
Academic Background:
BE (Mech) 1984,UVCE; ME (Mech) 1991 & Ph.D, 2004, IISc, Bangalore.
Professional Background
36 and a half years of work experience in URSC, ISRO and superannuated at Level 14
(Scientist/Engr -G) and Index 15 (maximum of scale).
Major Responsibilities.
(a) Mar 2017 to 31Oct 2021 (date of superannuation), Project Director , Spacecraft Docking Experiment (SPADEX) Project, IRS-SSS Program, UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC)
-Overall responsibility of system engineering for the realization of two spacecraft for the first Space Docking Experiment of ISRO including the establishment of specialized test facilities for extensive ground simulation and testing.
(b) Apr 1985 to Mar 2017, Spacecraft Mechanisms Group (SMG), URSC. (About 32 years)
Associate Project Director (Mechanical Systems), SPADEX Project.
Deputy Project Director (Mechanisms) - Resourcesat 2, GSAT 16, GSAT 15, HSP: Service Module
Head, Dynamics and Analysis Section & Advanced Mechanisms Section, SMG.
Analysis, Design and Testing of Deployment Mechanisms for several spacecraft projects.
Technology Development Program on Space Docking and Robotics for Spacecraft Berthing.
International Exposure through ISRO.
Testing of DC motors at M/s Honeywell , North Carolina, USA, 1998.
Team Lead, Testing of Deployment Mechanisms of GSAT-16, Kourou, French Guyana 2014
ISRO Team Member, representing Robotics and Space Docking, ISRO-DLR Workshop,
DLR, Oberpaffenhoffen, Germany, 2019.
R&D projects successfully executed with IISc faculty:
Co-investigator from ISRO for 3 projects with IISc faculty in ISRO-STC Cell technical projects.
Co-authored Technical Publications, Awards, Guest Lectures and Text Book Review.
Journals/Lecture Note/Book : 10, Citations:161, h-index:4 -SCOPUS.
International Conferences & Seminars : 10 and National Conferences and Symposia :18.
Newsletters : 3 , Best Paper Awards : 2 , Guest Lectures: 5, Text Book Review:1.
Additional Responsibilities.
Member, Space Robotics Experiment for Gaganyaan Programme Committee.
Technical Reviewer : ASME-JMD, MMT, Robotica, JST & International/National Conferences.
Evaluator : Promotion of a Principal Research Scientist to Chief Research Scientist from CPDM, IISc.
Peer Committee Member : Multi Agent Robotic System, CAIR , DRDO.
PhD Co-guide : for a colleague from URSC who completed successfully from IISc.
Convenor: Paper Review Committee, Satellite Technology Day-2011, URSC
Zonal Vice-President South: Association of Machines and Mechanisms, 2014-2017.
IRCA : Qualified International Registry of Certified Auditors, ISO 9001-2008
Session Chair :35th ISRO-STC Annual Symposium, IISc, Jan 2019.
Memberships of Professional bodies.
Fellow, Institute of Engineers (India) : F-110856/1
Senior Member, Computer Society Of India: Membership no. 7115.
Life member of 11 other professional bodies.
Chartered Engineer, Institute of Engineers, India.
DST-IISc-TIFAC Vision 2047- Two day consultative meet: Apr 27&28, 2023, Faculty Hall, IISc
Member of the coordination team for the consultative meet.
Panelist for the technical session on Vyom Sutra.