About the Author
Bhaskar Dasgupta
is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at
the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
He received his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, in 1997.
His ever-expanding research interests include topics in robotics
such as serial and parallel manipulators, and motion planning methods;
they also include nonlinear optimization, domain mapping, geometric modelling
and protein docking.
In his spare time, he takes a zealous interest in languages, literature,
history and philosophy.
