Biography of Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta
Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta is a Professor in the Department of
Mechanical
Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the
University of Maryland. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he
was a Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon
University. He received a
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of Roorkee (presently known
as the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee) in 1988. He received a
Gold
Medal for securing the first rank in his B.E. class (1988) and a Gold
Medal for the best Engineering Design Project (1988). He received a
Master of Technology (M. Tech.) in Production Engineering from the
Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1989. He received a Ph.D. in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park
in 1994. During his Ph.D. study, he was awarded a Graduate School
Fellowship and an Institute for Systems Research Graduate Fellowship.
For his highly inter-disciplinary Ph.D. research, he received Institute
for Systems Research’s George Harhalakis Outstanding Systems
Engineering Graduate Student Award (1994).
Dr. Gupta's current research interests are in the areas of Computer
Aided Design, Manufacturing Automation, and Robotics. He is mainly
interested in the following three computational problems arising in
these areas: (1) shape analysis and feature extraction, (2) shape
generation and synthesis, and (3) model simplification. In past,
he has worked on feature recognition, process planning,
manufacturability analysis, shape Similarity assessment, path planning,
assembly modeling, tooling design, reverse engineering, and
accessibility analysis problems. He has experience in many different
manufacturing domains including mechanical assembly, nano-manipulation,
machining, micro fabrication, injection molding, multi-material
molding, sheet metal bending, and solid freeform fabrication. He has
authored or co-authored more than one hundred and seventy articles in
journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters.
Dr. Gupta is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME) and a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME).
He has served as the Chair of the
Design for Manufacturing Technical Committee in the Design Division of
ASME. He has organized several conference sessions in the area of
computer-aided design and manufacturing. He has served as Program
Co-Chair in 1998 ASME Design for
Manufacturing Conference, Papers Chair
in 1999 ASME Design for
Manufacturing Conference, Exhibit Chair in 2000
ASME Design Engineering Technical
Conferences, Program Chair in 2002
ASME Design for Manufacturing
Conference, and Conference Chair in 2003
ASME Design for Manufacturing
Conference. He has served as a member on
the Editorial Advisory Board for Assembly
Automation and
Computer Aided Design and Applications
journals. He has also served as
an Associate Editor for IEEE
Transactions on Automation Science and
Engineering, the ASME Journal
of Computing and Information Science
in
Engineering, and SME Journal
of Manufacturing Processes. He has also
served on the Program Committees for
Geometric Modeling and Processing
Conference, Computer Aided
Design
Conference, Product Lifecycle
Management Conference, CAD
and
Graphics Conference, IEEE
International Symposium on Assembly and
Manufacturing, IEEE
Conference on Automation Science and Engineering,
and ACM Solid and Physical Modeling
Conference.
Dr. Gupta has won many honors and awards for his research
accomplishments. He received the
Best
Paper Award at the 1994 ASME
International Conference on Computers in
Engineering, the Best Paper Award at the 1999 ASME Design for
Manufacturing
Conference, a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval
Research in
2000, a Robert W. Galvin Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 2001, a CAREER Award
from
the National Science Foundation in 2001, the Outstanding Systems
Engineering
Faculty Award from the Institute for Systems Research in 2001, a
Presidential
Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2001,
a Highly Commended Paper Award from Literati Club in 2002, and the Best
Paper
Award at the 2006 ASME Computers and
Information in Engineering
Conference. He was a member of the team that won 2007 Invention
of the
Year Award in Physical Science category. He also holds a US Patent
titled Apparatus
and Method for Multi-Purpose
Setup Planning for Sheet Metal Bending
Operations.
Last
updated on July 1, 2008