Our Faculty
Dr. S Balaguru
Dean & Senior Associate Professor. {Kinematics and Dynamics}
Email: dean.smec@vitbhopal.ac.in, balaguru.s@vitbhopal.ac.in
He obtained his BE in Mechanical Engineering from Manonmanium Sundaranar University, M.Tech from IIT Madras and PhD from College of Engineering Guindy under Anna University. He carried out his postdoctoral research work at National University of Singapore. He works as Dean in-charge of School of Mechanical Engineering at VIT Bhopal. He has 28 years of experience in leading Engineering Institutions out of which he worked as Professor HoD for 11 years. In 2019, he was invited to Kocaeli University, Turkey, under the Mevlana Mobility Programme with a grant as an International faculty to handle a technical course. He solely authored a best-selling textbook on Dynamics of Machines under the Cengage Learning. He brought out an edited book on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering under Springer publications. In 2008, his proposal fetched a grant of Rs. 8 lakhs under the MODROBS Scheme. He established an International chapter known as Material Advantage Student Chapter at VIT Bhopal as Faculty Advisor. He has guided 3 PhD scholars and 30 M.Tech projects. He published more than 60 papers in reputed journals. He presented 30 papers in the International conferences held in India and abroad. He has 5 patents and several book chapters to his credit. He has been a reviewer for many reputable journals. He visited Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and Turkey for academic works. His research fields are cladding, composites and nuclear materials. He is a Fellow as well as CEng. of the Institution of Engineers. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is a life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).
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Programme Chairs
Dr. Shiv Manjaree Gopaliya:
Programme Chair & Assistant Professor {Artificial Intelligence and Robotics}
Email: pc.air@vitbhopal.ac.in, shivmanjaree@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr Gopaliya has served at various academic and administrative positions at various academic Institutes for more than 12 years. She has served at The NorthCap University (Formerly ITM University), Gurugram (2008-2018) for close to a decade where apart from her teaching commitments, she has successfully completed Government and industry sponsored research projects both and has served as Audit Coordinator for various Accreditation bodies namely, NBA, NAAC, IQAC to name a few. Dr Gopaliya holds a PhD in Robotics Engineering and M Tech in Robotics and Automation from Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana. She is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from Government Engineering College, Jagdalpur, Chattisgarh. She is an active researcher with good publications in the area of application of Artificial Intelligence in Robotics. She is a life member of The Robotics Society and Aeronautical Society of India, both. She is a professional member of SAEINDIA.
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Faculty
Dr. Abhishek Shrivastava
Assistant Professor, {Artificial Intelligence and Robotics}.
Email: abhishek.shrivastava@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Abhishek Shrivastava is a doctorate in the field of Robotics from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur. His current research interests are dynamics and control of space robot, redundancy resolution, fault- tolerant control, obstacle avoidance, motion planning and trajectory optimization of redundant space robot. He has done B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from VIET Greater Noida. Following that awarded with Master of Technology (M. Tech) from the National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur in 2018. Dr. Abhishek Shrivastava also received MHRD fellowships for efforts in obtaining postgraduate and doctorate degrees. He has strong thrust and dedication to develop agricultural and sports related robotic equipment aiming to benefit the society. During his PhD tenure, he has published 06 SCIE research papers in renowned international journals with high impact factors. He also published 08 International/ National conferences and 01 book chapter in reputed journals. He also attended 03 AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academic Program organized at National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur. Additionally, submitted 03 research projects for recognized agencies of India.
Dr. Sibananda Mohanty
Assistant Professor, {Artificial Intelligence and Robotics}
Email: sibanandamohanty@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Sibananda Mohanty earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Guwahati, specializing in nonlinear dynamics and feedback control. He holds a Master’s degree in Machine Design from IIEST Shibpur and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Govt. College of Engineering, Keonjhar, Odisha.
