Santhakumar Mohan received his Ph.D. (Robotics and Control) from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (India) in 2010. From 2012 to 2018, he worked as a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore. In 2018, he joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Palakkad. He holds visiting faculty positions at IISc Bangalore, India, RWTH Aachen, Germany, and ECN, France. His active research areas include underwater vehicle control, underwater manipulator design and control, parallel robotic platforms, assistive robots, and dynamic modeling and control of dynamic systems. Furthermore, he received the award for outstanding young scientist for the year 2014 from the Korea Robotics Society, EMARO+ fellowship (2018-19), and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2016–17).