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Dr. Nelson Muthu
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
IIT Guwahati
Guwahati - 781039, India


Dr. Nelson Muthu is a product of three well-known universities: IIT Guwahati where he did his B.Tech in 2008, IIT Bombay and Monash University where he completed his PhD, in 2015, on application of element-free Galerkin method for linear elastic fracture mechanics problems. After his PhD, he has worked at Biomedical Engineering and Technology incubation Centre (BETiC), IIT Bombay on medical device innovation from Dec'15 to July'17. He was a visiting faculty at Sardar Patel College of Engineering (SPCE), Mumbai where he taught 'Fracture Mechanics' to masters students for one semester. Parallely, he also worked on structural health monitoring project which involved detecting cracks in beam like structures.

He has corporate experience as an analyst at Global Analytics, Chennai from July'08-July'10, where he learnt predictive analytics using statistical modelling techniques.