Appuu Kuttan KK is Director, Mauluna Azad National institute of Technology, Bhopal (M.P.), India. Earlier he was Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NITK, Surathkal. Twenty Ph.D students have completed their degree under his guidance. He has published more than one hundred papers in international and national journals and conferences. He has thirty years of teaching and 25 years of research experience. His areas of interest are Robotics, Turbomachines, Mechatronics, Finite Element Method and Control Engineering.