Innovative Design, Analysis and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering

Dr. Nicolas Gascoin is Director at INSA Centre Val de Loire (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, ex ENSI Bourges), France. He holds a Ph.D. in the area of Scramjet cooling by endothermal reactive fuel from MBDA-EADS, Bourges (France). He has published more than 50 papers in international, peer-reviewed journals and attended 90 international conferences. He has also served as an advisor for postdoc and research engineers since 2007. Dr. Gascoin has coordinated numerous major research projects

Dr. Esakki Balasubramanian completed his Ph.D. in Robotics and Control at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He has more than fifteen years of research experience and conducted various funded projects under the aegis of DST, DRDO and ISRO, Government of India. He has collaborated with scientists in Taiwan, Canada and Korea in the development of flapping and rotary wing UAVs for diverse applications, including inspection of bridges, heritage structures,telecom towers, power line cables, monitoring of traffic signals, environment and water quality inspections. He also developed a test rig to measure aerodynamic forces of ornithopters and powder-based additive manufacturing systems. He has won several national and international competitions. He is in editorial board member and reviewer for various journals. His research interests include UAVs, robotics, rapid prototyping, control and sensors with online data acquisition. He has published more than 100 research papers, two books and filed many patents.