Bhaskar Dasgupta is associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He received his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1997. His ever-expanding research interests include topics in robotics such as serial and parallel manipulators, and motion planning methods; as well as nonlinear optimization, domain mapping, geometric modelling and protein docking. In his spare time, he takes a zealous interest in languages, literature, history and philosophy.