Dr. B B V L Deepak is currently working at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela in the Department of Industrial Design. He received his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the National Institute of Technology- Rourkela in 2010 and 2015 respectively. He has 11 years of research and teaching experience in Manufacturing and Product Design fields. He produced 4-Ph.D. theses and is supervising 4-Ph.D. scholars. He published more than 100 papers in various peer-reviewed journals and conferences along with 1-patent. He has successfully completed three sponsored research projects and currently handling two sponsored research projects in the field of robotics and automatin. He received several national and international awards such as Ganesh Mishra Memorial Award-2019, IEI Young Engineer Award-2018 (Mechanical Engineering field), Early Career Research Award-2017, etc.Dr. M V A Raju Bahubalendruni, currently working as Assistant Professorin the Department of Mechanical engineering at NIT-Puducherry, India. has completed his masters in Machine Design at Andhra University College of Engineering and joined at HCL technologies Bangalore. He worked on several aircraft programmes like c27J, Bombardier, Honda Jet, Bell -407. He completed his PhD degree from National Institute of Technology Rourkela. He is currently an active researcher in the manufacturing and automation domain (Assembly, Disassembly, Industrial Robotics, Human-robot collaboration, Additive manufacturing, Topology Optimization, Advanced cellular structures, Augmented reality/Virtual Reality). He is one of the potential research professionals with more than 11 years of total Academic, Industrial and R&D experience. He has received multiple research grants form (Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST). He has published close to 80 articles in reputed national and international journals and well cited. He hasreceived many BEST-Paper awards and Best reviewer awards by several publishers. He has been awarded with Gold Medal “BRUNDABANSAHU MEMORIAL AWARD” by Institute of Engineers India (IEI-Odisha) in 2016 for his research contribution, received National level (Indian) Young Engineer award -2017 in the mechanical stream by IEI.Prof. Dayal R. Parhi is working in NIT Rourkela as a Professor (HAG). He is currently heading the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has received his Ph.D. in Mobile Robotics field from Cardiff School of Engineering, UK. He has 26 years of research and teaching experience in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence fields. He has guided more than 20 Ph.D. Theses and published more than 300 papers in various journals and conferences along with 3-patents. He has also completed and currently handling several sponsored research projects in the field of robotics.Prof. Bibhuti Bhusan Biswal is currentlyacting as Director of National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya. He is also a Professor (HAG) in the Department of Industrial Design of NIT Rourkela. He has 33 years of research and teaching experience in FMS, CAD/CAM, Robotics fields. He has guided more than 15 Ph.D. Theses and published more than 200 papers in various journals and conferences along with 3-patents/copyrights. He has international collaboration with Loughborough University and Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. He has also completed and currently handling several sponsored research projects in his research field.
