Asokan Thondiyath , PhD

Fellow
Stanford Biodesign

Stanford, CA

2009-2010 Stanford-India Biodesign Fellow
Asokan is a Fellow at Stanford India Biodesign, and an academician with interests in the design of mehatronic and robotic systems. Asokan received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India in the year 2000. He then spent six years as a researcher at the Robotics Research Center, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, working in the area of mechatronic systems and robotics. Asokan joined the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Design in 2006. At IIT Madras, his areas of teaching and research interests include product design, engineering system design, and robotics. One of his design projects won the Design Innovation Award at the Brunnel Design show held in London in 2007. Asokan has published more than 25 papers in international journals and conferences and has filed two patents, one each in India and Singapore. He holds a concurrent appointment as visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

At Stanford India Biodesign, Asokan strives to combine the modern technology and design methodologies with affordability to develop state-of-the-art medical devices to meet the Indian health care needs, thus contributing to the medtech revolution in India.
Personal Home page: http://www.ed.iitm.ac.in/Asokan/html/index.htm