Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Innovative Product Design: Select Proceedings of Ipdims 2020 Tapa dura - 2021

Dr. B B V L Deepak is currently working at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, as Head of 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 9 years of research and teaching experience in Manufacturing and Product Design fields. He produced 3 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 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.

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 is 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, 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 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 is currently handling several sponsored research projects in his research field.