• Born in Calcutta (India) on 25 February 1959
  
  
• 1980 Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
  
  
• 1986 Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
  
  
• 2000 Full Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Scientific papers on:

• Robotics
  
  
• Non-linear Dynamics and Chaos
  
  
• Modelling and Control of Flexible Multi-body Mechanical Systems
  
  
• Kinematics of Rigid-body Motions and Mechanisms