National Institute of Technology, India

Dr. B. B. Biswal graduated in Mechanical Engineering from University College of Engineering( presently VSS University of Technology), Burla, India in  1985. Subsequently he completed his M.Tech. and Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at UCE Burla from 1986 and continued till 2004. He joined National Institute of Technology, Rourkela as Professor and currently he is a Senior Professor and Head of Department of Industrial Design. Additionally, he is the Head of the Centre for Technology Innovation and Industry Relations (TIIR) at NIT Rourkela. He is also an Independent Director of Bharat Coking Coal Limited, one of the largest subsidiaries of Coal India Limited. He has been actively involved in various research projects and published more than 100 papers at National and International levels. His areas of research interest include industrial robotics, FMS, Computer integrated manufacturing, automation, and maintenance engineering. He was a visiting Professor at MSTU, Moscow and a visiting scientist at GIST, South Korea.