Dr. Amit Arora is an Associate Professor of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. He received a B.Tech. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and an M.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 2011. Furthermore, he has been awarded many Awards and Honours, such as the Young Scientist Research Award (2014-2017), Best Poster Award (2015), Best Research Poster Award (2017), and so on. He is a life member of the Materials Research Society of India, the Indian Institute of Metals, and the Indian Institute of Welding. He leads the Advanced Materials Processing Research Group at IIT Gandhinagar, which works in the area of numerical modelling of welding and joining processes, additive manufacturing processes, and friction stir welding and processing including tool wear during FSW, numerical modelling of dissimilar FSW, and mechanical and electrochemical characterization of friction stir surface composites.