Professor  
Dept. of Engineering Design  
Indian Institute of Technology Madras  
Chennai, India  
Dr. Palaniappan Ramu holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical (Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai) and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (University of Florida, Gainesville). Prior to coming to the IIT Madras, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame and as an optimization engineer at the Caterpillar Champaign Simulation Center, Urbana-Champaign. He has been on the faculty of the department of Engineering Design at the IIT Madras since December 2009. He heads the Advanced Design, Optimisation and Probabilistic Techniques Laboratory (ADOPT)
His research interests are provided in a snapshot below: