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Prabhat Kumar

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. I completed my Bachelor's and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at NIT Warangal and IIT Kanpur respectively.  In my Ph.D., I investigated topology optimization of contact-aided compliant mechanisms. Thereafter, I worked as a post-doctoral fellow at TU Delft with Prof. Matthijs Langelaar, at Denmark Technical University with Prof. Ole Sigmund, and at Technion-IIT Israel with Prof. Oded Amir and Prof. Gal Shmuel. I was a Ramanujan fellow faculty at Mechanical Engineering Dept, IISc, Bangalore before joining IIT-H.

My research interests include topology optimization, structural optimization, compliant mechanisms, inverse design, soft robotics, computational mechanics, and computational contact mechanics. 

Key recognitions and awards

  • International Travel Grant, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India (2023)

  • Ramanujan Fellowship, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India (2020)

  • Young Delegates Program Fellowship, Asian MMS Conference, IISc, Bangalore, 2018, IFToMM, Japan (2018)

  • International Travel Grant, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India (2016)

  • Young Delegates Program Fellowship, MAMM Conference, Germany, 2016, IFToMM, Japan (2016)

  • Honorable mentioned fast forward presentation award, IDETC, ASME Conference, Boston, USA  (2015)

  • Performance award, Kirloskar Oil Engine Ltd. Pune, (2011)

  • Merit awards, NIT Warangal, Telangana (2006,07)

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