Distinguished Lecture Series : Robotics to Rural : Innovative Teaching and Research Approaches

Prof. Subir Kumar Saha, a 1983 Mechanical Engineering graduate from RE College (Now NIT), Durgapur, India, completed his M. Tech from IIT Kharagpur, India, and Ph. D from McGill University, Canada. Upon completion of his Ph. D, he joined Toshiba Corporation’s R&D Center in Japan. After 4-years of work experience in Japan, he has been with IIT Delhi since 1996.

He is actively engaged in teaching, research, and technology transfer. He completed sponsored projects and consultancies worth more than Rs. 8 crores (~ USD1.2 million). Prof. Saha established the Mechatronics Laboratory at IIT Delhi in 2001. As recognition of his international contributions, Prof. Saha was awarded the Humboldt Fellowship in 1999 by the AvH Foundation, Germany, and the Naren Gupta Chair Professorship at IIT Delhi in 2010. He has been also a visiting faculty at IIT Madras and short term researcher at Mcgill University, Canada, Monash University, Australia, and University of Verona, Italy. Prof. Saha has written several books. A text book on “Introduction to Robotics” published by McGraw-Hill in India and Singapore was also translated in Mexican Spanish. He has also written three course booklets on “Robotics” for IGNOU, New Delhi. To make learning the subject of robotics fun, a software called RoboAnalyzer was developed under his supervision and distributed free through www.roboanalyzer.com. He has co-authored two more specialized books with two of his ex-Ph. D students, 1) “Dynamics of Tree-type Robotics Systems” supported with ReDySim (Recursive Dynamics Simulator) software; and 2) “Dynamics and Balancing of Multibody Systems.” Both were published by Springer. He has more than 200 research publications in reputed journals/conference proceedings, and delivered more than 160 invited/keynote lectures in India and abroad.