Jubilee Talk 2025 - Professor Amaresh Chakrabarti

Amaresh Chakrabarti is a Senior-Professor & Chair, Department of Design & Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has BE (Mechanical-Engineering, IIEST-Shibpur), ME (Mechanical-Design, IISc) and PhD (Engineering-Design, University of Cambridge UK). His interests are in synthesis, creativity, sustainability, informatics, research-methodology and Industry 4.0. He published 36 books, 350 peer-reviewed articles and 13 patents. He co-authored DRM, a methodology used widely as for design-research. He is the Editor-in-Chief, AI EDAM Journal. 25 of his papers won top-paper awards in international-conferences. He served on the Advisory-Board and Board of Management, Design Society UK. He founded India’s first Design-Observatory (IdeasLab), (co-)initiated India’s first International Conference-Series on Design-Research (ICoRD) and indigenous Smart-Factory (I4I@IISc). He heads IISc-Press and Springer Book-Series 'Design-Science & Innovation', and chaired Smart-Manufacturing Sub-committee, Bureau of Indian-Standards. He received Careers360 2018 Faculty-Award for 'Most Outstanding Researcher' in Decision-Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship and Lundgren Award, University of Cambridge UK; ORS-Award, Committee of Vice-Chancellors UK; UK MG-MIAA Commendation Award; and Jubilee-Professorship, Chalmers University of Technology Sweden. He received 2022 IISc Alumni-Award for Excellence in Research in Engineering. He is an Honorary-Fellow, Institution of Engineering-Designers UK; a Fellow of the Design Society; a TUM Ambassador-Awardee from TUM Germany. He is the Founding president of DeScIn - India's Academy of Design Sciences. He is the recipient of the 2025 ASME Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award.

Title of the talk: Innovation, Design, Manufacturing and Industry X.0

Abstract: 
Starting with a brief look at the evolving landscape of manufacturing, the talk will focus on the importance of innovation in manufacturing and economic growth, and the significance of design as the engine for success in innovation. The talk then delves into the role of Industry X.0, and the recent trends in the world of manufacturing. Finally the talk brings these two strands of discussion (on design and on manufacturing) together, and proposes an integrated digital framework that is needed to support seamless, development and delivery of complex advanced systems that have quality, affordability, and sustainability. The talk demonstrates some of the work along the proposed directions that are already taking at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India.