Prof. Dr. M. Kamaraj is currently Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. After completing his Ph.D. at I.I.

T. Madras, he worked as Research Engineer at EWAC Alloys Ltd (Larsen & Toubro Ltd., ) Mumbai. He was also a Research Fellow at Nagaoka University of Technology and STA Fellow at the National Institute of Industrial Safety, Japan. He was a Guest Scientist at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bochum, Germany and a visiting scientist at VSSC, Trivandrum, India. He joined I.I.T Madras, and has more than 25 years teaching, research and industrial experience in the area of mechanical behaviour of materials, welding, surface engineering, and high temperature behavior of materials/welded joints, Tribological behavior of composites and failure analysis of industrial components.

He has a patent approval ( Invention: IN-813918), titled " Highly adhesive nano crystalline diamond coatings on tin coated WC-Co( D/TiN/ Al2O3/ TiCN/WC) tools for industrial applications" He has guided 16 Ph.D and 4 MS scholars and Ph.D thesis examiner for several Institutes and Universities. He has published more than 150 research publication in leading national and international engineering journals. He has published books on Surface Modified Biomedical Titanium Alloys (ISBN: 978-1-60876-581-2 (2010) with Mr. Aravind Vadiraj and Surface Technology with V.M. Radhakrishnan (ISBN: 978-81-224-3960-1) and contributed a chapter on "Microstructure and Wear Studies of Alloyed and Austempered Gray Irons for Automotive Applications" along with Aravind Vadiraj and G.

Balachandran. He was the chairman, Indian Institute of Metals, Chennai Chapter (2009-2010), Chairman, Indian welding Society Chennai centre (2008-2010), Member of ASM international, Chennai chapter (since 2001), and Life member of ISNT, Chennai centre.