Dr. Jitendra Prasad
Associate Professor
PhD 2007, Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, USA
- Office: 415, Satish Dhawan Block, +91-1881-23-2364
- Research Areas:Biomechanics, Biomaterials, Biomechanical Design Analysis, Bone Fracture Healing, Agent Based Modeling, Bone Adaptation to Mechanical Stimuli, Computer Aided Design Engineering (CAD/CAE), Structural Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Genetic Algorithms, Compliant Mechanisms, Bistable Structures, Negative-Stiffness Materials, Vibration Isolation Analysis, Numerical Methods, Computational Mechanics, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Nonlinear FEA, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
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Dr. Jitendra Prasad is currently working with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar as an Associate Professor. After graduating with a B.Tech.(Hons.) from IIT Kharagpur in 1997, he worked with Indian Register of Shipping at Mumbai for 4 years. He then did his M.Eng. at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. With a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University (MSU), he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine at the University of Washington at Seattle. In April 2011, he joined IIT Ropar as an Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Prasad’s research is focused on computational engineering applied to design, analysis, innovation and discovery. In particular, he is interested in areas spanning applied mechanics, engineering design, optimization, bone biology and biomechanics. His research group at IIT Ropar is particularly focused on development of novel theoretical and computer models of bone fracture healing and bone’s adaptation to exogenous mechanical loading.
Dr. Prasad has been the founding member of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Program at IIT Ropar, and has officially served as the Coordinator of the BME Program, which was the precursor to the Department of Biomedical Engineering existing today at IIT Ropar. He has also been interested in curriculum development and pedagogy, and was the chairman of the committee that developed new undergraduate curriculum, which has been implemented at IIT Ropar starting 2017.
With effect from June 2021, Dr. Prasad has been serving IIT Ropar as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies.
Professional Achievements:
- Academic Background: PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University, with prior degrees from IIT Kharagpur and NTU Singapore.
- International Research Experience: Senior Fellow in Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle.
- Research Contributions: Published widely on biomechanics, bone fracture healing, agent-based modeling, negative-stiffness materials, and compliant mechanisms.
- Innovations: Developed novel computational methods for viscoelastic material design and structural optimisation using advanced modeling and algorithms.
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- (1) Prasad, J., and Tiwari, A.K., 2018, "Finding the difference between periosteal and endocortical bone adaptation by using Artificial Neural Networks," bioRxiv 357871. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/06/28/357871
- (2) Prasad, J., Goswami, A., Kumbhani, B., Mishra, C., Tyagi, H., Jun, J.H., Choudhary, K.K., Kumar, M., James, N., Reddy, V.R.S., Singh, S.J., Kashyap, D., Sohoni, M., DasGupta, N., Raina, P.K., Saha, S.K., Mittal, S., Chakraborty, S., Das, S.K., 2018, "Engineering curriculum development based on education theories", Current Science, Vol. 114 (9), pp. 1829-1834. http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/114/09/1829
- (3) Prasad, J., 2017, "Professors Gone Wild", Amazon KDP. https://www.amazon.com/Professors-Gone-Wild-Jitendra-Prasad-ebook/dp/B0738KV947
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