Faculty & Lab Incharge
Dr. Ekta Singla is presently working as Associate Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Ropar. Prior to this, she was working as Senior Project Engineer at IIT Kanpur. She has experienced one year post-doctoral research at Institute de Systems Intelligence et de Robotics (ISIR), UPMC, Paris, France, in the area of Evolutionary Design. Her PhD from IIT Kanpur covered the study, analysis and development of customized manipulators for cluttered environments. During her PhD, she visited Technical University, Berlin, Germany, as a visiting research student for a project on rehabilitation.
Profiles: ResearchGate — Google Scholar — LinkedIn
Post-Doc Fellows
Name: Dr. Abhishek Rudra Pal
Program: Post Doctoral Fellowship
Duration: 2020 – present
PhD Students
Name: Anubhav Dogra
Program: Direct PhD
Duration: Dec. 2016 — Present
Research Direction: Optimal Design of Modules for Reconfigurable Manipulators.
Interests and Skills: Design, Serial Manipulators, Design Optimization, Topology Optimization, CAD, CAE, Robotics Operating System (ROS), etc.
Email: 2016mez0019@iitrpr.ac.in
Profiles: ResearchGate — Google Scholar — LinkedIn — Website
Name: Sakshi Gupta
Program: PhD
Duration: Dec. 2016 — Present
Research Direction: Design of Exoskeleton for Upper Body Rehabilitation.
Interests and Skills: Kinematic Synthesis, Optimal Exoskeleton Design, CAD, etc.
Email: 2016mez0024@iitrpr.ac.in
Profiles: ResearchGate — Google Scholar
Name: Ashwani Kushwaha
Program: Ext. PhD (also working as Senior Principle Scientist at CSIR-CMERI)
Duration: Dec. 2016 — Present.
Research Direction: Robotic Assistance in Agriculture
Interest and Skills: Machine Design, Manufacturing, Machine Tools, Industrial Engineering and Robotics, etc.
Profile: CSIR-CMERI
Name: Vishal Agarwal
Program: PhD
Duration: — Present
Research Direction: Active Camouflage Robotic Skins
Interests and Skills:
Master Students
Name: Neeraj Chitre
Program: M.Tech.
Duration: 2020 — Present
Research Direction: Modular Mobile Manipulator
Interests and Skills: Robotics, Multi-Body-Dynamics, Soldiworks, ROS, Matlab etc.
Profile: LinkedIn — ResearchGate