Dr. Sourav Rakshit
Associate Fellow
Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
India
Biography
Dr Sourav Rakshit received his PhD and ME from IISc Bangalore in 2012 and 2006 respectively. He is a BE in mechanical engineering from Jadavpur University. He was a postdoctoral researcher at University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 2012 to 2014, and before joining IIT Madras he was institute postdoc at IIT Kanpur (May-July 2014). He worked as a scientist in the reactor engineering division in BARC from 2000-2004.
Research Interest
Sourav’s research interests are in multibody dynamics, robotics, biomechanics, optimization, and computation methods in general.
Publications
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Sourav Rakshit and Srinivas Akella, A Trajectory Optimization Formulation for Assistive Robotic Devices, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016, pp. 2068-2074.
