भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान इंदौर Indian Institute of Technology Indore
IIT Indore
Dr. Suhas Joshi is currently the Director, IIT Indore. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), the National Academy of Sciences of India (NASI), Indian National Academy of Science (INSA) and The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Prior to joining IIT Indore as the Director in Jan 2022, at IIT Bombay, Dr. Joshi was Rahul Bajaj Chair Professor (2014-22). He also served as the Dean of Alumni and Corporate Relations (2018-22) and the Head of Mechanical Engineering Department (2014-17). Dr. Joshi obtained his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay in 1997 and worked with Engineering Research Centre of Tata Motors, Pune before joining IIT Bombay as a faculty member in 1999. Dr. Joshi has done his Bachelor of Engineering in Production Engineering from VJTI (1984-88)
Dr. Joshi was a Research Affiliate at Georgia Tech, USA while pursuing post-doctoral research supported by BOYSCAST Fellowship of Govt. of India in 2002. He was a Visiting Faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA during 2005-06.
During 2009-14, he spearheaded establishment of ‘National Centre for Aerospace Innovation and Research (NCAIR)’, at IIT Bombay as its founding Principal Investigator. The centre was an industrial consortium mainly supported by Govt. of India and The Boeing Company.
Dr. Joshi’s research work involves improving the productivity and quality of multi- scale machining processes through physics-based modelling. He has undertaken over 35 research, consultancy, and infrastructure development projects sponsored by aerospace, nuclear, defence organizations and industries.
Dr. Joshi has several editorial assignments with prestigious international journals during all these years.
Dr Joshi received Dr. P. K. Patwardhan Technology Development award (2008) and Best Faculty award of Mechanical Engineering Department (2007) at IIT Bombay. Dr. Joshi has supervised 4 post-doctoral and 24 doctoral students. He is currently guiding 2 Ph.D. students. He also has supervised more than 120 masters’ dissertations. Dr. Joshi has around 360 publications including over 210 in refereed international journals.
Keynote Talk 7 for AIMTDR 2023 at IIT BHU (Varanasi)