towards energy and material efficient additive manufacturing: Multi-objective optimization of stellite-6 deposition on SS304. Optics & Laser Technology, 148, 107799.
12. Singh, A. K., Bal, K. S., Dey, D., Das, A. K., Pal, A. R., Pratihar, D. K., & Choudhury, A. R. (2021). Experimental investigation and parametric optimization for minimization of dilution during direct laser metal deposition of tungsten carbide and cobalt powder mixture on SS304 substrate. Powder Technology, 390, 339-353.
13. Das, D., Das, A. K., Pratihar, D. K., & Roy, G. G. (2021). Prediction of residual stress in electron beam welding of stainless steel from process parameters and natural frequency of vibrations using machine-learning algorithms. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 235(11), 2008-2021.
14. Das, A. K., & Pratihar, D. K. (2021). Solving engineering optimization problems using an improved real-coded genetic algorithm (IRGA) with directional mutation and crossover. Soft Computing-A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies & Applications, 25(7).
15. Deshmukh, D., Pratihar, D. K., Deb, A. K., Ray, H., & Bhattacharyya, N. (2020, December). Design and development of intelligent pesticide spraying system for agricultural robot. In International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (pp. 157-170). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
16. Das, A. K., Nikum, A. K., Krishnan, S. V., & Pratihar, D. K. (2020). Multi-objective Bonobo Optimizer (MOBO): an intelligent heuristic for multi-criteria optimization. Knowledge and Information Systems, 62(11), 4407-4444.
17. Banerjee, S., Jenamani, M., & Pratihar, D. K. (2020). A survey on influence maximization in a social network. Knowledge and Information Systems, 62(9), 3417-3455.

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