Asok Kumar Mallik
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Asok Kumar Mallik received his BE and ME degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur under Calcutta University. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi as a Lecturer (1970) and then moved to IIT Kanpur (1971). He obtained his PhD from IIT Kanpur (1973) and became a Professor in 1982. In 2006, he was made the first S Sampath Chair Professor at IIT Kanpur. As a Commonwealth Scholar, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton (1974-75). As an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, he spent 18 months at TH, Aachen and 6 months at TU, Darmstadt.
Research Interest
Vibration Engineering, Kinematics