Name & Designation: Dineshkumar Harursampath, Asst.Prof., AE; Head, NMCAD Lab; President, MultiFun Organisation: Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India Leading from the front for over 15 years, the innovator under focus, Dr. Harursampath, the NMCAD Lab headed by him, and the MultiFun startup founded by him have all been pushing the limits of multifunctional materials, in general, and energy recycling and storing composites, in particular, for various aerospace and non-aerospace applications, benefitting the society at large and identifying hitherto untapped yet potent markets for the versatile materials industry. About 200 articles in international journals and conference proceedings as well as five patent applications, nearly a hundred doctoral and masters thesis advisees, millions of dollars of research funding, international collaborations with leading industrial and academic partners around the world and best teacher nominations apart from other international awards, including the USA Seva Award, ITMA Future Materials Award for Best Startup of the Year, University Startup World Cup, Dutch Aerospace Award & biennial UNESCO-Airbus FYI world championship, are a few of the highlights. Educational Qualifications: Degree (Subject) Year Institute & Location Remarks PhD (Aerospace Engg.) 1999 Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA 3.9/4 ME (Aerospace Engg.) 1994 IISc, Bengaluru, India 3rd Rank & First Class with Distinction BTech (Aerospace Engg.) 1992 IIT Madras, Chennai, India 2nd Rank & First Class with Distinction Professional Experience: Position Organisation From To Nature of Work Visiting Professor ENS de Cachan, France 2007 2008 Research collaboration on Gossamer spacecraft structures Visiting Professor PoliMi, Italy 2010 2010 Research collaboration on buckling of composite sandwich panels Visiting Professor PoliTo, Italy 2012 2012 Research collaboration on delamination modelling & prediction Visiting Professor TU Delft, The Netherlands 2013 2013 Research collaboration on micro air vehicles & aerospace structures Asst. Professor IISc, India 2001 2016 Heading a lab, teaching postgraduate courses, advising doctoral students, research & consultancy Sr. Research Associate IISc, India 1999 2001 Post-doctoral fellowship: Design analysis of large composite pressure vessels & metal-to-composite interfaces for DRDO Specialization & Expertise: Nonlinear Mechanics of Smart Composite Beams, Plates, Shells, Sandwich & Inflatable Structures; Concurrent Multi-scale Probabilistic Constitutive Modeling of Multifunctional Materials; Analysis, Design & Structural Health Monitoring of Composites for Aerospace Vehicles; Multi-Flexible-Body Dynamics using Symbolic Manipulators; Flight Vehicle Design including fixed & flapping wing MAVs Awards & Distinctions: • President-designate, MultiFun, a startup for multifunctional composites • Winner, Best Startup Company, ITMA Future Materials Awards, Milano, Italy + 4 finalist nominations by World Textile information Network (WTiN), UK • Innovator of the Year – Dr. Dineshkumar Harursampath • Best Innovation – Mobile Textiles [Automotive, Aerospace & Other Transport] • Best Innovation – Sustainable Textiles • Launch of the Year • Top-3 (CleanTech & Environment) + Special Mention (Product & Technology), University Startup World Cup, Copenhagen, Denmark • Academic Mentor, Multinational Team MultiFun & Team Lakshya-IISc • Winner, 2015 UNESCO-Airbus Fly Your Ideas (biennial, €30,000), Hamburg, Germany • Winner, 2015 Dutch Aerospace Award, Amsterdam, The Netherlands • Winner, 2015 American Helicopter Society (AHS) International Vertical Flight Fellowship (VFF), USA • Winner, 2015 Best Graduate Entry, AHS International Student Design Competition (SDC), USA • Airbus "Link the Top," ISAE SUPAERO, France; NUS, Singapore & IISc, India • Erasmus Mundus Faculty Fellowship, 2010; Biographee, Marquis Who's Who in the World, Silver Jubilee Edition, 2007 to 32nd Edition, 2014; American Biographical Institute's Great Minds of the 21st Century; Marquis Who's Who in America, 110th Edition, Nov 2007; Cambridge International Professional of the Year 2008, IBC Foremost Professional of the World 2008. Twice nominated for INSA best teacher award. • Editor • International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Serials Publications, ISSN: 0974-584X • Advances in Aircraft and Spacecraft Science, International Journal, Techno Press, ISSN: 2287-5271 & 2287-528X • Lead-Organiser • American Helicopter Society (AHS) International's 4th Australian-Asian Rotorcraft Forum (ARF), November 16—18, 2015, Bengaluru, India • Bell Helicopters Textron / Concordia University / IISc / CRIAQ / NSERC’s International Workshop on Thick Composites, Montreal, March 14—15, 2016, Montreal, Canada • Society for Engineering Sciences (SES) 49th Annual Technical Meeting, October 10—12, 2012, Atlanta, USA • Co-author, Top-selling "Wiley Acing the GATE," ISBN13: 978-8126545421 (List topper of GATE books amongst all branches of engineering on Amazon, Flipkart etc. for 2015 & 2016 editions & all reprints) Top thirteen publications in last eight years 1. R. G. Burela & D. Harursampath, Dielectric Elastomers: Asymptotically Correct Three-Dimensional Displacement Field, International Journal of Engineering Science, 87 (2015), pp. 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.ijengsci.2014.10.006 (Impact Factor: 2.291) 2. P. J. Guruprasad, M. Thejasvi & D. Harursampath, Nonlinear analysis of a thin pre-twisted and delaminated anisotropic strip, Acta Mechanica, Volume 225, Issue 10 (2014), pp. 2815-2832. doi: 10.1007/s00707-014-1203-4 (Impact Factor: 1.268) 3. S. K. Kumar, M. Cinefra, E. Carrera, R. Ganguli & D. Harursampath, Finite Element Analysis of Free Vibration of the Delaminated Composite Plate with Variable Kinematic Multilayered Plate Elements, Composites Part B: Engineering, 66 (2014), pp. 453–465. doi: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2014.05.031 (Impact Factor: 2.602) 4. S. K. Kumar, R. Ganguli & D. Harursampath,
Partial Delamination Modeling in Composite Beams using Finite Element Method, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 76 (2013), pp. 1-12.
