Dr. Santosh Kumar Sahu is Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, VIT-AP University, in addition to A.P. Secretariat, Amaravati 522237, Andhra Pradesh, India. He completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the NERIST (A CFTI), India. He recently led the project titled "Fabrication of graphene reinforced shape memory polymer nanocomposite for smart actuation-based soft robotic hand using 4D printing". He has published 60 papers in various journals, and serves as a editorial board member at Scientific Reports, Springer. His teaching disciplines include machine design, mechanics of materials, and composite materials and his interests include composite materials, polymer nanocomposites, AI/ML in composite materials, multiscale modeling of composite materials, tribology of composite materials.