dr. guruprasad rao · his industrial assignments include titan, tanishq, crompton greaves and...
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Dr. Guruprasad Rao is a Director & Mentor (Leadership Team) at Imaginarium India Pvt. Ltd., Asia's largest 3D printing company. His current focus is on Medical Applications and DfAM besides technology mentoring, and technology partnerships across domains.
Dr. Rao is a technocrat with over 30 years of experience encompassing Industry & Academia. He holds BE (Mech) with PG in Tool Engineering from GTTC , M.Des in Product Design from IISc, Bengaluru and PhD from IIT Bombay. For his terminal degree, he worked on Medical applications of 3D Printing. He is also currently pursuing Medical Law at NLSIU.
His industrial assignments include Titan, Tanishq, Crompton Greaves and presently at Imaginarium. He joined Imaginarium as CEO and is presently designated as Mentor - Director. He has taught design at IISc, NIFT, JSSATE and NTTF. He was Professor & Head, Project Office IICD, Jaipur.
He has bagged many awards including 3 Gold medallions. As an accomplished industrial designer, he holds 8 patents and 100 plus design registrations. His research interests include product design, product aesthetics, design management, 3D printing and its applications in the medical domain.
He is a Member of the FICCI capital goods committee. He is a trained Assessor for CII-EFQM Business Excellence Award , Member, Board of Studies, NIT Warangal. He is a Member, Board of Studies, Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management & Engineering, Industry Member, Academic Council, Terna Enineering College, Navi Mumbai, Industry Member, Academic Council, DJSCE, Mumbai, Mentor, KIIT Technology Business Incubator Bhubaneswar, Mentor, SIBD at AIIMS, New Delhi, Industry Partner with BETiC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Mentor at SINE, IIT Bombay, Review Member, NASSCOM Sector Skill Council. He was a part of the Grand Jury for the 6 th and 7th Manufacturing Excellence Awards hosted by Manufacturing Today. He is an Adjacent Faculty of Engineering at RGIET, Mumbai. Member, Advisory Board of the MIT-WPU School of Design. He is a Mentor of Change, AIM, NITI Aayog ( MOC-1687) and Member, CII National Committee on Design (2019-2020). Mentor for GDC's I-NCUBATE program.
His hobbies include Ham Radio, Astronomy, Painting, Photography, Jewellery Design, Model Making and Cooking.
Email : Contact : +91- 9930069776 Web: [email protected]
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