Biography

Dr. Jitendra Prasad is currently working with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar as an Associate Professor. After graduating with a B.Tech.(Hons.) from IIT Kharagpur in 1997, he worked with Indian Register of Shipping at Mumbai for 4 years. He then did his M.Eng. at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. With a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University (MSU), he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine at the University of Washington at Seattle. In April 2011, he joined IIT Ropar as an Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. Prasad's research is focused on computational engineering applied to design, analysis, innovation and discovery. In particular, he is interested in areas spanning applied mechanics, engineering design, optimization, bone biology and biomechanics. His research group at IIT Ropar is particularly focused on development of novel theoretical and computer models of bone fracture healing and bone’s adaptation to exogenous mechanical loading.

Dr. Prasad has been the founding member of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Program at IIT Ropar, and has officially served as the Coordinator of the BME Program, which was the precursor to the Department of Biomedical Engineering existing today at IIT Ropar. He has also been interested in curriculum development and pedagogy, and was the chairman of the committee that developed new undergraduate curriculum, which has been implemented at IIT Ropar starting 2017.

With effect from June 2021, Dr. Prasad has been serving IIT Ropar as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies.

Work Experience

• Senior Fellow, Department of Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 06/2007 - 04/2011

• Assistant Ship Surveyor, Indian Register of Shipping, Head Office, Powai, Mumbai, 07/1997 - 06/2001

Selected Publications

1. Prasad, J. and Diaz, A.R., 2006, Synthesis of bistable periodic structures using topology optimization and a genetic algorithm, Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 128, pp. 1298-1306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2338576

2. Tai, K. and Prasad, J., 2007, Target-matching test problem for multiobjective topology optimization using genetic algorithms, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol.34, No.4, pp.333-345. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00158-006-0082-2.

3. Prasad, J. and Diaz, A.R., 2008, A concept for a material that softens with frequency, Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 130, No. 9, pp. 1298-1306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2965596.

4. Prasad, J. and Diaz, A.R., 2009, Viscoelastic material design with negative stiffness components using topology optimization, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 38(6), pp. 583-597. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00158-008-0308-6.4

5. Gross, T.S., Poliachik, S.L., Prasad, J., and Bain, S.D., 2010, “The effect of muscle dysfunction on bone mass and morphology,” Journal of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 25-34. http://www.ismni.org/jmni/pdf/39/04GROSS.pdf.

6. Prasad, J., Wiater, B.P., Nork, S.E., Bain, S.D. and Gross, T.S., 2010, “Characterizing gait induced normal strains in a murine tibia cortical bone defect model,” Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 43 (14), pp. 2765-2770. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.06.030.

7. Srinivasan, S., Ausk, B.J., Prasad, J., Threet, D., Bain, S.D., Richardson, T.S. and Gross, T.S., 2010, “Rescuing loading induced bone formation at senescence,” PLoS Computational Biology, Vol. 6 (9), e1000924. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000924.

8. Moustafa, A., Sugiyama, T., Prasad, J., Zaman, G., Gross, T.S., Lanyon, L.E., Price, J.S., 2012, "Mechanical loading-related changes in osteocyte sclerostin expression in mice are more closely associated with the subsequent osteogenic response than the peak strains engendered," Osteoporosis International, vol. 23 (4), pp. 1225-1234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-011-1656-4

9. Tiwari, A. K., and Prasad J., 2013, “Investigating the Role of Shear Strain in Bone Adaptation”, Indian Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 4 (1), pp. 26- 34.

10. Prasad, J., 2013, "The Night of Mentorship", Muse India, Issue 47, Jan-Feb 2013. http://museindia.com//MuseIndiaClient/MuseIndiaUI//MuseIndia/getarticle?menuid=3941

11. Tiwari, A. K., and Prasad J., 2016, “Computer Modelling of Bone’s Adaptation to Mechanical Environment: The Role of Normal Strain, Shear strain and Fluid Flow”, Biomechanics And Modeling In Mechanobiology, Vol. 16 (2), pp. 395–410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-016-0824-z

12. Prasad, J., 2017, "Professors Gone Wild", Amazon KDP. https://www.amazon.com/Professors-Gone-Wild-Jitendra-Prasad-ebook/dp/B0738KV947

13. Prasad, J., Goswami, A., Kumbhani, B., Mishra, C., Tyagi, H., Jun, J.H., Choudhary, K.K., Kumar, M., James, N., Reddy, V.R.S., Singh, S.J., Kashyap, D., Sohoni, M., DasGupta, N., Raina, P.K., Saha, S.K., Mittal, S., Chakraborty, S., Das, S.K., 2018, "Engineering curriculum development based on education theories", Current Science, Vol. 114 (9), pp. 1829-1834. http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/114/09/1829.pdf

14. Prasad, J., and Tiwari, A.K., 2018, "Finding the difference between periosteal and endocortical bone adaptation by using Artificial Neural Networks," bioRxiv 357871. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/06/28/357871