Nitish Kumar received his B.Tech. degree (2009) in mechanical engineering from Indian institute of technology Bombay (IITB), India. He received Erasmus Mundus scholarship from European commission to pursue his dual M.Sc. degree (2011) in control and robotics from Warsaw university of technology, Poland and Ecole centrale Nantes, France. He holds a Ph.D. degree (2014) in automation and robotics from university of Strasbourg, France where he did his work on mechatronics systems design in the field of medical robotics. His research interests include mechatronics systems design (concept to functional prototypes), type and dimensional synthesis of task-adapted mechanisms (compliant and rigid-body), using screw theory to develop design and optimization tools, kinematics and dynamics analysis of robots and model based control of robots (serial, parallel and floating base). He joined the Agile & Dexterous Robotics Lab and NCCR Digital Fabrication (http://www.dfab.ch/) as a postdoctoral researcher in June 2015.

N. Kumar, “Design and development of devices for robotized needle insertion procedures,” Ph.D. dissertation, Université de Strasbourg, France, 2014. (http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAD024/document)

N. Kumar, O. Piccin, and B. Bayle, “A task-based type synthesis of novel 2T2R parallel mechanisms,” Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 77, pp. 59–72, Jul. 2014. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2014.02.007)

N. Kumar, O. Piccin, L. Meylheuc, L. Barbe, and B. Bayle, “Design and Modeling of a Polymer Force Sensor,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 555–564, Feb. 2016. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2015.2448662)

N. Kumar, O. Piccin, B. Bayle, “Dimensional synthesis of a novel 2T2R parallel manipulator for medical applications”, In ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE) conference, Aug 17-20, Buffalo, New York.(http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/DETC2014-35155)

N. Kumar, O. Piccin, L. Meylheuc, L. Barbe, and B. Bayle, “Design, development and preliminary assessment of a force sensor for robotized medical applications,” In 2014 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2014, pp. 1368–1374. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AIM.2014.6878273)

O. Piccin, N. Kumar, L. Meylheuc, L. Barbe, and B. Bayle, “Design, development and preliminary assessment of grasping devices for robotized medical applications”, In ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE) Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, pp. 65-73, Aug. 2012. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/DETC2012-70634)

O. Piccin, N. Kumar, L. Meylheuc, L. Barbe, B. Bayle, F. Schmitt, Device for grasping an elongated body, such as a needle, and robotized device comprising the same, CIB: A61B17/00; A61B17/34;A61B19/00; B23B31/12; B25J15/08; B25J15/10; B25J15/12 (Feb. 2014). (http://www.google.com/patents/WO2014024038A1?cl=en)