Rishi Parvanda

Rishi Parvanda has submitted his PhD thesis on the topic “Development of a Rapid Tooling (RT) technique for manufacturing Electric Discharge Machining (EDM) electrodes using low melting point alloy (LMPA)” from BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, India. During this project, he gained experience in different AM techniques and specifically worked on the 3D printing of LMPA using FDM. He has also utilized different AM techniques to make the EDM electrodes using the rapid tooling path.

He has published research papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented papers at international conferences. His research interests lie in rapid tooling, additive manufacturing, and integration of AI/ML in manufacturing (Smart Manufacturing) concerning Industry 4.0.

He has combined experience of 4 plus years in teaching and industry. He has done his M-Tech from NIT Warangal, specializing in computer-integrated manufacturing. His M-tech work is on the ‘Optimization of machining parameters for turning Niobium-C103 alloy’. He has a B-Tech in mechanical engineering from RGPV, University, Bhopal. He likes playing badminton, listening to music, swimming, watching cricket and tennis.

2019 – 2024 PhD Thesis submitted

Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus.

2012 – 2014 MTech Computer Integrated Manufacturing

National Institute of Technology, Warangal.

2008 – 2012 BE Mechanical

Oriental Institute of Science and Technology, Bhopal

March 2024 to Present

Assistant Professor, Smart Manufacturing, NAMTECH, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Aug 2019 – Feb 2024

Research scholar and teaching assistant, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India

July 2018 – June 2019

Technical engineer at lead production industry, Korba, C.G., India

2017 – 2018

Part-time educator in online teaching platform, Unacademy, India

July 2014 – May 2018

Assistant Professor, Mechanical engineering department, Mumbai University aft. Institute, India

Parvanda, R., Kala, P. (2023). “Trends, opportunities, and challenges in the integration of the additive manufacturing with Industry 4.0.” Progress in Additive Manufacturing, Vol. 8, pp. 587–614.
Parvanda, R.and Kala, P. (2022), “Process window identification for 3D printing low melting point alloy (L.M.P.A.) using fused deposition modelling (FDM)”, Rapid Prototyping Journal, Vol. 28 No. 10, pp. 2043-2056.
Parvanda, R., Kala, P. and Sharma, V. (2021). “Bibliometric Analysis-Based Review of Fused Deposition Modeling 3D Printing Method (1994–2020)”. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing ahead of print.
Parvanda, R. and Kala, P. (2023). “Experimental investigation into depositing low melting point alloy utilising fused deposition (FDM) modelling technique”—29th International Conference on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials. Date: 06-08 September 2023 Venue: IIT Tirupati, A.P., India.
Singh, Urvashi and Singh, Aditya and Fernandes, Leroy and Noronha, Olinda and Parvanda, Rishi, “Design and Fabrication of Staircase Climber for Physically Challenged Person” (December 21, 2017). International Conference on Advances in Thermal Systems, Materials and Design Engineering (A.T.S.M.D.E. 2017),

Worked as SRF/JRF in Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India, sponsored project ‘Development of conductive FDM based rapid tooling for EDM electrode fabrication: application in medical implant manufacturing’ (Feb 2020- Feb 2023) under the PI – Dr. Prateek Kala at BITS Pilani, Pilani campus, India. (Grant No. CRG/2019/001320).