Satchitanand Kashyap

Personal Data
Place and Date of Birth: Bangalore India | 17-May- 1970
Address: 279, 26th Cross, 9th Main,
BSK 2nd Stage, Bangalore, India, Pin-560070
Phone T : 0-11-91-80-26719864
Mobile H : 0-11-91-9740396135
E-mail k : satchit@alum.rpi.edu

Work Experience
Current Assistant Professor at BMSCE, Bangalore
Jan 2009 I teach B.Tech and M.Tech students in CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM courses.

May 1997-Dec 2008 Freelance Programmer at Linux Community

Developed and maintained open source CAD/CAM programs.

Mar 1997- Mar 2007 Member Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories

Performed Research & Development in Mechanical CAD/CAM, Industrial Design, De-
sign Optimization, Design for Assembly and Manufacture. Performed applied re-
search in the areas of Wireless Handset design & manufacture, Optical networking
design & Manufacture.

Sep 1992- Dec 1996 Senior Lecturer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,

Taught Engineering Graphics and CAD course and Introduction to Engineering De-
sign course.

Education
May 1997 Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer, Troy NY
summa cum laude | Minor: Computer Science | Advisor: Dr. Warren R. DeVries
Thesis: “An Integrated Methodology of Fixture Design, Analysis, and Optimization”
Developed a fixture design package on commercial Pro/ENGINEER CAD package using the Pro/DEVELOP
& Pro/Toolkit API in C/C++, and an fixturing finite element analysis and optimization package on Patran
1.6 using Patran Command Language. Developed and implemented an algorithm for performing
Machining Feature Recognition.
Typeset by Satchitanand Kashyap with XETEX November 20, 2009

May 1994 Master of Science Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer, Troy NY

3.87/4.0 summa cum laude | Minor: Computer Science | Advisor: Joseph A. Pegna
Thesis: “Curvature Continuos Blending using Variable Sweep Modeling”
Developed and implemented algorithms for trimming curves and blending surfaces using
Graphic open GL on Silicon Indigo work-station.

July 1991 Bachelor of Engineering, Bangalore University, Bangalore India

Thesis: “Automatic Generation of 3D solids from 2D Orthographic Views”
Developed and implemented a software to create BREP solid models from 2D orthographic
representations on a PC using C.

Publications
• Primary author for thirteen peer reviewed Journal and Conference papers. Journal as AIAA Journal
for Multidisciplanary Optimization and Structural Optimization, Design Optimization: International Journal for
Process and Product Improvement, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of North American Manufac-
turing Research Institution of SME, IEEE Transactions of Robotics & Automation.
• External Reviewer for Conference and Journal papers including IEEE, ASME, & SME.

Computer Skills
Languages: C, C++, Perl, Bourne shell scripting, BASH shell scripting, HTML, XML, CSS, XHTML, LATEX, XETEX, TEX.
Applications: Proficient in Pro/ENGINEER,CATIA, I-DEAS, Pro/Toolkit, PTC Windchill, ,PATRAN, ANSYS, ACIS(API),
ABAQCUS, Mathematica, Matlab.