Dr. (Ms) Manju Nanda | Chief Scientist

With over 26 years of service for CSIR delivering significant impact in the field of safety critical systems for aerospace applications. Some of significant contributions include:
1. Design- Development and certification of the indigenously developed Stall Warning System for SARAS PT1N
2. Independent Verification and Validation of SARAS Automatic flight control system (AFCS) application software and Engine indication and crew alerting system (EICAS) as per RTCA DO-178B Level A criticality.
3. Developed the state-of-the-art Integrated Formal Method Framework to aid Design-Development of a safety critical software using model-based, formal method-based, and conventional techniques for the Software Development Lifecycle Process (SDLC). The framework ensures that the SDLC techniques selected will deliver a highly reliable software.
4. Established the Model-Based SDLC process as per RTCA DO-178C, and DO-331. Implementing the indigenous IAFCC software for SARAS MK-II.
Abstract of Talk:
Topic:
“Model Based Software Engineering For Flight Software- CSIR-NAL Story”
Speaker will share the experience of “Transition from Document-Centric SDLC to Model-Centric SDLC for Flight Software”, learnings of this paradigm shift, challenges and advantages with the projects carried out and being carried out at NAL.

Jawahar Bhalla | Principal | JB Engineering Systems and iPhD Candidate, University of Adelaide & Shoal Group.

JB is a passionate Systems professional with over 30 years’ experience across multi-national organisations in technical and strategic leadership roles. He contributes to the advancement of Systems Thinking, Systems Engineering and Modelling & Simulation locally and globally as foundational enablers to understanding complexity for a better, safer world.
He is the Technical Director of INCOSEs’ Australian Chapter, SESA, a past member of the SimAust Board and a founding member and past Chair of the SimAust Professional Development Committee.
He has a BE in Aerospace Engineering and a BSc in Computer Science from UNSW, a Masters’ in Systems Engineering from UNSW@ADFA and is a current iPhD candidate on an Australian Government Research Training Program scholarship, with industry partner Shoal Group, at the University of Adelaide, Australia focused on a framework for the Systems Engineering of AI-Intensive Systems.
He has 24 technical papers published and has delivered numerous presentations, tutorials, workshops and sessions on systems concepts, systems engineering and Modelling & Simulation
Panel:
Future of Digital Engineering

Muralikrishna Menon | Site leader: Infusion preparation and Delivery | Becton Dickinson Technology campus, India

Over 20 + years’ Experience in Design and Development of High Technology Medical diagnostic and therapeutic equipment’s like CPAP, Ultrasound scanning machines, High voltage X-ray generators, Subsystems for MRI scanning machines like MRI Scan room interface, Radiation therapy Planning systems, MRI assisted Brain surgery patient handling systems, infusion preparation and delivery product lines etc. has had opportunity to setup, develop systems engineering teams for worldwide medical device companies like BD, Medtronic, etc. in India and successfully drive global product development from India. Murali has had opportunity in implementing and leveraging benefits of MBSE in a green field product development during his career.

Saket Kulkarni

Saket is currently heading the Medical BU at Agiliad Technologies towards building product engineering services teams for global medical devices customers. A post-graduate from Biomedical Engineering Department of University of Akron, Ohio, USA and his research was in the area of biometrics and facial expression analysis using CNNs.
With 18 years' experience in medical devices’ R&D applied in areas of Imaging physics, System Engineering, Image Analysis Solutions, Imaging Framework Architecture for various domains like Radiology, Pathology, Interventional X-ray and Biometric Applications. Saket has been part of engineering teams with various modalities , Computed tomography, Interventional x-ray, PET/CT and Radiation Oncology, Digital Pathology:
Saket is very well versed in product development processes involved in the design and development of Medical Imaging Applications, Medical Devices and Product platforms. Additionally, he has worked with service-based companies as well as product-based-companies & has global work-experience having worked in different geographic locations (India, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, China & The Netherlands) for leading healthcare companies like GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, Toshiba Medical, Elekta Oncology and Bioimagene Inc (now Roche Diagnostics).

Rajesh Singh | Lead Systems Engineer, MBSE | Boeing India Engineering

Over 16 years’ experience across multi-national organisations in technical, pre-sales and leadership roles. He contributes to the development of the next generation digital engineering framework, supports the program, adopts a modelling approach while managing the system configuration and supports the test and integration plan. He has experience deploying DevOps with major defence houses, automotive suppliers, medical domains; adopting the safety analysis with the system architecture. Working to achieve the digital thread and the ultimate digital system model. He has a BE in Electronics and communication and a diploma from C-CDAC Bangalore. He has published white papers and has delivered numerous presentations, workshops and sessions on system concept and modelling and simulation.

Dr. Sukanta Bhatt

Dr. Sukanta Bhatt holds a Master's and Ph.D. (Maths/algo) from IIT Kharagpur. He has 30 years of experience spanning academics, MCAD and Healthcare software products, and Medical device design and development. At Philips, Dr. Bhatt was the part design of seven medical device NPDs. He played various roles like Dept Manager - System Engineering, System Design, UX Design, Image Chain, Approbation, System V&V, and Clinical Analysis. Last three years, he has been building capability in Systems Thinking, has a certification from MIT, and has conducted multiple workshops for hundreds of engineers in Philips India.

