Research into Design for a Connected World

Amaresh Chakrabarti is a Senior Professor and current Chairman for the Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He has BE (Mech Engineering, IIEST Shibpur), ME (Design of Mechanical Systems, IISc) and PhD (Engineering Design, University of Cambridge UK). He led for 10 years the Design Synthesis group at EPSRC Centre of Excellence the Engineering Design Centre (EDC) at University of Cambridge. His interests are in synthesis, creativity, sustainability, and informatics. He published 13 books, over 300 peer-reviewed articles, and has 10 patents granted/pending. He co-authored DRM, a methodology used widely as a framework for design research. He has been an Associate Editor for AI EDAM and Design Science Journals (both Cambridge University Press), Area Editor for Research in Engineering Design Journal, Regional Editor for Journal of Re-manufacturing (both Springer), and Advisory Editor for seven Journals including Clean Technologies & Environmental Policy (Springer), Journal of Engineering Design and International Journal of Design Creativity & Innovation (Taylor & Francis). He has been on the Advisory Board and Board of Management of the Design Society (an international peer society for design research); a member of the CII Design National Committee on Design India; member of the Jury for India Design Mark; and a member of the CII Smart Manufacturing Council India. He founded IDeASLab - India's first Design Observatory. He is the founding Programme chair for the International Conference Series on Research into Design (ICoRD), the 22nd CIRP Design Conference 2012, the 3rd International Conference on Design Creativity 2015 (3rd ICDC) and Vice-Chair for the AI in Design and Design Computing & Cognition Conferences. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Designers UK, the peer society under the UK Royal Charter in engineering design, and a TUM Ambassador Awardee from Technical University of Munich Germany. Fifteen of his papers won top paper awards in international conferences. He co-initiated India's first Smart Factory Laboratory platform. He also heads the IISc-TCS Innovation Lab at IISc and the IISc Press, as well as the Springer International Book Series on Design Science & Innovation. He received Careers360 Faculty Research Award 2018 for being the 'Most Outstanding Researcher' in Decision Sciences. He is the current Editor-in-Chief for the Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AI EDAM Journal, Cambridge University Press).