Our Team

Dr. Satvasheel Powar is SJVN Chair Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi. Dr. Powar has expertise in energy with 15+ years of experience in industrial and academic ecosystems. Dr. Powar completed BEng(Production) from Shivaji University and MSc (Mechanical Engineering) from Dalarna University, Sweden. He has served Bipin Engineers Pvt Ltd, India; Greatcell Solar S.A., Switzerland; and G24i, the UK, for about five years. He received his Ph.D. degree from Monash University, Australia. Post Ph.D. before joining IIT Mandi, he continued his research at the Energy research institute @ NTU, Singapore.

During his Ph.D., he was awarded a scholarship from the United States Studies Centre in Sydney to attend a summer course on Entrepreneurship Management at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business in the United States. He was awarded a prestigious Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy fellowship to visit the Lawrence Berkeley Lab at the University of California, Berkeley (2017). In 2021, he was awarded ISTE-Syed Ali national award for contributing to Renewable Energy research.

Dr. Powar has worked on various product development projects, including Himalayan cookstoves, solar thermal-electric hybrid ovens, and AI-based advertisement viewer analysis. Dr. Powar has published over 35 research papers in international peer- reviewed journals with an average impact factor of over 9. He has five grant patents and three designs and 19 pending patent and design applications.

Dr. Murab did his PhD from Centre from Biomedical Engineering, IIT Delhi/ AIIMS New Delhi. He then moved to Tufts University, Boston USA for further research and then to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, USA where he joined as a faculty in 2022. He then moved to his current position at IIT Mandi. He has also worked at the CÚRAM, an SFI Research Centre Designing the Next Generation of 'Smart' Medical Devices at NUI Galway, Ireland.

He holds a WIPO accredited Post Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights. He was also instrumental in providing technical consultancy to Adv. Anand Grover (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health: 2008-2014) on cancer drug invention and action mechanism regarding an IPR case in the Supreme Court of India.

Dr. Ashish is currently serving as Assistant Professor in School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) and is also associated with School of Management (SoM), Indian Institute of Technology Mandi. He did his PhD from T A Pai Management Institute, a research centre of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal. After completing PhD, he has worked with Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore as Assistant Professor (Sr. Gr.) in their department of Management. His research work is in the domain of creativity and innovation management and his articles are published in international journals like Personality and Individual Differences, Acta Psychologica, and American Journal of Psychology. He has taught courses on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Services Marketing and Integrated Marketing Communication. Prior to joining Academics, he has also worked as assistant manager (marketing) in Indian Overseas Bank and handled marketing activities of more than 45 branches of the bank under Ludhiana Regional office.