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Keynote Sessions
IDETC/CIE
Kemper Lewis
University at Buffalo
Biography: Kemper Lewis is Professor and Chair of the Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and also holds an appointment
as Professor in the Department of Management Science and Systems at
the University at Buffalo (UB). In addition, he serves as the Director of the
Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies (SMART)
Community of Excellence and as a Site Director of the National Center for
e-Design at UB. His research focuses on foundational issues in decision
making in engineering design and his contributions have spanned
complex decision networks, tradeoff models, adaptive systems, and
design analytics. He has published over 200 articles in journals,
conference proceedings, and books and is a fellow of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers. In recognition of his scholarship in
design research and education, he has received awards from ASME,
SAE, ASEE, AIAA, NSF, NASA, and the State of New York.
Ritesh Khire
84.51° LLC
Biography: Ritesh is a Senior Research Scientist and leader of the optimization this curricular effort into disciplines of engineering and design is important
group within the Science department of 84.51° LLC (a customer science
organization within Kroger). His primary research includes developing
efficient methodologies for large-scale data-driven optimization problems.
The majority of these problems involve 108 to 1012 mixed-integer decision
variables, where the underlying models are derived from one or more
sophisticated Machine Learning techniques, such as regular & logistic
regressions, random forest, neural networks, re-enforcement learning,
dynamic linear models, recursive least square models, etc. The application
areas include price and promotion optimization, customer personalization,
trade fund optimization, inventory management, and many others. Many of
these problems include both static and real time aspects of decision
making. Ritesh has been exploring decomposition based optimization
approaches that blend traditional (gradient based) optimization techniques
with non-traditional techniques (e.g. Bayesian optimization, GA, PSO, etc.)
to solve these large-scale problems. He is also interested in high-
performance computing and GPU computing.
Ritesh obtained his PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2006
under the guidance of Prof. Achille Messac. In the past, Ritesh has been
invited as special speaker for the 2010 NSF panel on future of MDO and for
the 2008 ASME-IDETC panel on System integration tools. He is an active
member of the DAC conference and has organized many special sessions
over the last 10 years. Ritesh has published a collection of book chapters,
journal & conference papers, and patents over the last decade. Prior to
joining 84.51, Ritesh was a Staff Research Scientist at United Technologies
Research Center for over 8 years, where his research primarily focused on
optimization of engineering systems.
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DEC KEYNOTE
Monday, August 7
11:00am–12:00pm
Room 23
Sunand Bhattacharya
Autodesk, Inc.
“Radical Collaboration by Design in Engineering Education”
Abstract: The culture of innovation in the classroom has been spreading
rapidly across all levels of education and challenging the boundaries of
classical design and engineering studies. The greatest potential for
companies like Autodesk to serve design-related-education exists at the
intersection of three convergences:
• Designing, Making, and Using
• Infinite Computing, Digital Manufacturing, and The Internet of
Things
• Creating Places, Things, and Media
The future of making and learning things exists at the nexus of these three
convergences. We need radical collaboration if we are to truly address the
nexus of design, make, use; infinite computing, digital manufacturing, and
internet of things; and places, things, and media. Successful integration of
for bridging the gap between education and industry expectations.
Is design-related-education embracing these trend, technologies and new
workflows to holistically address next generation’s desire to innovate?
Biography: As part of the Autodesk Education Experience Group, Sunand
Bhattacharya manages its Learning Futures team. In this role, he is
responsible for the strategy, management and evangelization of
Autodesk’s future influence advocacy in global academia.
Prior to Autodesk, Sunand was the principal and co-founding partner of
Arjuna Learning Designs LLC., a firm specializing in the creation of
interactive learning objects to enhance quality of teaching and learning for
name brand publishing houses. He is also a tenured professor of industrial
design, and has held executive positions at, Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale. Sunand is a recipient of the Innovative Excellence in Teaching,
Learning, and Technology award from The International Conference on
College Teaching and Learning.
Sunand is a graduate in Industrial Design from the National Institute of
Design (NID) in India and holds his terminal graduate degree in Industrial
Design and Human Factors from The Ohio State University.