Alumni Masterclass | Road to IIT Faculty Position: Insights by Dr. Abhishek Pandey( PhD/CE/2022)
Dr. Abhishek covered faculty eligibility, publications, application timing, and interview preparation. While addressing audience queries about research proposals, PMRF impact, and handling rejection. He emphasized transparency, quality over quantity in publications, and presenting research as a coherent narrative
About the speaker: Dr. Abhishek Pandey (PhD/CE/2022), an alumnus of IIT Gandhinagar, has been recently selected as an Assistant Professor in the civil engineering department of IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. Dr. Abhishek joined IIT Gandhinagar to pursue a PhD after completing his BTech from NIT Patna. He was selected as a start-early PhD fellow in the civil engineering discipline. He was selected for the Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) in 2018 and was the first PMRF of IIT Gandhinagar.
During his PhD, he advanced the understanding of flood flow, sediment and pollutant transport, and three-dimensional hydrodynamics of channel junctions. His expertise includes computational and computational hydraulics. His recent paper “Flow Dynamics and Pollutant Transport at an Artificial Right-angled Open-Channel Junction with a Deformed Bed” was featured in the Editor’s Choice of the ASCE’s Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. He has also briefly worked as an institute post-doctoral fellow (IPDF) at IIT Bombay.