Rate My Professor Ajinkya Baxy

Ajinkya Baxy serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, where he previously worked in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His career trajectory reflects a commitment to advancing research in dynamics and structural mechanics, with expertise in analytical methods including Floquet theory, perturbation methods, and spectral element formulation. Baxy utilizes tools such as Ansys Workbench for modal analysis and focuses on practical applications in mechanical systems.

Baxy's research specializations encompass wave propagation in periodic and curved structures, vibration analysis of rotating and twisted beams, metamaterials for energy harvesting and sound attenuation, broadband sound transmission loss, flexural wave propagation, and artificial neural networks for predicting design parameters in high-speed rail viaducts. Key publications include 'Artificial neural network-based multiple-input multiple-output metamodel for prediction of design parameters for a high-speed rail viaduct' (2023), 'Energy harvesting using the edge-state phenomena' (2023), 'Broadband Sound Transmission Loss in a Corrugated Sound Panel Using Periodic Structure Theory' (2022), 'Flexural wave propagation in periodic MC panels: Spectral Element Formulation' (2022), 'Enhanced attenuation band in active 2D mass-in-mass metamaterial using static output feedback' (2022), '2D in-plane elastic waves in curved-tapered square lattice frame structure' (2021), 'Wave Propagation in Tapered Periodic Curved Meta-Frame Using Floquet Theory' (2021), 'Elastic waves in layered periodic curved beams' (2021), 'Natural frequencies of rotating twisted beams: a perturbation method based approach' (2020), 'Natural frequencies of a rotating curved cantilever beam: A perturbation method-based approach' (2020), and 'Free vibrations of circular curved beams' (2018). His scholarship on Google Scholar has accumulated 125 citations. Additionally, he received the Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant (ANRF-ECRG) for the project 'Design, Development, and Optimization of' a mechanical system, underscoring his contributions to vibrations, finite element analysis, multi-body dynamics, control systems, structural health monitoring, wave propagation, smart materials, and structural dynamics.