Uma Maheswara Rao Seelam

Dr. Seelam is an assistant professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal, India. He received his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Metals (2002), M.Tech from the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at IIT(BHU), Varanasi (2004) and PhD  from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA (2010). After working briefly in TriQuint Semiconductor Company in Florida, USA, he moved to the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan for his post-doctoral fellowship in 2012. He spent 3 years at NIMS working on the rare-earth permanent magnets. He returned to the US in 2016 as a Specialist at EAG Labs at Syracuse, New York. He joined NIT Warangal as a regular faculty in April 2018. His research interests are rare-earth permanent magnets, nonequilibrium processing, multi-scale correlative characterization of materials and recently, machine learning in physical metallurgy.