This workshop is being run by Visiting Research Dr. Pushparaj Mani Pathak  who is a Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India. He was graduated from National Institute of Technology Calicut, India in 1988 in Mechanical Engineering. He completed his M. Tech in Solid Mechanics and Design from IIT, Kanpur in 1998. Later he was awarded the PhD degree from IIT, Kharagpur in 2005. His areas of research are Robotics, Dynamics, Control, and Bond Graph Modelling. He is in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, IIT, Roorkee since 2006. He has co-authored a book on Intelligent Mechatronic Systems: Modeling, Control and Diagnosis published by Springer, London in year 2012. His two MOOCs course through National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), on Mechatronics and Modelling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems are very popular. He is founder of a start-up RoboLife Private Limited. The start-up works in taking robotics products developed in robotics lab to market. He is a Member of ASME and IFToMM Technical committee for Multi Body Dynamics.