DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Indian Institute Of Technology Madras
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Abhishek Saini

Assistant Professor

410, Machine Design Section

Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

+91 - 44 - 2257 4650

asaini@iitm.ac.in

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  • Dr. Abhishek Saini received his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to joining IIT Madras, he worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Razer (Asia-Pacific) Pte. Ltd., and held postdoctoral research positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, and the Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Laboratory, Singapore.

  • Ultrasonic array, imaging, inversion, and ultrasound tomography, with applications including defect and microstructural characterization, thermal reconstruction, high-resolution imaging, Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE), and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM).
  • Wave propagation and scattering in complex heterogeneous and anisotropic materials.
  • Acoustic and elastic metamaterials for tailored wave control, localization, and enhanced-resolution imaging.
  • Applied AI/ML, explainable AI, Scientific ML for NDE and SHM, spanning fundamental theory to deployable real-world technologies.

  1. - Engineering Leadership Council Award, Engineering Institute Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA, 2024.
  2. - Best Poster Award, “Non-invasive fluid level sensing in pipelines using ultrasound techniques,” Los Alamos National Laboratory summer student symposium, Los Alamos, NM, USA, 2023.
  3. - Star researcher award, Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Laboratory Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2022.
  4. - Best paper presentation, “Oil and Gas Conservation in India”, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited at Indian Institute of Technology Patna India, 2015.

    Current Courses

  • ME3203: Introduction to Machine Design

  1. Abhishek Saini, John Greenhall, Daniel Pereira, Pavel Vakhlamov, Craig Chavez, Dave Zerkle, and Cristian Pantea. "Noninvasive Acoustic Temperature Tomography in Multiphase Materials." NDT & E International (2025).
  2. Lalith S.S. Pillarisetti, Eric Davis, Abhishek Saini, Pavel Vakhlamov, and Cristian Pantea. "Noninvasive fluid-level sensing in pipelines using ultrasonic techniques." IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (2025).
  3. Abhishek Saini, Jinwei fang, Huaigu Tang. "The multi-mode reverse time migration for defect characterization using ultrasonic array." NDT & E International (2025): 103293.
  4. Abhishek Saini, John Greenhall, Cristian Pantea. “On the generalizability of Time-Of-Flight Convolutional Neural network for non-invasive acoustic measurements,” Sensors (2024).
  5. Abhishek Saini, Christopher J.L. Lane, Juan Tu, Honghui Xue, and Zheng Fan. "3D ultrasonic imaging of surface-breaking cracks using a linear array." Ultrasonics (2022).
  6. Abhishek Saini, Maria V. Felice, Zheng Fan, and Christopher JL Lane. "Optimisation of the Half-Skip Total Focusing Method (HSTFM) parameters for sizing surface-breaking cracks." NDT & E International (2020)
  7. Abhishek Saini*, Rao Jing, Jizhong Yang, Madis Ratassepp, and Zheng Fan. "Ultrasonic imaging of irregularly shaped notches based on elastic reverse time migration." NDT & E International 107 (2019).
  8. Sun Zeqing, Shangzi Wu, Abhishek Saini, and Zheng Fan. "Characterizing polycrystalline microstructures by reconstructing grain boundaries and velocity map from ultrasonic surface wave field." Ultrasonics (2024).

  1. Abhishek Saini, and Karali Patra, “An improved valveless micropump with dome-shaped dielectric elastomer diaphragm, pumping chamber and nozzle diffuser as flow control element,” 2024, India, patent number 494002, application number 201631041457.
  2. Lalith S. S. Pillarisetti, Eric Davis, Abhishek Saini, Cristian Pantea, “Method and system for noninvasively measuring fluid levels within a vessel,” 02/26/2024, US Patent Application number 63/557870. (Filed)