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Brief CV Dr T Asokan is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Design, and currently the Head of the Department 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 and Professor in 2014. 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 currently the national secretary of The Robotics Society. His areas of teaching and research are Robotics, Product design, and Engineering System design. Dr Asokan has published more than 120 papers in International Journals and conferences and has filed 20 patents in India, USA and Singapore. He has supervised 11 Ph.D and 9 MS students and currently supervising 6 Ph.D, 3 MS and 6 dual degree students. He is actively involved in many sponsored research projects with an approximate budget of Rs. 500 lakhs, sponsored by DRDO, ISRO, DST, NRB and other sponsoring agencies. NEWS and Events Prof. Asokan has been invited to deliver key note address at the workshop on Low Cost Medical and Surgical Robotics organised during the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2022 (https://hamlynsymposium.org/events/low-cost-medical-and-surgical-robotics/ ) to be held at the Royal Geographical Society, London from 26th to 29th June Prof. Asokan has been appointed as the Head of the Department of Engineering Design IIT Madras to setup a "Centre of Excellence in Autonomous Systems and Technologies" with an investment of 5 crore over the next 5 years Congratulations to Dr Vijaykumar P for winning the Institute Research Award 2021: Congratulations to Nagamanikandan for succesfully defending his PhD thesis on 18th January. Congratulations to Dr Srikar Annamraju for winning the Institute Research Award 2020: Congratulations to the Following students on their Graduation during the 57th Convocation: Karthik C (PhD) Dharbaneswar S J (PhD) Srikar A (PhD) Sooraj P (MS) Kumar Surjdeo Singh (MS) Vaibhav R (MS)Congratulations to Mr Adarsh Somayaji (Dual Degree Student), for winning the Innovative Student Project Award 2020, instituted by the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), for his Dual Degree Project titled "Design & Analysis of a Variable Stiffness Adaptive Jaw for Robust Grasping".
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VM Thomas Robotics Research and Teaching Laboratory inaugurated on 1st February 2021 (https://ed.iitm.ac.in/VMTRRTLab.html)
New paper accepted for publication :Dharbaneswar S J, Asokan T.,(2021) Contact area based modeling of robotic grasps using deformable solid mechanics, International Journal of Applied Mechanics (accepted), IF: 2.499
Dr Asokan has been invited by Liaoning Technical University, China to deliver a key note address during the First International Symposium on Intelligent Equipment and Robotics to be held at the Liaoning Technical University from 3rd to 5th August 2016
Dr Asokan has been invited (sponsored by Lemelson Foundation) to attend the National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Alliance (NCIIA) annual conference "OPEN 2014" to be held at San Jose, California from 20th to 22nd March 2014. Dr Asokan will participate in a round table discussion to be moderated by Prof. Paul Hudnut, Collarado State University, on building strong educational programs around technology invention and innovation for poverty alleviation and basic human needs.
Indo-Australian Senior Scientist Fellowship: Indian National Science Academy (INSA) has awarded the Indo-Australian Senior Scientist S&T Visiting Fellowship 2012-13 to Dr T. Asokan for conducting advanced research on "Multi-domain robot systems" at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.
Visiting Fellowship: Dr Asokan has been appointed as a Visiting Fellow of the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.