Professor Asokan Thondiyath received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the IIT Madras, in the year 2000. He received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Calicut University. He joined IIT Madras as Assistant Professor in the year 2006. He was a Stanford-India biodesign fellow in 2009 and has completed a post doctoral fellowship in medical device development at the Stanford University. 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.

Professor C. Balaji (1990 -BE., College of Engineering, Guindy; 1992-MTech, IIT Madras; 1995- PhD, IIT Madras) is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the IIT Madras. He worked with NIT Trichy and NIOT, Chennai before joining the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras in 1998. He has held visiting positions at IISc Bangalore and University of Colorado. His research and teaching interests lie in thermodynamics, thermal engineering, and optimization of energy systems.

Professor R. Krishna Kumar received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras. His areas of teaching and research are advanced non-linear finite element analysis, vehicle dynamics, tyre mechanics, automotive structures, biomedical signal and image processing. He is an Indian National Academy of Engineers fellow.

Professor Palaniappan Ramu received his PhD. in Aerospace Engineering from University of Florida, Gainesville. Prior to joining the faculty of the department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras in December 2009, he had stints at University of Notre Dame and the Caterpillar Champaign Simulation Center, Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Palaniappan Ramu has research interests in reliability/risk based design, treatment of uncertainties and optimization. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of Design for X, Optimization, Finite Element Analysis, probabilistic and statistical techniques in engineering designs.

Mr.K.Rajashekaran is a Junior Scientist in Advanced Research School for Technology and Product Simulation R&D lab of CIPET. Currently he works on GREET (Green Transport Network Project), DCPC, Govt. of India funded project from University of Toronto, Canada. He completed postgraduation in CAD/CAM from Anna University, Chennai. Before joining CIPET, he worked as a Senior Lead Engineer in FLSmidth, Chennai and also served as Senior Lecturer in Dr. Mahalingam College of engineering and Technology, Pollachi, for few years. Currently, he works on various R&D projects sponsored by DST and DCPC. He also delivers lectures for Post-Graduation programmes in areas of CAD/CAM in CIPET and does technical consultancy activities in the area of reverse engineering in ARSTPS, CIPET.

Mr. Ramesh S. Pudale is focused on introducing Autodesk's 3D Design products to the next generation of architects, engineers and designers. He has been with Autodesk as the Education Solutions Manager. He is Driving compelling programs to influence the design pedagogy across the secondary market and post-secondary market in India. He is supporting in delivering the right curricula for the academia to drive Autodesk initiatives in the MFG segment.

Professor Sandipan Bandyopadhyay received his Ph.D. and Masters degree from IISc Bangalore and has a Masters degree from University of Pennsiylvania. Before joining the Department of Engineering Design at IIT Madras in 2007, he worked for GM-India Science lab. His research and teaching interests lie in mechanisms, robotics and product design.

Professor Sankara J. Subramanian completed his B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras and received his Ph. D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. His Areas of Interest are Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Digital Image Correlation, Constitutive Behaviour of Solders and Bamboo Bicycles. Before joining IIT Madras , he was with IBM, Intel and Medtronic, USA.

Professor Saravana Kumar received his PhD. from IIT Kanpur in 2004. He was an Assistant Professor at IIT Guwahati before joining the faculty of Engineering Design, IIT Madras in December 2008.
In general his research aims at development of representational and computational tools for virtual and physical prototyping applied to arrive at solutions to design problems. Specific research areas include CAD and 3D data acquisition technologies, Rapid Prototyping, Bio-inspired routes for various inverse design and optimization problems.
He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of functional and conceptual design, computer aided design, optimization and rapid product development.

Dr. Savio Sebastian received his doctorate in contact mechanics from Imperial College London. He did his BE and ME, in mechanical engineering, from NIT Calicut and Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He worked as a scientist at the ISRO Satellite Centre for over 20 years and was with GE Plastics R&D and General Motors R&D for 12 years. Presently he is a consultant to GE Global Research, Bangalore. His current interests are in the areas of tribology, precision engineering, mechanical testing, biomimetics, astronomy and the science of musical instruments.

Mr.P.Sreedhar is a Technical Officer (R&D) in Advanced Research School for Technology and Product Simulation (ARSTPS) R&D - product development of CIPET. He works on various Govt. sponsored R&D projects funded by Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He completed his postgraduation in Advanced Manufacturing Technology from University of Manchester. Before joining CIPET, he was working as a Mechanical Engineer in MRF Tyres, Chennai. He is currently working on various research projects in areas of Biomechanics, Biomaterials, Rapid Prototyping, CAD & FEA. He also delivers lectures, guide post graduate students projects in CAD/CAM areas and does technical consultancy activities in the areas of rapid prototyping in ARSTPS, CIPET.

Professor Srikanth Vedantam received his Ph.D from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his M. S. in Pennsylvania State University and B.Tech. at IIT Madras. He worked as Assistant Professor in National University of Singapore, Mechanical Engineer in General Electrical Global Research in U.S.A, before joining Department of Engineering design, IIT Madras in 2010. His research interests are in the areas of Design using novel materials, mechanical behaviour and constitutive modelling of materials, wetting, microstructure evolution.

Professor Subir Kumar Saha, a 1983 mechanical engineering graduate from the RE College (Now NIT), Durgapur, India, completed his M. Tech from IIT Kharagpur, India, and Ph.D from McGill University, Canada. Upon completion of his Ph.D, he joined Toshiba Corporation's R&D Center in Japan in 1991. Presently, he is the Naren Gupta Chair professor at IIT Delhi. His main research contribution is the formulation of dynamics modelling using the DeNOC matrices, which led to two (RoboAnalyzer and ReDySim) software meant for industrial and walking robots, and closed-loop mechanisms. For his international contributions, he was awarded Humboldt Fellowship in 1999 by the AvH Foundation, Germany. Prof. Saha has written a text book on "Introduction to Robotics" (McGraw-Hill), and two specialized books on dynamics by Springer. His two key interests are: 1) How to make engineering education fun through the building of robots for competitions (RoCK-BEE concept); and 2) Convert rural problems into research activities (MuDRA concept).

Mr. Syed Mubasheer Ali is a Mechanical Engineer from M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. He has a Patent for his automobile design project which also won the Engineering Design National Award for the year 1997 instituted by the Indian Society for Technical Education(ISTE), IIT Campus, New Delhi.His company, D-ESPAT Pvt Ltd, provides DFMA software Sales, Support ,Consultancy and Training on DFMA to academic institutions and industrial clients, for users from different settings in New Product Design / Development, VA/VE, Sourcing & Cost benchmarking to assist with "What-If" & "Should -Be cost initiatives" for vendor supplied/In house manufactured parts and sub-assemblies.