Faculty
 
The multidisciplinary faculty comprises of renowned names drawn from a vast variety of fields such as Product Design, Usability Engineering
and Interaction Design, Human Factors Engineering, Graphic and Information Design, Computer Graphics, and Internet Technologies and
Multimedia. Apart from this regular workshops and visiting faculty both from India and abroad bring an international perspective to complement
the education. In the past DOD had researchers and practising designers from countries like Germany, Israel, Denmark and Japan apart from
various Indian institutes.
  A.K.Das
Status Professor
Interest area Industrial Design, Rapid Prototyping and Tooling, Space Design, Facility Design, Environmental Graphics, Design for Disabled
Contact dasak@iitg.ernet.in, T: +91-361-2582454;
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  Abinash Kumar Swain
swain Status Assistant Professor
Interest area CAD/CAM, Geometric Modelling, Product Design, Computer Aided Prototyping, Computational Geometry, Assembly features, Design for Manufacturing and Assembly, Assembly Planning, Information Modeling and Knowledge based System in CAD, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Virtual Manufacturing, Virtual reality in Product Development,Sustainability in Design
Biodata  
Abinash Kumar Swain obtained his B. E. (Mechanical Engineering) from Utkal University,Orissa(India), and M.Tech. (Manufacturing Technology) from the West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata (India). He has pursued a Ph.D. degree in Computer Aided Design(CAD) in the Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing (CPDM) and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc),Bangalore(India). His research (PhD)was funded by Boeing USA. He has research experience in the field of aircraft assembly
Contact   akswain@iitg.ernet.in, T: +91-361-2582467
  Avinash Shinde
avinash Status Assistant Professor
Interest area Product Design Furniture Design Lighting Design
Contact   savinash@iitg.ernet.in T: +91-361-2582458
  D. Udaya Kumar
udaya Status Assistant Professor
Interest area Graphic Design, Typography, Type Design, Information Graphics, Motion Graphics, Design Research, Exhibition Design, Architecture
Biodata  
Dr. D. Udaya Kumar is the designer of the Indian Rupee Symbol. He did his PhD in Design and Master’s degree in Design (Visual communication) from Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from School of Architecture and Planning. He worked as a senior designer and then as a design head in a monthly magazine – Intelligent Computing CHIP, Mumbai. He is a sports enthusiast and a nature lover.
Contact   d.udaya@iitg.ernet.in, d.udaya@gmail.com, T: +91-361-2582463
  Debkumar Chakrabarti
debkumar Status Professor and Head of the Department
Interest area Ergonomics Research, Human Compatibility Factor, Design Ergonomics, Product-Environment Interface Design, Occupational Health, Participatory Ergonomics and Training
Contact dc@iitg.ernet.in, T: +91-361-2582453
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  Keyur Sorathia
  keyur Status Assistant Professor
Interest area Interaction Design, Embedded Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Physical Computing, Design for development
Biodata Fascinated by immense power of technology and its ability to the way we live, Keyur Sorathia, Interaction Designer is interested in blending technology and design to enhance our everyday life experiences. To support his interests, his research explores understanding of new interaction modalities, embedded interaction, tangible interaction and ubiquitous computing. He is currently running a lab called Embedded Interaction Lab (EILab), focused on tangible and embedded interactions and design for development
Contact keyur@iitg.ernet.in, keyurbsorathia@gmail.com, T: +91-361-2582456, +91-8011693660
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  Manoj Majhi
manoj Status Assistant Professor
Interest area Animation, Special Effects, Cartooning, Research Interest, Animation Movie history, Creation of Traditional Animation
Biodata With a Bachelors Degree in Industrial and Production Engineering , and a Masters Degree in Visual Communication added with 8 years of using it in the Braodcast medium of Satellite Television , with at least 15 multimedia promotional published every week a probing question kept nagging the creative mind , why am I doing this , who benefits from this etc.A decision to impart the knowledge I had acquired from my professional career to equip the education system to bridge the lacuna .I still feel we have not yet explored the Iceberg of the information that is available in the Media , we seem to be at the beginning tip of the iceberg . This does inspire a cerative person to try out things that have not been explored yet .Instaed of re-inventing the wheel , we designers should be inventing innovative utility of the wheel for today's context.
Contact   manojmaj@iitg.ernet.in , T: +91-361-2582462
  Mriganka Madhukailya
mirganka Status Assistant Professor
Interest area Short Film , New Media Theory, Documentary film, Video art,
Participatory video
Contact   mriganka@iitg.ernet.in, T: +91-361-2582461
 
