Lab Director
Dr. Nirav Patel
Assistant Professor, Engineering Design, IIT Madras
INSPIRE Lab is headed by Dr. Nirav Patel. Prior to joining Department of Engineering Design at IIT Madras, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Iulian Iordachita at Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Johns Hopkins University. He received the PhD degree in Robotics Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2017, Dr. Gregory Fischer was his Ph.D advisor. His current research interests include medical robotics, image guided interventions, robot assisted microsurgery, path planning and machine learning.
Graduate Students
Pranali Ingole
Engineering Design, IIT Madras
(Ph.D Candidate)
Naveen Prasad
Engineering Design, IIT Madras
(Ph.D Candidate)
Pratima Mohan
Engineering Design, IIT Madras
(MS Candidate)
Lab Alumni
Mukund Shah
Engineering Design, IIT Madras
(MS 2024)
Present Job: Airport Authority of India
Research Associates
Anurag Mittal
Dual Degree Proects
Bhuma Arunsimha Reddy
Engineering Design, IIT Madras
(B.Tech 2024)
Amit Krishna Daud
Engineering Design, IIT Madras
(B.Tech 2024)
Abhinav Azad
Engineering Design, IIT Madras
Chinmay Raut
Engineering Design, IIT Madras
(B.Tech 2024)
Interns
Sujay Srivastava
Engineering Design, IIT Madras
(B.Tech 2024)
Anirudh R
Engineering Design, IIT Madras
(B.Tech 2024)
Kunal Kashyap
Engineering Design, IIT Madras
(B.Tech 2024)
Jayesh Kumar
Engineering Design, IIT Madras
(B.Tech 2024)
Pranish Ramteke
Engineering Design, IIT Madras
(B.Tech 2024)
Basu Jindal
Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras
(B.Tech 2024)