Resume_Koustubh Rao

KOUSTUBH J RAO

**** ** ****** ****, ***# J*** * Gainesville, FL 32608

Phone: 352-***-****

Email: ********.****@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Obtain a job at a reputed company which requires application of my work and research experience, good organizational abilities and interpersonal skills.

EDUCATION

Masters of Science at University of Florida at Gainesville

Mechanical Engineering - graduating in May 09 (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

Bachelor of Technology at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati

Mechanical Engineering - July 02 to May 06 (GPA: 3.3/4.0)

• Secured above 99.9th percentile in CET and IIT–JEE 2002 (national level entrance examinations).

WORK EXPERIENCE

May 08 – Aug 08, Robotics Engineer, FANUC Robotics America, Rochester Hills, MI

• Developed many picking, packing and palletizing workcells based on customer requirements for the M430iA/2F and R2000iB robots. Implemented infeed and outfeed conveyer tracking using PickTool and the vision processes using iRVision

• Developed customized food grippers (mechanical and vacuum) and improved designs of existing food grippers to obtain better throughputs (initial modelling done using SolidWorks)

• Created many virtual workcells and simulations for system integrators and customers using PickPRO and PalletPRO for varied material handling applications

Aug 08 – Jan 09, Senior Programmer, Human Motor Performance Lab, VA, Gainesville

• Develop MATLAB codes for processing of bio-mechanical data from motion capture systems

Oct 06 – July 07, Software Engineer, DASSAULT Systems (Delmia), Bangalore, INDIA

• Developed and maintained the DELMIA V5 Software based on customer requirements

RESEARCH

Aug 07 – present, Research Assistant, SAMM Lab, UF, Gainesville

• Designing a dynamic fixturing device to be incorporated into mesoscale machine tool systems.

• The results were presented at the 2008 International Manufacturing Science And Engineering Conference (MSEC2008) in a paper titled “Active Fixturing for Mesoscale Manufacturing systems: Fixel design alternatives”

• Designing, prototyping and manufacturing a middle ear prosthesis for replacing damaged ossicles (a provisional patent has been obtained for the proposed designs)

• Different embodiments were modelled using ProE and stress analysis done using ANSYS

July 06 – Oct 06, Research Intern, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Deakin University, Australia

• Designed and modeled a 5 DOF Robotic arm using SolidWorks software

• Force analysis, torque analysis and Inverse kinematics done using IGRIP software

Aug 05 – May 06, Senior Project, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, INDIA

• Parallelized FE Analysis of composite laminates on Distributed Memory system using domain decomposition

May 05 – July 05, Summer Intern, Laboratorio di Automazione Industriale, University of Cassino, Italy

• Developed C-codes to achieve kinematic control of a platoon of autonomous “Khepera II” robots

• The results were presented in the paper “Preliminary Experiments of Formation Control using the Null-Space based Behavioral Control” at the 8th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, Italy, 2006.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Programming Languages: C/ C++, LISP

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/2000/Me/XP/Vista, DOS, LINUX

Software Packages: ProE, SolidWorks, IGRIP, MATLAB, Solid Edge, ANSYS, MS Office

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