 doi: 10.1016/j.finel.2013.07.007 (Impact Factor: 1.711, 6 citations) 5. H. Pollayi, D. Harursampath & W. Yu, Evaluation of Strength of Component-Laminates in Strip-based Mechanisms, Composite Structures, 100 (2013), pp. 1–16, doi: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2012.12.030 (Impact Factor: 3.442) 6. S. S. Padhee & D. Harursampath, Radial Deformation of Cylinders due to Torsion, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 79 (6): 061013-9, Nov 2012, doi: 10.1115/1.4006803 (Impact Factor: 1.2, 2 citations) 7. H. Pollayi & D. Harursampath, Geometrically Nonlinear Dynamics of Composite Four-Bar Mechanisms, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 47 (8): 837—850, Oct 2012. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2012.05.002 (Impact Factor: 1.673, 4 citations) 8. R. G. Burela & D. Harursampath, VAM applied to Dimensional Reduction of Nonlinear Hyperelastic Plates, International Journal of Engineering Science, Special Issue in Honor of Victor L. Berdichevsky, edited by K. C. Le & L. Truskinovsky, Volume 59: 90—102, Oct 2012, doi: 10.1016/j.ijengsci.2012.03.019 (Impact Factor: 2.291, 1 citation) 9. S. Murugan, R. Ganguli & D. Harursampath, Surrogate based Design Optimisation of Composite Aerofoil Cross-section for Helicopter Vibration Reduction, The Aeronautical Journal, Vol. 116 No. 1181, Royal Aeronautical Society Paper No. 3731, July 2012. (Impact Factor: 0.469, 6 citations) 10. M. V. P. Rao, D. Harursampath & K. Renji, Prediction of Interlaminar Stresses in Composite Honeycomb Sandwich Panels under Mechanical Loading using Variational Asymptotic Method, Composite Structures, 94 (8): 2523-2537, Jul 2012. doi: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2012.02.021. (Impact Factor: 3.442, 5 citations) 11. S. Murugan, R. Ganguli & D. Harursampath, Stochastic Aeroelastic Analysis of Composite Helicopter Rotor, Journal of the American Helicopter Society, 56 (1), AHS Article 012001, Jan 2011. (Impact Factor: 0.57, 3 citations) 12. S. Murugan, D. Harursampath & R. Ganguli, Material Uncertainty Propagation in Helicopter Nonlinear Aeroelastic Response and Vibratory Analysis, AIAA Journal, 46 (9): 2332—2334, 2008. (Impact Factor: 1.165, 27 citations) 13. Murugan, Ganguli & Harursampath, Aeroelastic Response of Composite Helicopter Rotor with Random Material Properties, AIAA Journal of Aircraft, 45 (1): 306—322, Jan—Feb 2008. (Impact Factor: 1.1, 38 citations – 5th highest cited paper last 5 years) Summary of research output (papers, patents, technology development) Publications --Journal Papers: 15 --Books: 2 --Book Chapters: 4 --Conference Papers: 194 Sponsored Projects --Projects in Progress: 4 --Projects Completed: 33 --Patents pending: 3 Students Supervised --Post Doctoral Fellows: 3 --PhD: 5 (completed) 9 (ongoing) --PhD: --Masters: 36 (completed) 8 (ongoing) Financial support received in recent few years: ~ USD 2 million (half of which was in foreign exchange) (Funding Sources: DST, DRDL, ARDB, HAL, GTRE, ASL, The Boeing Company, Bell Helicopters Textron USA & Canada, Concordia University, NSERC, CRIAQ, ADE, Ameron International, NASA, US Army) Major sponsored R&D projects completed/handled: Title Funding Agency Value (Lakhs INR) Duration Development of Active Control & Health Monitoring Techniques by Application of Smart Materials to Helicopter Dynamic Systems Rotary Wing Research & Development Center, HAL, Bengaluru, India 115.0 2002—07 Development of Multifunctional Smart Aerospace Structures in a Non-Deterministic Framework Phantom Works, The Boeing Company, St. Louis, USA 518.6 2006—11 Piezo-Composite MAV Wing as Integral Structure & Actuators National Program on MICro Aerial Vehicles (NP-MICAV), DST, GoI 76.2 2011—15 Composite Rotor Flex Beam Flapping Optimization Bell Helicopter Textron, USA, NSERC, CRIAQ & Concordia University, Canada 67.0 2013—16 A Study of the Suitability of Fiber Composite Layers for Fan Blade Containment in a Gas Turbine System through Numerical Modeling & Experimental Validation Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), DR&DO, Bengaluru, India 173.1 2015—17 A Computational Study of the Micro-Mechanics of & Damage Mechanics in Metal Matrix Composite Bladed Rings based on an Asymptotically-Correct Analysis Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), DR&DO, Bengaluru, India 138.6 2015—17 Technology development/translation/initiation: Technology related to advanced composites for SHM, fatigue life enhancement, energy recycling & energy storage etc. already being commercialised through MultiFun, a manufacturing startup founded along with students to specialise in multifunctional composites around the world.