  Pradeep G. Yammiyavar
pradeep Status Professor
Interest area HCI-UE-Interaction Design, Product Design, Design Semantics, Design Management, Experiential Design, Environment-Urban Infrastructure Interdisciplinary Design & Pedagogy, Design Research
Contact pradeep@iitg.ernet.in
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  Prasad Bokil
avinash Status Assistant Professor
Interest area Visual language, Design semiotics, Graphic Design, Type
Design, Story telling, Design Research, Design ontology
Contact   prasad.bokil@iitg.ernet.in, prasad.bokil@gmail.com,
T: +91-361-2582468
 
  Ravi Mokashi Punekar
ravi Status Professor
Interest area   Industrial Design, Rapid Prototyping and Tooling, Space Design, Facility Design, Environmental Graphics, Design for Disabled
Biodata
Ravi Mokashi Punekar is a Product Designer and Professor at the Departmentof Design, IIT Guwahati, where he is currently teaching in their three academic Design programs for the last 2% years. After an early stint in industry, he joined the Faculty of Industrial Design at the National Institute of Design in 1986 and was teaching in the Product Design descipline of the Faculty of Industrial Design. He is actively involved in Design Research and Product Design and Development activities. In addition he has held responsible administrative positions at IIT Guwahati as Associate Dean (Student Affairs') 2002-05; Head of the Department of Design 2005-09, Chairman, Faculty of Industrail Design, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, 1993-'98 and on the board of academic studies for three leading institutions.
Contact   mokashi@iitg.ernet.in, T: +91-361-2582455
  Shareka Iqbal
shareka Status Assistant Professor
Interest area Adaptive Reuse, Solar Passive Architecture
Contact   shareka.iqbal@iitg.ernet.in , T: +91-361-2582460
  Sougata Karmakar
sougata Status Assistant Professor
Interest area Virtual Simulation (CAD and Digital Human Modeling) 2. Physical Ergonomics (Product and Workstation design), Cognitive Ergonomics (Information processing), Design and work environment, Design and Occupational Health
Biodata He received M.Sc in Physiology (2003) from Burduan University, W.B.; Ph.D. in Physiology (Sept’ 2009) from the Bharathiar University, T.N. and PGDM in Human Resource Management from Pondicherry University, India. He gained research expertise in ergonomics from DIPAS, DRDO, Delhi (Nov’ 2004-Nov’2009). He also worked as Asst. Prof. in Krishnagar Govt. College, W.B. and K.G. College of Health Sciences, T.N., India
Contact karmakar.sougata@iitg.ernet.in, karmakar.sougata@gmail.com, T: +91-361-2582464;M-+91-8011403513
  Utpal Barua
utpal Status Associate Professor
Interest area Basic Design, Graphic Design, Design Drawing and Visualization, Visual Design- Principles and Applications, Indian Symbology and Communication
Biodata

Dr. Utpal Barua is an award winning creative artist cum designer. He has won several prestigious awards and exhibited his creations in various countries. He is a Gold Medal winner in Olympic Fine Arts, Beijing, China2008 for his work based on the theme One world one dream, titled" A butterfly was passing by" selected by International Olympic committee, Beijing, China.

He is a BFA and MFA from Visva Bharati University, West Bengal (founded by Rabindra Nath Tegor) and PhD from IIT Guwahati. He has more than 25 national level exhibitions/conferences/ symposiums in Assam, Delhi Mumbai, Chandigarh, Kolkata, Bhopal since 1979 and More than 2% international level exhibitions/conferences/ symposiums in UK, Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, China, France, Macedonia, Lebanon, Norway, Bulgaria, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Russia etc. since 2000-2012. He has been awarded Assam Govt. Cultural Scholarship’82, Fellowship awarded by Ministry of Human Resource (Govt. of India) in 1998, AIFACS Award ‘97, Art fest National Award’97. In his free time, he listens to music, photography and designs layout for his work.

 
Contact   utpalb@iitg.ernet.in , T: +91-361-2582452
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