Amaresh Chakrabarti is a Professor of Engineering Design at Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has a BE in Mechanical Engineering from University of Calcutta, India, ME in Mechanical Systems Design from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a PhD from University of Cambridge, UK in Engineering Design. After PhD, Prof. Chakrabarti led for ten years the Design Synthesis team at the EPSRC Centre for Excellence Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge, before joining Indian Institute of Science. Prof. Chakrabarti has worked extensively in the areas of design synthesis and creativity, eco-design and sustainability, and knowledge engineering and management, and has written over two hundred papers in peer-reviewed journals, conferences and books.
He has written/edited six books, two of which have been published by Springer. He is the co-author of DRM - a design research methodology used widely around the world as a framework for carrying out engineering design research. Prof. Chakrabarti is an Associate Editor of AI EDAM Journal (Cambridge University Press), Area Editor for Research in Engineering Design Journal (Springer), Regional Editor for Journal for Remanufacturing (Springer), and Advisory Editor for Journal of Engineering Design (Taylor & Francis), Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (Springer), International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation (Taylor & Francis), and four other journals.
He is on the Advisory Board of Design Society, UK. He founded IDeASLab - the first laboratory in India for research into design creativity, sustainability and innovation. A Member of the CII National Committee on Design, India, he is also Programme chair for International Conferences on Research into Design (ICoRD), and a vice-Chair for AI in Design (AID) and Design Computing and Cognition (DCC) Conferences. Prof. Chakrabarti is an Honorary Fellow of theInstitution of Engineering Designers, UK.