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Asokan

Brief CV

Dr T Asokan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Design at IIT Madras . He completed his B.Tech. and M.Tech. in mechanical engineering from Calicut University. Dr Asokan received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in the year 2000. His area of specialization was electro hydraulic controls for robotic applications. He then spent six years as a researcher at the Robotics Research Center, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore working in the area of mechatronic systems and robotics. He was instrumental in developing the Remotely Operated Underwater vehicle and a 7-axis underwater manipulator at NTU, Singapore. Prior to this, he spent 3 years in DRDO as a Scientist. He joined IIT Madras as Assistant Professor in the year 2006 and was promoted as Associate Professor in 2009. He was awarded the Stanford-India biodesign fellowship by the Stanford University, USA in 2009 and has completed a post doctoral fellowship in medical device development at the Stanford University. Dr. Asokan is  a visiting Fellow of the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is a member of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Sectional Committee on Industrial and Production Automation Systems and Robotics (PGD 18). His areas of teaching and research are Robotics, Product design, and Engineering System design. Dr Asokan has published more than 65 papers in International Journals and conferences and has filed 5 patents in India and Singapore. He is supervising 6 Ph.D, 3 MS and 4 M.Tech. students at present. He is actively involved in many sponsored research projects with an approximate budget of Rs. 250 lakhs, sponsored by DRDO, ISRO, DST, NRB and other sponsoring agencies.

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