MODSIM21 Replay Deep Dive Panel Discussion Drive Faster Innovation with Modeling Simulation

KR 2021-10-28

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Panel

	Saurabh Bahuguna is currently a Technical Specialist for Motors & Power Electronics Structures at General Motors. Saurabh provides technical leadership and guidance for the analysis required to develop and validate new products in his current role. Saurabh is also responsible for setting the strategic technical vision for the team leading to new analysis capability development. Saurabh has over 20 years of experience providing technical leadership in a variety of roles and simulation domains. Supporting this is a solid educational background with a PhD in Engineering Mechanics. @SB
	Harald Hasselblad, a Senior Analysis Engineer, is located at the Weight Management and Optimization team at Volvo Cars. He is responsible for corporate weight strategies and driving an Optimization Culture Arena, supporting an optimization-driven process and CAE-CAD integrated development. The arena aims to support the development and implementation of methods and tools for efficient engineering and optimization in the concept and project phases. It also coordinates a national network between OEMs and universities in Sweden. As an industrial PhD student at Volvo Cars, focusing on topology optimization, Harald received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Linköping University, Sweden. Working at Volvo Cars now for 20 years, Harald’s expertise lies within conceptual analysis and optimization and working with development methods and tools for structural optimization. @HH
	Chad Jackson is the Chief Analyst and CEO of Lifecycle Insights. He leads the company’s research and thought leadership programs, attends and speaks at industry events, and reviews emerging technology solutions. Chad’s twenty-five-year career has focused on improving executives’ ability to reap value from technology-led engineering initiatives during the industry’s transition to smart, connected products. @CJ
	Derek Jordanou-Bailey is a Chief Engineer at Integral Powertrain Ltd. Derek has technical responsibility for defining and delivering several electric powertrain projects for his customers. He graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1991 with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and in 1995 from the University of Warwick with a Master’s degree in Engineering and Business Management. Engineering simulation has always been an essential part of Derek’s design workflow. Derek supports his designers to deliver their own ‘fast-loop’ simulations as a prerequisite to more specialized downstream simulation work.
	Joseph Lacey is a Sr. Principal Mechanical Engineer at GE Healthcare with more than 50 patents issued. Joe is an expert in electronics cooling & packaging design, precision temperature control design, system design optimization, and precision tolerance mechanical designs. Joe’s specialties are within the design of thermal control systems, CT collimator design, medical electronics packaging, clean sheet of paper design, and the design of Anesthesia vaporizers. @JL

Moderators

	Manohar Prabhu is Director of Technical Sales, CATIA Concept Engineering at Dassault Systèmes. Prabhu has more than 20 years of experience working on several projects with various automotive OEMs and engineering companies globally in engineering and management. He is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) and recipient of the German Academic Exchange scholarship (DAAD) to continue the Master's degree at the Technical University of Berlin. Prabhu started his professional career at SFE GmbH, an SMB in Berlin, Germany, as an Applications Engineer to become the VP for the North American business and later the Managing Director of SFE. After its acquisition by Dassault Systèmes, Prabhu successfully managed the merge and integration of SFE GmbH with Dassault Systèmes. @MP
	Dhiraj Nahar has a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and an MBA from the University of Rhode Island. He has been with Dassault Systèmes for the last 17 years. Over the years, he has worked in several roles, from software development to supporting our WW customers with Dassault Systèmes integrated modeling and simulation (MODSIM) solutions. Dhiraj and his team work with customers from different industries, understand their As-Is processes and create solutions to help them design robust and reliable products. They help the customers to deploy these processes in multiple departments and across all design programs. They democratize the engineering design processes using the integrated modeling and simulation environment on the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Dhiraj has worked for several years in the United States and is now settled in Pune, India. @DN

Manohar Prabhu is Director of Technical Sales, CATIA Concept Engineering at Dassault Systèmes.
Prabhu has more than 20 years of experience working on several projects with various automotive OEMs and engineering companies globally in engineering and management. He is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) and recipient of the German Academic Exchange scholarship (DAAD) to continue the Master's degree at the Technical University of Berlin.

Prabhu started his professional career at SFE GmbH, an SMB in Berlin, Germany, as an Applications Engineer to become the VP for the North American business and later the Managing Director of SFE. After its acquisition by Dassault Systèmes, Prabhu successfully managed the merge and integration of SFE GmbH with Dassault Systèmes.

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Dhiraj Nahar has a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and an MBA from the University of Rhode Island. He has been with Dassault Systèmes for the last 17 years. Over the years, he has worked in several roles, from software development to supporting our WW customers with Dassault Systèmes integrated modeling and simulation (MODSIM) solutions.

Dhiraj and his team work with customers from different industries, understand their As-Is processes and create solutions to help them design robust and reliable products. They help the customers to deploy these processes in multiple departments and across all design programs. They democratize the engineering design processes using the integrated modeling and simulation environment on the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Dhiraj has worked for several years in the United States and is now settled in Pune, India.

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