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He is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and has worked in various capacities as Head of Department and Associate Dean Academics. He has twenty-three years of experience in Academics and three years of experience in Industry. He has been involved in classroom teaching, pursuing research, guiding research and Industrial consultancy project for last seventeen years. His research interests are in the area of rehabilitation robotics to address stroke and upper arm extremities rehabilitation process. He has been attempting to understand and implement the Body Machine Interface for improvement in the quality of life. He specializes in Industrial Robotics and the use of statistical techniques to model, synthesize and optimize complex dynamic systems. Proven expertise in the use of statistical methods for system design, parameter design and tolerance design of a mechanical equipment. He has been involved in teaching and consultancy of subjects related to Robotics, Mechatronics, Quality Engineering, and Operations Research. He has worked on a Government funded sponsored research and development project to develop humanoid to avoid obstacles and handle specified objects in the environment. He has been guiding research students in the areas of mobile robotics, topologically optimized compliant structure and mechanism and vision-based robotic assemblies. He was IUSSTF Research Fellow in the Year 2012 to conduct research at Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Affiliated to Feinberg School of Medicine, North Western University Chicago, Illinois (USA).