Education
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Ph. D. (2010) Mechanical Engineering - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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M. Sc. Eng. (2005) Mechanical Engineering - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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B. E. (2002) Mechanical Engineering - J. N. T. University, A.P., India
Professional Experience
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Assistant Professor (Since May, 2012), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
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Research associate (Jan, 2011 - April, 2012), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Research Interest
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Inverse Problems
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Biomechanics
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Dynamics
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Compliant mechanisms
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Topology optimization
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Nonlinear finite element methods
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MEMS
Honors/Awards/Fellowships/Recognition
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The second best paper award in IEEE Transactions on Robotics for the year 2010.
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Travel grant(s)
by Department of Science & Technology (DST), India, to present research paper at “Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium, Joao Pessoa, Brazil”, 2010
Referred Journals:
1. A. N. Reddy and G. K. Ananthasuresh, A numerical approach to determine the sufficiency of given boundary data sets for uniquely estimating interior elastic properties, Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering, Vol. 20 (7), 1057-1077, 2012
2. A. N. Reddy N. Maheshwari, D. K. Sahu and G. K. Ananthasuresh, Miniature compliant grippers with vision-based force sensing, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 26 (5), 867-877, 2010 (Recognized with the second best paper award for the papers published in 2010 in this journal)
3. A. N. Reddy and G. K. Ananthasuresh, On computing the forces from the noisy displacement data of an elastic body, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering , Vol. 76 (11), 1645-1677, 2008
Conference Proceedings:
1. A. Patil and A. N. Reddy, Design and Development of Energy Harvester for Low Frequency Vibrations, 12th International Conference on Vibration Problems, IIT Guwahati, India, December, 2015 (Accepted)
2. A. Mali, K. Kalita and A. N. Reddy, Solution to Linear Time Periodic Dynamical System with Application to Electrical Machines, 12th International Conference on Vibration Problems, IIT Guwahati, India, December, 2015 (Accepted)
3. S. Singh, A. N. Reddy and D. Sharma, Topology Optimization of Low Frequency Structures with Application to Vibration Energy Harvester, 12th International Conference on Vibration Problems, IIT Guwahati, India, December, 2015 (Accepted)
4. P. K. Challa, A. Meena and A. N. Reddy, A Compact Bidirectional Bistable Electrothermal Switch, 2nd International and 14th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms, IIT Kanpur, India, December, 2015 (In review)
5. A. N. Reddy and G. K. Ananthasuresh, A criterion for the number of boundary data sets needed for estimating interior elastic properties, Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization Symposium, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, August, 2010
6.. N. Maheshwari, A. N. Reddy, D. K. Sahu and G. K. Ananthasuresh, Miniature compliant grippers with force-sensing, 14th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms Conference, NIT, Durgapur, India, December, 2009
7. A. N. Reddy S. Hegde and G. K. Ananthasuresh, Mechanical characterization of micron sized objects using vision-based sensing and inverse problem solution procedure, International conference on multiscale modeling and simulation, IISc, Bangalore, India, January, 2008
8. A. N. Reddy, Improvements to vision-based computational force sensing, National conference of research scholars in mechanical engineering, IIT Kanpur, India, March, 2007
UG Courses taught/teaching
ME 223 - Solid Mechanics - II (2014, 2015)
ME 101 - Engineering Mechanics (2015) (with Dr. S. S. Gautam)
ME 314 - Design of Machine Elements (2015) (with Prof. K. S. R. K. Murthy)
PG Courses taught/teaching
ME 541 - Continuum Mechanics (2012 - 2014)
ME 682 - Nonlinear Finite Element Methods (2013)
Lab courses
ME 315 - Mechanical Engineering Laboratory - II (Theory of Machines) (2012)
ME 214 - Machine Drawing (2014)
ME - 110 Workshop (2013)
Online Courses
NPTEL Course on Continuum Mechanics (to be uploaded)
Short term course coordinated:
AICTE sponsered QIP short course on Theory and Applications of Finite Element Analysis with Prof. K. S. R. K. Murthy
Conference organization:
Ph.D
M. Tech. Students
Mr. Nishikant Marutimane (M. Tech. in Machine Design)
Project: Development of Finite Element Analysis for Fluid Structure interaction Problem
Ms. Priyam Srivastava (M. Tech. in Machine Design)
Project: Design and Development of Miniaturised Vibtration Energy Harvester
Mr. Ginto Devassykutty (M. Tech. in Computational Mechanics) (Co-advising with Dr. Karuna Kalita)
Project: Solution of Linear Time Periodic Dynamics with Application to Heart Dynamics
B. Tech. Students
Mr. V. Santosh Kumar and Mr. B. Samba Murthy
Project: Design and Development of Walking Mechanism for Cotton Plucking Robot
Mr. G. Sudheer Kumar and R. Mallikarjuna Naik
Project: Design and Development of Articulating Arm for Scanning and Plucking of Cotton
Past M. Tech. Students:
Mr. Prathamesh Raut (M. Tech. in Computational Mechanics, 2013-2014)
Project: Solution to Inverse Elasticity Problem in the Framework of Finite Element Analysis
Mr. Surendra Singh (M. Tech. in Machine Design, 2013-2014) (Co-advisor: Dr. Deepak Sharma)
Project: Topology Optimization of Structural Stiffness and Structural Frequency
Mr. Neetin Bhusare (M. Tech. in Machine Design, 2013-2014) (Co-advisor: Dr. Karuna Kalita)
Project: Stability Analysis of Time Varying Dynamic Systems
Mr. Ashish Patil (M. Tech. in Machine Design, 2014-2015)
Project: Design and Development of Miniaturised Vibration Energy Harvester
Mr. Rajdeep Alawekar (M. Tech. in Machine Design, 2014-2015)
Project: Application of Topology Optimization for Minimizing Structural Dynamic Deflections
Mr. Akshay Mali (M. Tech. in Machine Design, 2014-2015) (Co-advisor: Dr. Karuna Kalita)
Project: Solution of Linear Time Periodic Dynamical System with Application to Electrical Machines
Past B. Tech. Students:
Mr. B. C. Rajkiran and Mr. S. C. Budde (2013-2014)
Project: Design of Electro-Thermally actuated switches
Mr. P K. Challa and Mr. A. Meena (2014-2015)
Project: Design of MEMS Switch using Electrothermal Actuation
Mr. A. Ajmera and Mr. R. Kumar (2014-2015) (Co-advised with Dr. Sangamesh Deepak)
Project: Automatic Step-Climbing Wheelchair for Physically Disabled People