Dr. Mihir Chauhan is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Nirma University, where he has been serving since 2008. He earned his BE in Mechanical Engineering (2005), ME in CAD/CAM (2007), and PhD from Nirma University (2016). His academic contributions include two granted patents, numerous international publications, and the supervision of PhD research in Robotics. He also leads several funded research projects supported by Nirma University and external agencies. His research interests include Soft Robotics, Stress Analysis of Composite Materials, Reconfigurable Mechanisms, Bioinspired Robotics, and the Dynamics of Mechanical Systems.
Dr. Chauhan is presently affiliated with Florida Atlantic University, USA, as an Associate Graduate Research Professor in the Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department (2023–2028). Earlier, he also served as an Adjunct Faculty at FAU in 2022 as part of a faculty exchange program. He is the Faculty Advisor of Team Nirma Robocon, India’s most successful Robocon team, with 11 national championships and multiple international accolades, including 7th place in 2021 and 3rd place in 2022 at the ABU Robocon International.
He also mentors Team Nirma AUV, which has achieved national titles at AMU ROV in both 2023 and 2024, and won Second Prize at SAUVC 2025 in Singapore. Additionally, he has been Faculty Advisor of the Mechanical Engineering Students’ Association (MESA) since 2010, actively promoting student-driven academic and technical initiatives.
