Anand Y. Joshi

Dr. Anand Y Joshi is currently working as a Professor at the Mechatronics Engineering Department, G.H.Patel College of Engineering & Technology, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India. He completed his Ph.D. in 2011 from the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. His research areas include areas of vibration, nano biosensors, nanomechanics, fracture mechanics, computational mechanics, functionally graded material, carbon nanotubes, optimization, finite element analysis etc. He is credited with more than 50 publications in various journals and conferences of high reputation, including one of his articles published by Nature India and an article published in journal Physica E: Low Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, Elsevier Publishers (this article is one of top 25 hottest articles and the most cited article in the journal since 2008). He is a recipient of a number of research grants of more than Rs. 25 Lacs, including the start-up research grant which is awarded to Young Scientists below the age of 35 years by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. Of India, New Delhi for his project on Computational Investigation of Dynamic Characteristics of Carbon Nanotubes for Atomic Scale Sensing of Objects. His overseas presence includes (i) Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Food and Biosystems Engineering, ISSN: 2408-0675, supported by Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, The Technological Research Center of Thessally and the Laboratory of the Food and Biosystems Engineering of TEI of Thessaly, Greece; (ii) International Technical Programme Committee member for the The Second International Conference on Advances in Sensors, Actuators, Metering and Sensing, ALLSENSORS 2017 March 19 - 23, 2017.