Expert Areas : Advanced Manufacturing, Modern Machining, Additive Manufacturing, Tissue Engineering, Micro Machining, and automated machine development
Dr. Ankit Sharma presently holds the Associate Director (Research) position at the Centre for Research Impact & Outcome (CRIO) Department of Chitkara University, Punjab, India. He is also heading/publisher of the international peer-reviewed Chitkara journals/Chitkara University Publications. His admiring communication and relationship-building capabilities have always focused on the progress of his organization. He received his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Punjab, India.
Dr. Sharma is an enthusiastic teacher who embraces student-focused approaches in his teaching, providing real-time learning to his students. He is a passionate researcher with diversified research interests in manufacturing, medical devices, modern machining processes, additive manufacturing, tissue engineering, and not limited to that. He has published more than 55 scientific articles in various peer-reviewed reputed top-notch journals, conferences, and books in Manufacturing and Materials.
Dr. Sharma is the founder and General Chair-Convenor of the annual flagship international conference-ICEMSMCI (International Conference on Emerging Materials, Smart Manufacturing, Computational Intelligence 2023, 2024 & 2025. He has also been organizing several other international Conferences such as the International Conference on Advanced Materials Sustainable Future (ICAMSF) 2025. He has chaired various international conferences in the domain of advanced manufacturing & materials. He has delivered several seminars, and keynote talks on international (USA, China, India) platforms and awarded with best research paper awards.
He is currently doing consultancy with the health industry by developing biomedical device manufacturing machines. He has also delivered numerous invited industrial keynotes while addressing various topics related to smart manufacturing.
Dr. Sharma is working on research commercialization and filed more than 30 patents. He also granted 4 international patents in his account along with 18+ granted patents. He contributed to interdisciplinary research, particularly where engineering and global burning issues related to the health, and manufacturing sectors intersect.
Dr. Sharma edited/authored 5 books, serving as a Series editor of Taylor and Francis, Elsevier and ASME books. He is also serving as a guest editor and editorial bodies of several reputed SCI, ESCI, Scopus indexed international peer-reviewed Journals.
Publications
Book Series
1. Book Series Title: Innovations in Smart Manufacturing for Long-Term Development and Growth, Editors: Ankit Sharma (India), Atul Babbar (India), Yu (Roger) Dong (Australia), Gursel Alici (Australia), Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis
Books under the series
2. Book Series Title: Next Generation Manufacturing Processes. Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME). Official Website: https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/DocumentLibrary/ASME_Press_Flyer_CFB_Manufacturing_Processes_V3.pdf
3. Book Series Title: Advances in Welding Technology and Joining Processes. Editors: Ankit Sharma (India), K K Saxena (India), Milos Djukic (Serbia), Esther Akinlabi (UK). Publisher: Elsevier
Books Edited
*Corresponding author, #Equal contribution
Book Chapter Published
Editorial Positions
Field of Specialisation
Manufacturing processes, Modern machining, Metrological instruments, Additive manufacturing processes
Training programs conducted
S. no. | Project Title | Industry Name |
1. | Automatic Gluing and Pasting Machine | Tynor Orthotics Pvt. Ltd., India |
2. | Electric Pole Erection & Dismantling Machine | JMD Infra, Electrical Contractor, Government of Haryana, India |
Awards:
Year | Awards/Achievements | Awarding organization |
2022 | Best Research paper Award | International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Punjab, India. |
2022 | Best Research paper Award | International Conference on AMMT-2022, India. |
2018 | Best Research paper Award | International Conference on Engineering Materials Metallurgy & Manufacturing, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
2022 | Session Chair | International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Technology, India |
2012 | All India Rank: 406 | Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE*) qualified in Production Engineering administered by IIT *GATE qualification rate is 18.80 % in India |
Patents:
Title | Date of Filling | Application no | Filing Agency |
Apparatus for controlling movement of vehicle | 12 July 2020 | 202011053210 Published | Indian Patent Office, India |
3 D printing of Cost Effective Human skull Models and Skull Implants | 2 April 2021 | 2021101703 Granted | IP Australia, Australian Government |
Portable dual sided scrap crushing device: manually operated | 17 August 2021 | 2021105724 Granted | IP Australia, Australian Government |
A Solar panel & Wind turbine-based hybrid energy storage system | 20 August 2021 | 2021106227 Granted | IP Australia, Australian Government |
Apparatus for controlling movement of vehicle | 3 July 2021 | 2021103855 Granted | IP Australia, Australian Government |
Single touch lever brake for the manual rickshaw | 05 November 2020 | 334845-001 Granted | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Triangular shape fastener tool | 15 January 2021 | 337462-001 Granted | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Liquid Spray Bottle with Corner Refilling Attachment | 16 February 2021 | 339172-001 Granted | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Single leg frame based special bin for goods collection | 25 July 2021 | 346931-001 Granted | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Single leg based well-grounded seating bench | 27 July 2021 | 346930-001 Granted | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Smart bolted auto-lock’ for doors/windows | 8 July 2021 | 346932-001 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
‘Flexible holder device’ for carrying phone during travelling | 8 Sep 2021 | 349525-001 Granted | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Pharmaceutical smart bottle with pills carrier chamber | 8 Sep 2021 | 349527-001 Granted | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
‘Smart conical fries’ box’ with two dip pockets attached: For carrying sauces | 8 Sep 2021 | 349684-001 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Screw driver tool attachment: for screws & nails fastening at three different locations simultaneously | 9 Nov 2021 | 352812-001 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Comfy virtual hand Apparatus: For baby sleep comfort | 14 Oct 2021 | 353406-001 Granted | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
“Drilling attachment tool”: for making holes at four different locations simultaneously | 30 Oct 2021 | 352382-001 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Toroidal winding machine | 13 Nov 2021 | 353060-001 Granted | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Dual functional ‘seed remover & fruit cutter’ device | 22-Nov-2021 | 353685-001 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Portable Storage Container cum Tap attachment’ with RO water purifier filter device | 11-Feb-2022 | 357904-001 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Handy ‘Finger sanitizing device’ | 19-Apr-2022 | 362753-001 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Smart face mask: Fastened with spectacles | 5-May-2022 | 363752-001 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Hammer with screw-threaded handle: To use multi-shape heads | 10-July-2022 | 367936-001 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Bottle with trio corner boxes: To carry tangible materials | 12-Aug-2022 | 369153-001 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Smart water bottle: With minerals intake monitoring feature | 1-Sep-2022 | 370075-001 Granted | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Pharmacy Vending Machine | 12- Nov-2022 | DES0471 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Smart Attachment for Holding Screw Jack’s Rotational Handle | 7-Dec-2022 | DES0578 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Spectacles embedded wiper | 4-Jan-2024 | 425476-001 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Flexible Cable Hanger | 04-Nov-2023 | 399212-001 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Weight Carrying Apparatus | 02-Aug-2024 | 425591-001 | Indian Design Office (IDO), India |
Industry
1.5 years, Junior Engineer Trainee-Manufacturing of power generation devices such as Pressure vessel, Boiler & Heat exchangers, ISGEC Heavy Engineering Ltd, Haryana, India(2007 – 09).
Teaching
At various engineering colleges (2014 till today)