Dr Kamal K. Kar is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He received his Ph.D.Degreefrom Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1998. Subsequently, he pursued higher studies from Iowa State University, USA before joining as a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials science at IIT Kanpur in 2001. He was a BOYSCAST Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 2003 (May-December). He was a Head of IndisplinaryProgramme in Materials Science.

Prof. Kar has published more than 130 papers in international referred journals, 114 conference papers, 05 books on nanomaterials and their nanocomposites, 33 review articles/book chapters and more than 52 national and international patents. He has guided 9 PhD students and 59 M.Tech students. Currently 14 PhD students, 14M.Tech students and few visitors are working in his group.

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Mechanical Engineering

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Computational Mechanics (eXtended Finite Element Method, Isogeometric Analysis, Meshfree methods, Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method, Virtual element method), Gradient elasticity, Fracture Mechanics, Composite Materials, Functionally Graded Materials.

Dr. Yulin Li is an Associate Professor in Engineering Research Centre for Biomedical Materials of Ministry of Education at East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China and he is also a visiting researcher at CQM, University of Madeira, Portugal. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Polymer Chemistry and Physics in 2005 from Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China. Dr. Li started his first postdoctoral work on the topic of "Study of deformation mechanisms of polymer films via In Situ Atomic Force Microscopy" at Lille University of Science and Technology, France. In 2006, he moved to Biomaterials Centre, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, and then to Department of Applied Chemistry, Kyushu University, Japan, as a postdoctoral researcher. He was appointed as an Assistant Researcher at Madeira Material and Chemistry Centre (CQM), University of Madeira, Portugal (2009 - 2014), under the scope of the program Science 2008 launched by FCT (Fundaçãopara a Ciência e a Tecnologia/Portuguese Science Foundation).

Dr. Li research interests are involved in the exploration of continuous-fiber-reinforced resin materials for engineering applications, and development of biomimetic materials for bone regeneration and oncology.

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1. Functional safety for E/E/PE systems
2. Reliability and availability evaluation method
3. Fault detection and diagnosis methodology
4. Bayesian network methodology and application
5. Risk analysis for process industry

Dr. Kinda Khalaf received her B.S. (Summa Cum Laude with Distinction) and M.S. (Honors) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University, USA. Her Ph.D., also from OSU, is in Biomechanics/Computational Biomechanics, specializing in Biomaterials, and Dynamic modeling and control. Dr. Khalaf has held faculty appointments in Engineering and Medicine at several prestigious universities including the University of Miami and the American University of Beirut, and currently serves as associate chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi. She has numerous publications in the areas of Orthopedic Biomechanics, Computational Biomechanics, biomaterials, and neuromusculoskeletal modeling and controlDr. Khalaf is on the list of International Who Is Who of Professionals. She has been awarded various awards and honors including the prestigious National Merit Scholar. She is currently the chairperson of the UAE branch of IEEE, EMBS, in addition to her membership is several professional organizations.

My main research interests center on the study of the human neuromusculoskeletal system, particularly focusing on quantitative assessment of human movement and performance, biomechanical modeling, and movement simulation and control.. Teaching interests encompass biomechanics, orthopedic biomechanics, computational biomechanics, soft and hard tissue biomaterials, biological systems modeling, robotics, biomedical devices, technologies, and mechanical design.

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Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics, Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis, Computational Contact Mechanics, Laser Based Manufacturing, GPU Computing

Dr. Swarup Bag is an Assistant Professor in Materials and Manufacturing, Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Guwahati, Assam, India.
He received his Ph.D.Degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombayin 2009 and earned hispostdoctoral from university of MINES Paris Tech, CEMEF (Center for Material Forming). He is working as an Assistant Professorat IIT Guwahati till now. Heis having 10 years of experience in the field of Material Science and Manufacturing processes. His area of expertise includes: welding and joining, finite element based modeling of manufacturing processes, optimization in manufacturing processes, recrystallization, and residual stress and distortion.
He is the author of ‘Computational models for GTA and laser welding processes’, recipient of ‘Royal Arc Award 2009’from Indian Institute of Welding for the best PhD thesis in welding.

· Finite element based modelling of fusion welding processes
· Transport phenomena in welding processes
· Distortion and residual stress analysis including the effect of phase transformation
· Micro-scale manufacturing processes
· Ultra-shot pulsed laser material processing
· Missed-joint behaviour in electron beam welding of dissimilar materials
· Recrystallization in metal forming processes
· Microstructure modelling
· Optimization in manufacturing processes

Dr. Xiaojun Chen is an associate professor at School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China. He received his Ph.D degree from SJTU in 2006. As a visiting scholar, he worked at the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Harvard Medical School during Oct. 2011~ Oct. 2012, the TIMC-IMAG lab (CNRS, France) during Sep~Dec 2013, and the OMFS-IMPATH lab(KU Leuven, Belgium) during Jun~Aug 2015. His research focuses on computer-aided surgery, including medical image analysis, surgical navigation, surgery simulation, surgical robots, biomedical manufacturing, etc.
He is the author and co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles published in the prestigious journals such as CIDRR, IJOMI, IJMRCAS, CMPB, Medical Physics, etc. He also delivered more than 10 lectures (3 invited plenary speeches) in the prestigious international conferences including CARS, CAI, IEEE-ITAB, etc. He is the PI of more than 10 research projects, including three funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China.

His research focuses on computer-aided surgery, including medical image analysis, surgical navigation, surgery simulation, surgical robots, biomedical manufacturing, etc.