Dr. B B V L Deepak is currently working in the Department of Industrial Design at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela. He received his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the NIT Rourkela in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He has 11 years of research and teaching experience in manufacturing and product design fields. He has produced 3 Ph.D. theses and is currently supervising 4 Ph.D. scholars. He has published over 100 papers in various peer-reviewed journals and conferences and holds one patent in his name. He is also currently handling two sponsored research projects in the field of robotics. He received several national and international awards such as Ganesh Mishra Memorial Award-2019, IEI Young Engineer Award-2018, Early Career Research Award-2017, etc.Dr. M V A Raju Bahubalendruni is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical engineering at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Puducherry, India. He completedhis masters in machine design at Andhra University College of Engineering, India. He has industry experience having worked on several aircraft programmes like c27J, Bombardier, Honda Jet, Bell -407. He completed his Ph.D. degree from NIT Rourkela. He is 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 has over 11 years of total academic, industrial and R&D experience. He has received multiple research grants from 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. 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 at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela as a Professor. He is currently heading the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He 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 and holds 3 patents in his name. He has also completed and currently handling several sponsored research projects in the field of robotics.Prof. Bibhuti Bhusan Biswal is currently acting as Director of National Institute of Technology (NIT) 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, and robotics. 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.
