Areas of Research: Product design and Manufacturing, Design, Sustainable design and manufacturing, Creativity, Engineering Aesthetics, Bio-mimicry in Design, Industrial Design (practicing)

Chairman and nodal officer of Intellectual Property Rights cell. Started the cell with support from PSCST. Under my leadership from zero patents the institute is now having 70 patents pending, five granted including one in US.

My research, teaching, and outreach initiatives are dedicated towards assisting national and international companies to gain competitive advantage in global market, especially through design and manufacturing. Companies in many countries especially in India, UK, and USA are looking to gain market share by reducing costs and increasing reliability through improved design practice. My research is focused on the development of tools and techniques of product design and manufacturing, specifically during the conceptual design- to create novel and useful products and processes, and improve them.• Teaching and research on product design, sustainability, creativity, and design research• Developed courses, such as, Product Design and Realization (UG) and Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (PhD), and Design research (UG and PG)• Founded and directing three new labs: Sustainable Design and Manufacturing Laboratory (Co-PI), Design Research Laboratory (PI), and Design Studio Laboratory (Co-PI)• Coordinating product design and realization manufacturing laboratory and workshop

Domain coordinator of Technology Innovation HUB (TIH)- Agriculture and Water Technology Development Hub (AWADH), established by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India at IIT Ropar in the framework of National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS).

Associate Researcher at Manufacturing System Integration Division (MSID), Manufacturing Engineering laboratory (MEL), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. • Research on sustainable manufacturing• Development of a sustainability standards portal to help SMEs implement sustainability related standards, such as, WEEE, RoHS, and ISO 14000. • Development of a sustainability indicator repository and analysis of indicators.• Development of eco-design methods.

IISc Junior Research Associate, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Type of activity: Research on creativity and design research

‘ODEA solutions’ is a product design and development consulting company

R&D Center of Bharat Earth Movers Limited, BEML, second largest manufacturer of earth moving equipment in Asia, URL: http://www.bemlindia.com. Designed and developed India's first sophisticated remote controlled dozer for Government of India (TIFAC), as a disaster management equipment to be used after an earthquake. Design and development of mechanical systems for dozers and dumpers.