Dr.Sandipan Bandyopadhyayis a Professor at the Department of Engineering Design, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. He received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in 1998, and his Master's as well as Doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2000 and 2006, respectively, both in the discipline of Mechanical Engineering. He also obtained an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 2001. He worked as a Researcher in the India Science Lab, General Motors R&D, during 2005-07. In 2007 he joined IIT Madras, where he te aches courses in mechanical design, mechanisms, and robotics. His research interests include Theoretical and Computational Kinematics, Parallel Manipulators, Design of Socially Relevant Products, and Symbolic Computations. He currently serves as the Vice President of the Association for Machines and Mechanisms . He also represents India in the IFToMM Technical Committees on Computational Kinematics as well as Robotics and Mechatronics. He serves as an Associate Editor in the journals SÄdhanÄ and Robotica .