ASSOCIATE FACULTY

Education
• Post-doc Research Associate, Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, February 1995 – September 1996.
Adviser: Prof. Stephen D. Senturia
• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, December, 1994.
Thesis: A New Design Paradigm for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems and Investigations on Compliant Mechanism Synthesis.
Adviser: Prof. Sridhar Kota
• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, March 1991.
Thesis: Geometry Based Analysis and Optimal Synthesis of the RSCR Spatial Mechanism.
Adviser: Prof. Steven N. Kramer
• B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai (Madras), India, May 1989.
Adviser: Prof. K. Lakshiminarayana (for the final-year project)

Experience
• Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2009 Jul. – Present.
• Co-chair, Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineeting, IISc, 2015 June-Present.
• Associate Faculty, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, IISc, 2014 Nov.- Present.
• Associate Faculty, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, IISc, 2007 Aug. – Present.
• Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc, 2004 Aug.- Jun. 2009.
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2004 Aug.-Jul. 2008.
• Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2002 Jul.- Jul. 2004
• Jun. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1996 Sep.-2002.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1995 Feb.-1996 Sep.
• Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 1991 Jan. -1994 Dec.

Research Area
MEMS/NEMS, MEMS and NEMS Sensors, Fundamental research in NEMS/MEMS

Patents
P1. Title: Microturbomachinery
Patent number: 5932940
Filing date: Nov 15, 1996
Issue date: Aug 3, 1999
Inventors: Alan H. Epstein, Stephen D. Senturia, Ian A. Waitz, Jeffrey H. Lang, Stuart A. Jacobson, Fredric F. Ehrich, Martin A. Schmidt, G. K. Ananthasuresh, Mark S. Spearing, Kenneth S. Breuer, Steven F. Nagle

P2. Title: Microturbomachinery (Enhanced claims of an earlier patent)
Patent number: 6392313
Filing date: Jul 15, 1999
Issue date: May 21, 2002
Inventors: Alan H. Epstein, Stephen D. Senturia, Ian A. Waitz, Jeffrey H. Lang, Stuart A. Jacobson, Fredric F. Ehrich, Martin A. Schmidt, G. K. Ananthasuresh, Mark S. Spearing, Kenneth S. Breuer, Steven F. Nagle

P3. Title: Percutaneous heart valve
United States Patent number: US 7,621,948 B2
Issue date: Nov. 24, 2009
Inventors: Howard C. Herrmann, Nilesh Mankame, Suresh G.K. Ananthasuresh

P4. Title: MEMS switch with bistable element having straight beam components
Application number: 10/922,481
Publication number: US 2007/0188846 A1
Filing date: Aug 20, 2004
Inventors: James Melvin Slicker, Ananthakrishnan Surianarayanan, G K Ananthasuresh

P5. Title: Compliant platforms to generate amplified displacements, compliant platform for sensing applied motion and method of designing DaCM.
Application number: 01136/CHE/2008 (India)
Publication number: IP08216
Filing date: Prior to Nov. 1, 2008
Inventors: G.K. Ananthasuresh and Dinesh Mana

P6. Title: Non-pneumatic tire
Application number: 2204/CHE/2009
Publication number: IPA0361
Filing date: Oct. 9, 2009
Inventors: G.K. Ananthasuresh and G. Bhargav

P7. Title: “Article holder”,
Application number: 729/CHE/2010
Publication number: IPA0362
Filing date: Oct. 9, 2009
Inventors: G.K. Ananthasuresh and G. Ramu

P8. Title: A method for recognizing gestures using an Accelerometer mounted onto a wearable device
Application number: 5699/CHE/2013
Publication number:
Filing date: Dec. 10, 2013
Inventors: Dhruv Saxena, Hiteshwara Rao, Pragati Mehrotra, Anand Putambekar, G. K. Ananthasuresh

P9 Title: A device for simulating endscopy and a systems thereof
Application number: 3439/CHE/2014
Publication number:
Filing date: 11/07/2014 (provisional), 11/07/2015 (complete), PCT/1B2015/055251
Inventors: Shanthanu Chakravarthy, Ashwin Rao, and, G. K. Ananthasuresh