Rate My Professor Sathyan Subbiah

Sathyan Subbiah is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He earned his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras in 1997, his M.S. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2000, and his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006. Prior to joining IIT Madras as an associate professor in 2014, he worked as a manufacturing engineer at Hayes-Lemmerz International in Michigan, at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, and as faculty at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore until 2014. He was promoted to professor at IIT Madras and serves as coordinator of the Extraterrestrial Manufacturing (ExTeM) Research Group.

Subbiah’s research focuses on manufacturing engineering, including fixturing, micro-machining, grinding, polishing, tribo-emissions, graphene exfoliation, diamond coatings, novel manufacturing processes, and space manufacturing in microgravity environments. He teaches courses such as Modelling and Simulation in Manufacturing and Automation in Manufacturing. His awards include the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 2012 and the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Science Mentorship Programme in Singapore in 2008. Selected publications include works on nano texture generation in single point diamond turning (2014), formation of carbon nanoscrolls during mechanical exfoliation (2014), and effects of edge angles on burrs in micro-milling (2012). He has contributed to research on low-cost graphene production methods and leads efforts in in-situ resource utilization technologies for extraterrestrial applications.