Mohammad Shahid Raza

Academic Qualifications

Post Doctoral Fellow: Oct, 2023- Aug, 2025, IRC-Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics,

King Fahd Unversity of Petroleum and Minerals Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Research Area: Additive Manufacturing of Metals and Polymers, Sustainable Manufacturing.

Project Consultant (Temporary): Aug, 2021 -April 2023, Advanced Manufacturing Facility, IIT Kharagpur

Project Topic: Industrial project related to Metal Additive Manufacturing of different components and their validation for applicability.

Ph.D: Aug 2015- May 2023, IIT Kharagpur

Research Topic: Mechanical as well as Laser Forming of Metal Foams. The research was based on both experimental and numerical modelling of the process.

M. Tech: 2013-2015, IIT-ISM Dhanbad,

Research Area: Laser cladding of metal matrix composite coating on steel surface.

My research is broadly based on developing Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, with a focus on Process Monitoring of Advanced Manufacturing Processes and their Numerical Modelling for providing feedback control of the system using data driven approach. Most of my past work as a Research Consultant and as a Post Doc is centered around Addiitve Manufacturing of metallic and composite alloys and their process-parameter-property relationships.

I have extensive research experience on the processing of cellular structures and metal foams (which was also a part of my PhD thesis work) aiming to process lightweight, high-performance materials for aerospace and biomedical applications. By combining experiments, simulations, and data-driven methods, my work seeks to develop smart, adaptive, and sustainable manufacturing systems that can bridge fundamental science and actual industrial applications.

Offcourse, Collaboration is the key for developing such systems and I welcome students and researchers to contact me for any common research interest in these domains.

Keywords related to my research Interests: Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Sustainable Manufactuirng, Additive Manufacturing, Processing of Cellular Structures and Metal Foams, Numerical Modelling of Manufacturing Processes.

Latest Publications

1 Ibrahim Olalekan Lawal, Samir Mekid, Mohammad Shahid Raza, A Critical Review on Feedstock Mixing Strategies, Manufacturing Processes, Applications, and Tribological Properties of Functionally Graded Materials, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2026

2 Ibrahim Olalekan Lawal, Samir Mekid, Mohammad Shahid Raza, A Critical Review on Feedstock Mixing Strategies, Manufacturing Processes, Applications, and Tribological Properties of Functionally Graded Materials, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2026

3 Ibrahim Olalekan Lawal, Samir Mekid, Mohammad Shahid Raza, A Critical Review on Feedstock Mixing Strategies, Manufacturing Processes, Applications, and Tribological Properties of Functionally Graded Materials, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2026

4 Ibrahim Olalekan Lawal, Samir Mekid, Mohammad Shahid Raza, A Critical Review on Feedstock Mixing Strategies, Manufacturing Processes, Applications, and Tribological Properties of Functionally Graded Materials, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2026

6 M.S. Raza, P. Patra, P. Saha, Effect of Addition of CNT in Mitigating Dissociation of B4C and In Situ Formation of TiC on Ti64 Substrate During Laser Cladding Process to Achieve Hard Condensed Coating, 241–256, Trends in Material Processing (AIMTDR-2023 2023), 2026

7 Mohammad Shahid Raza, Partha Saha, Process Monitoring and Numerical Analysis of Mechanism of Laser Forming in Open-Cell Aluminum Foam, 301, Advanced Joining Techniques: Proceedings of the AIMTDR 2023, 2026

8 Gulshad Nawaz Ahmad, Mohammad Shahid Raza, Barun Haldar, Indrajeet Kumar, Nirmal Kumar Singh, Abdullah A. Elfar, Correlating Microstructural and Mechanical Property Alteration with Process Parameters Using Thermal Signature Monitoring of Laser-Welded Inconel 625 Superalloy, 15(12), 1009, Crystals, 2025

9 Datta, Susmita and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Das, Amit Kumar and Saha, Partha and Pratihar, Dilip Kumar, Laser beam welding of NiTinol sheets in butt joint arrangement and optimization of the process using desirability function analysis and metaheuristic techniques, 238, 2080--2093, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, 2024

10 Kundu, Joydeep and Mandal, Santosh and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Saha, Partha, Numerical simulation of KrF excimer laser treatment of unidirectional, plain weaved and 4-Harness Satin weaved CFRP using simplified geometric models and differential thermal conductivity, 168, 109968, Optics & Laser Technology, 2024

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Research Areas

Numerical Modelling of Manufacturing Processes
Processing of Cellular Structures and Metal Foams
Laser Material Processing
Additive Manufacturing
Intelligent Manufacturing using Process Monitoring

Teachings

PG Courses

1 Additive Manufacturing 2 Industrial Engineering

UG Courses

1 Manufacturing Technology

Publications

5 Lawal, I.O., Mekid, S. & Raza, M.S, Role of sintering atmosphere in controlling porosity, microstructure and performance of 3D printed polylactic acid/copper composites, Progress in Additive Manufacturing, 2026 6 Gulshad Nawaz Ahmad, Mohammad Shahid Raza, Barun Haldar, Indrajeet Kumar, Nirmal Kumar Singh, Abdullah A. Elfar, Correlating Microstructural and Mechanical Property Alteration with Process Parameters Using Thermal Signature Monitoring of Laser-Welded Inconel 625 Superalloy, 15(12), 1009, Crystals, 2025

