Rudra Pratap 24th Australian Conference on Microscopy and Microanalysis 2016

Rudra Pratap

Dr Rudra Pratap is a Professor and the Chairperson of the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), and an associate faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Dr Rudra Pratap specializes in MEMS and NEMS design. He is currently involved in several MEMS device developments that include MEMS microphones, ultrasound transducers and inertial systems. His research group has carried out extensive studies of energy dissipation in dynamic MEMS devices and developed comprehensive models of damping in such devices. He is keenly interested in MEMS based energy harvesting technologies. Apart from MEMS and NEMS, his research interests include nonlinear dynamics, mechano-biology, and computational mechanics. Dr. Rudra Pratap holds a Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, USA, a Masters degree from the University of Arizona, USA, and a B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Prior to joining IISc in 1996, he taught at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, for two and a half years. He was also an ‘Invited Professor’ at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland during 2004-2005. He has been at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, since 1996. He is a member of the Vision Group on Nanotechnology of Karnataka State. He has served on the editorial board of various journals and is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of MEMS, USA, and the Journal of ISSS, India. Dr. Pratap has published over 150 papers in journals and conference proceedings and has three books to his credit. Dr. Pratap is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering.