Anupam Saxena

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Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Specialization

Mechanical Engineering

Research Interest

Compliant Mechanisms, Topology Design, CAD, Robotics, MEMs, Optimization, Large Deformation Systems.

Education

Ph. D.,University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2000
Thesis Title:Pending
Thesis Supervisor:Pending
M. S., University of Toledo, USA ,1997 1995-1997
B. Tech, Mechanical Engineering, IIT, Bombay, 1995

Saxena, A., Valero-Cuevas, F., J., Lipson, H., 2012, “Functional inference of complex anatomical tendinous
networks at a macroscopic scale via sparse experimentation,” PLOS Computational Biology, 8(11): p.1-17.
Saxena A. and Sauer, R.A, 2012, “On combined Gradient-Stochastic Search for Topology Synthesis using
the Material Mask Overlay Method,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, in
press.DOI: 10.1002/nme.4401
Reddy, BVS Nagendra, Sujitkumar V. Naik and Saxena, A., 2012, “Systematic Synthesis of Large Displacement
Contact Aided Monolithic Compliant Mechanisms,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 134(1),
pp.011007-1-12.
Shinde, V. R, Dutta, A., Saxena., A, 2013, “Experiments on multi-agent capture of a moving object using
projective path planning,” Robotica, 31(2),pp. 267-284
Saxena, A. and Ananthasuresh, G. K., 2000, On an Optimality Property of Compliant Topologies, Structural
and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 19 (1), pp. 36-49.