Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering Department,
Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering,
Pune, India.
I received B.E. in Mechanical Engineering in 2000 and M.E. in Mechanical (Design Engineering) in 2011 from the University of Pune (currently Savitribai Phule Pune University), India. I have received my PhD. (Mechanical Engineering) in December 2021, from Savitribai Phule Pune University, India, under the guidance of Dr. Ajay M. Fulambarkar.
I have been working as a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India, since 2002. I joined as a lecturer in 2002, was promoted to senior-grade lecturer in 2008, assistant professor in 2011, and associate professor in 2016.
At the undergraduate level, I teach subjects like Robotics, Cad Cam automation, Numerical Methods, and Theory of Machine. At the postgraduate level, I teach Design Engineering subjects like Analysis and Synthesis of Mechanisms, Optimization Techniques, Robotics, Computer Aided Design etc.
I have guided 25 projects at the Undergraduate level and 9 projects at the Postgraduate level. I have published 6 research papers in International journals. I have attended 2 International conferences and 3 National conferences. I have published a book and 2 book chapters.
I have been the faculty coordinator of 'Team Automatons,' the institute's robotics club, since 2013. The team participates in 'DD-ROBOCON, ' a national robotics competition.
My research interests include Mechanism synthesis, Robotics, Optimization and Robust Design.