Dr. Mohanty has over 3.5 years of research and industry experience at IIT Guwahati apart from PhD and an equal amount of teaching experience. During his postdoctoral fellowship at the IIT Guwahati Technology Innovation Development Foundation, he focused on underwater robotics, playing a key role in developing unmanned underwater and surface vehicles showcased at various DST meetings, ministry visits, government events and generated revenue. He is currently involved in three ongoing projects on unmanned vehicles for water bodies. He is also a DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) certified drone instructor and pilot. Dr. Mohanty has authored 28 publications as first and corresponding author in leading journals (including Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation), as well as book chapters and conference papers. For more details, visit his personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/dr-sibananda-mohanty
Dr. Rohit Sharma
Senior Assistant Professor,{Predictive Modeling}
Email: rohit.sharma@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr. Rohit Sharma is currently serving as Senior Assistant Professor and Programme Chair-Mechanical at VIT Bhopal University, India. He earned his Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Italy in Energy and Nuclear Science & Technology in 2017. His research focused on the near-field region of turbulent swirling jets in the combustion & propulsion laboratory. Notably, Dr. Sharma received an esteemed Erasmus Mundus fellowship sponsored by the European Commission in 2013 to pursue his Ph.D. Prior to his doctorate, Dr. Sharma received his M.Tech in Thermal Engineering from NIT Warangal in 2013 and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from LNCT Bhopal in 2010. Over the years, he has amassed extensive experience in the field of research and academia. For three years, he worked as a Senior Project Research Scientist at IIT Bombay. He also served as an Assistant Professor at NIT Jalandhar for some time and gained invaluable industrial experience as a Graduate Engineer Trainee at Vardhman Yarns for one year.
Dr. Sharma has an impressive record of 25 publications in esteemed journals and conferences and has been honored with best research paper and poster awards. As a core team member, he actively participated in the student solar ambassador workshop organized under the SoULS project at IIT Bombay, which achieved the Guinness World Record on 2nd October 2018 for lighting the most LED lights based on solar energy. He has contributed to other sponsored projects such as the Energy and Economic Growth (EEG) project in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA. Also, he worked on the TATA Research project in collaboration with Boston College, USA, under the SoULS, IIT Bombay umbrella. He has recently been awarded an International Travel Grant (2022) in the Young Scientist category and a Seminar/Symposia Grant (2023) by SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, serving as the Principal Investigator. He has traveled to numerous countries, including France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, to present his research at various international conferences. Dr. Sharma has successfully organised several international conferences and workshops as Organising Secretary and Convener. His diverse research interests encompass Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Optical Diagnostics, Flow Visualization, Internal Combustion Engines, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, Predictive Modelling, Rural Electrification, and Off-grid Solar Energy.
Dr. Pushpdant Jain
Senior Assistant Professor, {Additive Manufacturing}
Email: pushpdant.jain@vitbhopal.ac.in
Dr Pushpdant Jain has more than 12+ years of experience including, in industries and academic institutions. Currently, he is working with VIT Bhopal University as a Senior Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering. Dr Jain holds PhD in Industrial Design from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (Odisha). He has published more than 30+ publications which includes SCI, SCOPUS journal articles, book chapters and conference publications. He has authored 02 books as an Editor. Dr Jain has published more than 16 patents/design registrations and granted with 13 design registrations. He has organized one international conference as an Organizing Secretary and the conference proceeding was published in Springer Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (SCOPUS indexed) in the year 2023. Dr. Jain is also an active reviewer of various reputed journals such as Scientific Reports (Nature Journal), Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (Springer Nature), BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders (Springer Nature), BioMed Research International (Hindawi Publications), Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express (IOP Publishing), Informatics in Medicine Unlocked (Elsevier) and Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering (Springer Nature) etc. He is an active member of the European Society of Bio-Mechanics (ESB), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), a life member of the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (SMIIIE) and Indian Society for Technical Education. In addition to this, he was awarded with Research Scholar of the Year in the year 2018 at NIT Rourkela for his PhD Work. His research interest includes New Product Development, Spinal Implant, Bio-Mechanics, Finite Element Analysis.
