Presentation title: Process Modelling In Steelmaking: Past, Present And Future

Professor Dipak Mazumdar, a distinguished Alumnus of NIT Jamshedpur, has been teaching and conducting research at IIT Kanpur for over 35 years. He was a former chairperson of the Dept of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur and held the distinguished INAE Chair and the Ministry of Steel Chair professorship successively during the period, 2009-2017. Professor Mazumdar has coauthored three books, written book chapters and over one hundred seventy-five scientific articles in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) as well as the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), and recipient of fifteen national and international awards, including three distinguished educator/teacher awards from INAE, IIM and IIT Kanpur. Prof. Mazumdar has been working as a consultant for more than a dozen steel and refractory industries in the country for over two decades. He has superannuated in 2023 and is currently continuing at IIT Kanpur as an Emeritus Fellow.