Professor Amaresh Chakrabarti is a Senior Professor and current Chairman for Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. An Honorary Fellow of Institution of Engineering Designers, He is the co-author of DRM, a Design Research Methodology, which is now used widely as framework for design research. He founded IDeASLab – India's first Design Observatory, co-intiated India's first Smart Factory Lab and also heads IISc-TCS Innovation Lab, IISc Press, and Springer International Book Series on Design Science & Innovation. He received Careers360 Faculty Research Award 2018 for being the 'Most Outstanding Researcher' in Decision Sciences.