Professor Bhaskar Tamma | Department of Mechanical Engineering Mahindra Ecole Centrale

ACADEMIC
• Masters: IIT Chennai: Experiments: Bio fuel usage in Diesel engines
• Ph.D: IIT Chennai: Phenomenological modeling of Diesel Combustion, Soot &NOx emission
EXPERIENCE:
Industry 20 years
• 2 years at Mahindra & Mahindra Tractor R&D, Mumbai, India
• 18 years as Principal Engineer, Thermo-Sciences lab, GE Global Research Centre, Bangalore, India
• Project leader, Program proposals/planning/execution, Leading multi-disciplinary global teams, Innovator, New technology evaluation, Emission Forecasting, Technology forecasting, Mentoring, Collaborations

Suraj Kamath

Over 20 years of Global leadership experience in diverse domains from Automotive, Aviation, Software , Locomotives to Healthcare and functions from Customer Service, R&D, Reliability Engineering, Software , Project & Product Management.
Currently Leading the Systems Engineering R&D function at Philips Mobile Surgery Business and responsible for end to end product development & design.

Arya Kumar Bhattacharya | Professor, Ecole Centrale School of Engineering (Computer Science) | Dean, Research and Development | Mahindra University, Hyderabad

Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering | Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Master of Technology in Computational Mechanics | Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Integrated M.Sc (5-year) in Mathematics | Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Research
Machine Learning, particularly applications in monitoring, control and optimization, Physics Informed Neural Networks
• Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms – Multi-objective, Multi-disciplinary
• Neuro-Evolution
• Game Theory
• Aerospace – Aerodynamics, Flight Mechanics, Controls
• Cyber-physical systems – IoT, Real-time systems, Automation.

Sudarsan Rachuri PhD | Technology Manager Advanced Manufacturing Office | Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Department of Energy

A Technology Manager in the Advanced Manufacturing Office, EERE, and DOE. He is the Federal Program Manager for the CESMII. Before joining DOE, he was the program manager at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and also a research professor at George Washington University and worked in the CAD/CAE/PLM software industry.
Dr. Rachuri is the Editor-in-Chief of ASTM Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems journal. Rachuri is the founding member and was the vice-chair of the ASTM subcommittee on sustainable manufacturing (E60.13) and a member of the ASTM Smart Manufacturing Advisory Committee. Rachuri is the founding member and the Chair of the standards committee on ASME V&V 50 Verification and Validation of Computational Modeling for Advanced Manufacturing. Dr. Rachuri was a member of many ISO and ASME standards committees.
Dr. Rachuri is a Fellow of ASME and AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science). Dr. Rachuri received the 2016 ASTM International President’s Leadership Award. Dr. Rachuri won first prize in the 2017 World Standards Day (WSD) Paper Competition, awarded by The Society for Standards Professionals. Dr. Sudarsan Rachuri was recently honored with the Excellence in Research Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Division.

Raghavendra Bhatt | Technical Manager at ANSYS SBU – India

Raghavendra Bhat is Technical Manager for India, South East Asia at ANSYS SBU.
Prior to ANSYS, he has worked for Esterel, IBM, Telelogic etc. and has 20+ years of professional. experience. He has experience with Software Development LifeCycle including Requirements Management, Software Configuration Management, Model Based design and development of Safety Critical, Embedded Real Time Systems and Testing.
He has a master’s degree in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology, BE in Electronics and Communications from VTU and a Diploma in Electronics. He is also OMG Certified UML and SysML professional and TUV SuD certified functional safety engineer.

Niranjan M | General Manager –Technical | Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited

Niranjan comes with 25+ years of rich experience in Research & Development, Technical services, Innovation, New product development and Systems Engineering. Niranjan is also a Leadership Trainer & Coach.
Niranjan is currently responsible for Transformation of Leaders and Engineers in Product development and Systems Engineering.
He played a key role as Chief expert in Bosch in development of ECUs for India, China, CV & OHW market. During this tenure, Niranjan lead multiple teams in Systems, Embedded SW & HW which is key for Systems Engineering.
Prior to Bosch, Niranjan worked in Tata Motors’ Engineering Research Centre and contributed substantially in products like Safari DICOR, CV & Defence vehicle systems. Here in TML, Niranjan applied systems Engineering in development to Fully Electronic Control Common Rail Engine system and thereby successfully developed Powertrain systems.

Ravi Rajamani, PhD, FSAE, FIMechE

Ravi Rajamani is an independent consultant working on applying model-based and data analytical techniques to aerospace systems, including modern ones involving electric propulsion and autonomy. He has published six books, and is the author of many book chapters, journal papers, conference proceedings, and patents. Prior to his current job, Ravi worked at Meggitt, UTC and GE. He has a PhD from University of Minnesota, an MBA from University of Connecticut, an MSc from IISc, Bangalore, and a BTech from IIT, Delhi. He is active within various SAE technical committees and serves as the chair of the IVHM steering group. He currently serves as the Editor in Chief of the SAE International Journal of Aerospace and is part of the editorial board of two other journals. He has a visiting research position at the University of Connecticut and has been elected a fellow of SAE and of IMechE.

Paramjit Singh Bhatia | Director Engineering, Avionics & Applied Research Technologies

Vijay Doddavaram | Director Engineering, Digital Technologies

Sheetal Shetty | Senior Manager HR

Melvin George | Communication Specialist