Prof. Satyandra K. Gupta
Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in Teaching and Research
Award Year: 2022 | Degree Year: 1989
Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta received a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 1988. He received an M.Tech. in Production Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1989. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1994. He currently holds Smith International Professorship in the Viterbi School of Engineering and serves as the Director of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Gupta has made significant contributions to the field of human-centered automation to increase human productivity, reduce health risks for humans, and enable innovation. He has made advances in physics-informed artificial intelligence to realize smart robotic assistants and decision support systems. The use of these smart robotic assistants has increased human productivity and reduced human health risks in several manufacturing applications. He also developed robotic cells for multiscale additive manufacturing to significantly increase build speeds and improve mechanical properties of the parts. By integrating perception, planning, and control, his group has turned optical tweezers into robots to precisely manipulate microscale objects. This micromanipulation capability is useful for safely manipulating biological cells and significantly reduces the human effort needed to conduct biological experiments.
He has authored more than four hundred refereed articles. He has delivered more than 175 keynote, plenary, and invited talks. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Solid Modeling Association (SMA). He has served as the Editor-in-Chief for ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. He serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute. He was appointed to the US National Materials and Manufacturing Board (NMMB) in February 2022. He has received numerous honors and awards for his scholarly contributions. Representative examples include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Bush in 2001, Invention of the Year Award at the University of Maryland in 2007, Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award from ASME in 2011, Excellence in Research Award from ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Division in 2013, Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and ASME Design Automation Award in 2021. He has also received ten best paper awards at international conferences.
In honouring Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta, IIT Delhi recognizes the outstanding contributions made by him to the field of Teaching and Research. Through his achievements, Dr. Gupta has brought glory to the name of the Institute.
