Proceedings of ISSS International Conference on Micro, Nano, and Smart Systems: IC-MNSS 2024, IISc-Bengaluru, India

Ashok Kumar Pandey is a professor and head of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. Before joining the Institute, he completed his master’s and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and postdoctoral research from Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, Haifa. During his PhD, he spent six months in the Mechanical Engineering Department at National University of Singapore towards development of characterization setup for MEMS torsional mirrors under different ambient conditions. The related published work was awarded with Hetenyi Award in 2010 by the Society of Experimental Mechanics, USA. He was the convener for nanoscience and nanotechnology for IITH-JICA friendship project since its inception till 2019 and also an officiating dean of Academics at Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai until 2021. He has initiated and coordinated two major interdisciplinary master’s programs in integrated sensors system and electrical vehicle technology at IIT Hyderabad.

Maryam Shojaei Baghini is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Bombay, India. Her research interests span analog/mixed-signal/RF IC design for various applications, sensor systems, and device-circuit co-design. She has published more than 330 peer-reviewed papers and is the joint-inventor of 6 granted US patents and 29 granted Indian patents. She is a fellow of INAE and distinguished lecturer of IEEE Sensors Council from 2022 to 2024. She was a TATA Trust chair professor in Frugal Engineering from 2020 to 2023. Maryam is recipient of the Qualcomm-India Faculty Award in 2021 and several other awards in the past. Maryam received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, followed by two years of industry experience and postdoctoral research at IIT Bombay before joining as a faculty member in 2008.

Gondi Kondaiah Ananthasuresh earned his bachelor’s degree from IIT-Madras, master’s from the University of Toledo, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, all in mechanical engineering. He is a professor in Mechanical Engineering and dean of the Division of Mechanical Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. His principal research interests are compliant mechanisms and topology optimization with applications in microelectromechanical systems, biomechanics of cells, biomedical devices, and microrobotics. In addition to research output of about 320 journal and conference publications and 18 patents, his research group has spun off five startups (BendFlex, Mimyk, Translead Medtech, InFab, and StrideAIde). He is a co-author or sole author of two textbooks, five edited books, and 18 book chapters. He and his students have been recognized with 15 best paper awards and 10 design prizes.