7 Datta, Susmita and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Das, Amit Kumar and Saha, Partha and Pratihar, Dilip Kumar, Laser beam welding of NiTinol sheets in butt joint arrangement and optimization of the process using desirability function analysis and metaheuristic techniques, 238, 2080--2093, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, 2024

8 Kundu, Joydeep and Mandal, Santosh and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Saha, Partha, Numerical simulation of KrF excimer laser treatment of unidirectional, plain weaved and 4-Harness Satin weaved CFRP using simplified geometric models and differential thermal conductivity, 168, 109968, Optics & Laser Technology, 2024

9 Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Mukherjee, Sumanta and Datta, Susmita and Saha, Partha, Multi-sensor-based process monitoring and quality assessment during laser forming of novel titanium foam to prevent cellular structure damage, 120, 595--615, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2024

10 Chekalil, Ismail and Chadli, Redouane and Miloudi, Abdelkader and Ghazi, Abdelkader and Planche, Marie-Pierre and Mekid, Samir and Raza, Mohammad Shahid, Effect of corrosion environments on the mechanical properties of friction stir welded aluminum alloy AA3003, 33, 2353--2364, Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2024

11 Datta, Susmita and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Saha, Partha and Pratihar, Dilip Kumar, Study on mechanical performance of laser-welded NiTinol sheet, 237, 2073--2084, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2023

12 Datta, Susmita and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Muvvala, Gopinath and Saha, Partha and Pratihar, Dilip Kumar, The effect of different laser head angles and shielding gas supply systems to maximize the depth of penetration by minimizing the plasma shielding effect in fiber laser welding of 3-mm thick NiTinol sheet, 283, 170903, Optik, 2023

13 Datta, Susmita and Chakraborty, Rajib and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Saha, Partha and Pratihar, Dilip Kumar, Comparative study on weld characterisation and corrosion performance of laser-welded NiTinol, 28, 792--802, Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, 2023

14 Datta, Susmita and Das, Amit Kumar and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Saha, Partha and Pratihar, Dilip Kumar, Study on laser beam butt-welding of NiTinol sheet and input-output modelling using neural networks trained by metaheuristic algorithms, 32, 104089, Materials Today Communications, 2022

15 Misra, Saurav and Mohanty, Ipsita and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Chakraborty, Rajib and Chatterjee, Pallav and Gopal, Manish and Ponkshe, Shripadraj and Saha, Partha and Kumar, CS, Investigation of IR pyrometer-captured thermal signatures and their role on microstructural evolution and properties of Inconel 625 tracks in DED-based additive manufacturing, 447, 128818, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2022

16 Tyagi, Rashi and Kumar, Shakti and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Tripathi, Ashutosh and Das, Alok Kumar, Experimental study of laser cladding process and prediction of process parameters by artificial neural network (ANN), 29, 3489--3502, Journal of Central South University, 2022

17 Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Datta, Susmita and Saha, Partha, Quasistatic deformation analysis of melt-based molded die-cast open-cell aluminum alloy foam, 23, 24, Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 2022

18 Tyagi, Rashi and Kumar, Shakti and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Tripathi, Ashutosh and Das, Alok Kumar, Experimental Study on Laser Cladding Process and Prediction of Process Parameters Using Artificial Neural Network, 29, 3489--3502, Journal of Central South University, 2022

19 Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Datta, Susmita and Saha, Partha, Micro-mechanical and X-Ray micro-computed tomographical analysis of quasi-static three-point loading behaviour of closed-cell aluminium foam with and without epoxy-bonded aluminium face-sheet, 809, 140907, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2021

20 Ahmad, Gulshad Nawaz and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Singh, NK and Muvvala, Gopinath, Investigating the effect of process parameters on weld pool thermal history and mechanical properties of laser welded Inconel 625 and Duplex stainless steel 2205 dissimilar welds, 248, 168134, Optik, 2021

21 Datta, Susmita and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Das, Amit Kumar and Saha, Partha and Pratihar, Dilip Kumar, Experimental investigations and parametric optimization of laser beam welding of NiTinol sheets by metaheuristic techniques and desirability function analysis, 124, 105982, Optics & Laser Technology, 2020

22 Ahmad, Gulshad Nawaz and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Singh, NK and Kumar, Hemant, Experimental investigation on Ytterbium fiber laser butt welding of Inconel 625 and Duplex stainless steel 2205 thin sheets, 126, 106117, Optics & Laser Technology, 2020

23 Raza, MS and Datta, Susmita and Saha, Partha, Thermal and morphological analysis of the interaction effect of different assist gases with gas-filled closed-cell aluminium foam during laser cutting process, Proc IMechE Part B: J Engineering Manufacture, 2020

24 Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Datta, Susmita and Gopinath, Muvvala and Saha, Partha, Monitoring and analysis of melt-assisted deformation behavior of 304L stainless steel during multipass laser forming process using IR pyrometer and laser-based displacement sensor, Optics and Laser Technology, 2020

