Work Experience
1. Assistant Professor at Department of Design at Indian Institute of Technology
Hyderabad from December 2013 to till date.
2. Visiting Researcher at Mechanical Engineering Department, Politecnico di Milano,
Italy, from May 2014 to July 2014
3. Assistant Professor at Department of Design at Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati from June 2013 to December 2013
4. Project Associate at Indian Institute at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore from
August 2012 to May 2013
Academics
1. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA, in the year 2013
2. Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Product Design and Manufacturing form
Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, INDIA, in the year 2006.
3. Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Mechanical Engineering from Karnatak
University, Dharwad, INDIA, in the year 2001.
Research Highlights
. Development of desktop based virtual environment for 3D sketching
. Development of sketching application for Touch Screen Tablets
. Development and implementation of perceptual and Hierarchical sketch
segmentation algorithms for higher dimensional product sketches
. Development of sketch enabled collaborative conceptual design system
. Heand Mounted Display devices evaluation for their effectiveness for realistic 3D
immersion experiences for 3D sketching.
. Electromagnetic tracker based anthropometric measurements for assembly
evaluation
. Exposure to working with devices like Phantom Haptic devices, Immerson's Cyber
Gloves, Cyber Touch and Cyber Force, e-MAgin and NVIS HMDs, Wacom
Tablets, Polhemus electromagnetic trackers Range scanners, data gloves and
eye trackers.
Publications
International Journals:
1. Prasad S. Onkar and Dibakar Sen, "Functional Segmentation of strokes for Product
Sketch Understanding", International Journal of Shape Modeling, issue 1&2, vol.16,
pp 9-38, 2010. URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0218654310001262
2. Prasad S. Onkar and Dibakar Sen, "Direct 3D Sketching with Haptic and
MotionConstraints", International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and
Technology, Volume 8, No. 1/2, pp 33-55, 2016
3. Prasad S. Onkar and Dibakar Sen, "Behaviour Simulation in Computer Aided
Product Concept Sketching", CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and
Technology. (Accepted, under revision) 2013
International Conferences:
1. Semantics-aware support for Computer Aided Conceptual Design of Mechanical
systems, Design Semantics -2014, Bari, Italy, 2014.
2. Prasad S. Onkar and Dibakar Sen, "Issues in sketch based collaborative conceptual
design", International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD'13), Chennai,
2013.
3. Prasad S. Onkar and Dibakar Sen, "Constrained 3D Sketching with Haptics and
Active Motion Annotation" TMCE2012, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2012
4. Prasad S. Onkar and Dibakar Sen, "Behaviour simulation in computer aided product
concept sketching", CIRP Design, Bangalore 2012. (Received most distinguished
paper award)
5. S. Moya, D. Sen, A. Dawari and P.S. Onkar, "Mapping Joint ROM on a Cube Using
Electromagnetic Trackers", 1st International Conference on Digital Human Modeling,
Lyon, France, 2011.
6. Prasad S. Onkar and Dibakar Sen, "Functional Segmentation of strokes for Product
Sketch Understanding" TMCE2010, Ancona, Italy, 2010 (Nominated for best paper
award)
7. Prasad S. Onkar and Dibakar Sen, "A Review of Product Sketching in Early Phases
of Design", International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD'09),
Bangalore, 2009.
8. Prasad S. Onkar and S.C.Pilli, "DFA Analysis of Industrial Washing Machine: a case
study" Engineering Design India 2007 International Conference, Bangalore, 2007.
National Conferences:
1.Fabin Rasheed, Prasad Onkar, and Marisha Narula. 2015. Immersive virtual reality to enhance the spatial awareness of students. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on HCI, IndiaHCI 2015 (IndiaHCI'15). ACM, NY, USA, 154-160. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2835966.2836288
2. Prasad S. Onkar, "A review of world-class manufacturing methods", national
conference on Modern Trends in Management", Belgaum, 2004
Awards and Recognitions
1. MAA Communications Medal (Best Thesis Award) for Ph.D. thesis at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2016
2. European Union's Erasmus Mundus programme HERITAGE Fellowship, 2013
3. Most Distinguished paper award, 22nd CIRP Design Conference, 2012
4. Nominated for Best paper Award, 8th Symposium on Tools and Methods for
Competitive Engineering (TMCE), 2010
Contact Details
Dr. Prasad S. Onkar
Assistant Professor
Department of Design
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Kandi - 502285
Sangareddy Mandal
Telangana, India
E-mail: psonkar@iith.ac.in