Satyam Suwas Editor

Prof. Amaresh Chakrabarti is a Senior Professor and current Chairman for the Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He has B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, M.E. in Design of Mechanical Systems from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and Ph.D. in Engineering Design from the University of Cambridge, UK. He led the Design Synthesis group at the EPSRC funded Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge before joining IISc as an Associate Professor in 2001. His interests are in synthesis, creativity, sustainability, and informatics. He has published 16 books, over 300 peer-reviewed articles, and has 11 patents granted/pending. He has been on the Advisory Board and the Board of Management of the Design Society, UK; member of the CII National Committee on Design India; member of the Jury of India Design Mark; and member of the CII Smart Manufacturing Council India. He founded IDeASLab – India's first Design Observatory. He is the Founding Programme chair for International Conference Series on Research into Design (ICoRD), Conference Chair for the 22nd CIRP Design Conference 2012 and the 3rd International Conference on Design Creativity 2015 (3rd ICDC) and vice-Chair for AI in Design and Design Computing & Cognition Conferences. In 2014, he co-initiated India's first Smart Factory R&D platform.
Prof. Satyam Suwas is a professor and currently the Chair of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, and worked at Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad; University of Lorraine, France and RWTH Aachen, Germany before joining the Indian Institute of Science. His specialization includes materials processing, microstructural engineering and mechanical behaviour of materials. He has authored more than 300 research papers. He is a Humboldt fellow and has been conferred with Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award by the Humboldt Foundation, Germany. In India, Prof. Suwas was awarded Metallurgist of the year 2012 by the Ministry of Steel and was conferred eminent engineering personality in the year 2014 by the Institution of Engineers. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) as well as the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). 
Dr. Manish Arora is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. He obtained Ph.D. in applied Physics from the University of Twente, The Netherlands (2006) and B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi (2002). He has 70+ patents and research publications both in national and international level to his credit. His areas of interest include biomedical devices, co-design, collaboration, opensource in design and quality manufacturing of medical devices. He is the Principal Investigator in UTSAAH Lab, which aims at developing affordable and accessible medical technology solutions for promoting universal healthcare. He also teaches courses at IISc on Mechatronics and Design of Biomedical Devices and Systems.