25 Chakraborty, Rajib and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Datta, Susmita and Saha, Partha, Synthesis and characterization of nickel free titanium--hydroxyapatite composite coating over Nitinol surface through in-situ laser cladding and alloying, 358, 539--550, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2019

26 Chakraborty, Rajib and Datta, Susmita and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Saha, Partha, A comparative study of surface characterization and corrosion performance properties of laser surface modified biomedical grade nitinol, 469, 753--763, Applied Surface Science, 2019

27 Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Das, Sankha Shuvra and Tudu, Parimal and Saha, Partha, Excimer laser cleaning of black sulphur encrustation from silver surface, 113, 95--103, Optics & Laser Technology, 2019

28 Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Datta, Susmita and Bule, Bhupendra and Saha, Partha, Parametric study of laser cutting of carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) and the effect of fibre orientation on cutting quality, 5, 202--212, Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies, 2019

29 Datta, Susmita and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Saha, Partha and Pratihar, DK, Effects of process parameters on the quality aspects of weld-bead in laser welding of NiTinol sheets, 34, 648--659, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 2019

30 Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Datta, Susmita and Vivekanand, Kumar and Saha, Partha, Surface modification of high-carbon steel using fiber laser and its thermal, microstructural and tribological analysis, 28, 1873--1883, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2019

31 Datta, Susmita and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Saha, Partha and Pratihar, Dilip Kumar, Correction to: Effects of Heat Input on Weld-Bead Geometry, Surface Chemical Composition, Corrosion Behavior and Thermal Properties of Fiber Laser-Welded Nitinol Shape Memory Alloy, 28, 3816--3816, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2019

32 Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Datta, Susmita and Singh, Jogender and Saha, Partha, Fibre laser cutting of thick closed cell aluminium foam: morphological analysis and its parametric optimisation, 8, 279--297, International Journal of Precision Technology, 2019

33 Datta, Susmita and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Kumar, Sunny and Saha, Partha, Exploring the possibility of dissimilar welding of NiTi to Ti using Yb-fiber laser, 4, 614--625, Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies, 2018

34 Datta, Susmita and Das, Sankha Shuvra and Raza, Mohammad Shahid, Theoretical Modelling and Experimental Analysis of Corner Profile Geometry in Wire Electro Discharge Machining, 153, Recent Trends in Engineering and Technology (NCRTET-2017), 2018

35 Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Hussain, Manowar and Kumar, Vikash and Das, Alok Kumar, In situ production of hard metal matrix composite coating on engineered surfaces using laser cladding technique, 26, 76--83, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2017

36 Kumar, Vikash and Hussain, Manowar and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Das, Alok Kumar and Singh, NK, Fiber laser welding of thin nickel sheets in air and water medium, 42, 1765--1773, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2017

37 Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Mukherjee, Sumanta and Datta, Susmita and Saha, Partha, Multi-Sensor Thermomechanical Process Monitoring and Quality Assessment of Laser Formed Open-Cell Titanium Foam, Available at SSRN 4192529

1 M.S. Raza, P. Patra, P. Saha, Effect of Addition of CNT in Mitigating Dissociation of B4C and In Situ Formation of TiC on Ti64 Substrate During Laser Cladding Process to Achieve Hard Condensed Coating, 241–256, Trends in Material Processing (AIMTDR-2023 2023), 2026 2 Mohammad Shahid Raza, Partha Saha, Process Monitoring and Numerical Analysis of Mechanism of Laser Forming in Open-Cell Aluminum Foam, 301, Advanced Joining Techniques: Proceedings of the AIMTDR 2023, 2026

3 Ahmad, Gulshad Nawaz and Padman, Jishnu and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Kumar, Ashish and Singh, Nirmal Kumar, Analyzing the effect of tool pin design and process parameters on the microstructural and mechanical properties of Friction Stir Welded 6061 Aluminium alloy, 377, 012059, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2018

4 Datta, Susmita and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Saha, Partha and Pratihar, Dilip Kumar, Effects of line energy on mechanical properties, corrosion and shape memory behavior of laser-welded NiTinol joints, 51388, V004T03A056, International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, 2018

5 Chakraborty, Rajib and Datta, Susmita and Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Saha, Partha, Improvement of Ionic Bonding Strength and Electrochemical Corrosion Resistance of Hydroxyapatite-Calcium Phosphate Pulsed Electrochemically Deposited In-Situ Coating Through Hydroxyl Ion Treatment, 51357, V001T05A015, International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, 2018

6 Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Datta, Susmita and Singh, Jogender and Saha, Partha, Fibre laser cutting of thick closed cell aluminium foam, 400--403, Proc. 10th Int. Conf. Prec. Meso, Micro Nano Eng, 2017

7 Raza, Mohammad Shahid and Datta, Susmita and Singh, Jogender and Saha, Partha, Fibre laser cutting of thick closed cell aluminium foam, 400--403, Proc. 10th Int. Conf. Prec. Meso, Micro Nano Eng, 2017